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EASY HOUSEKEEPING

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ACCOMPLISHED BY APPLYING BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.

A System That Secsrei From Each Prompt Performance of Duties—One Woman Who Applied Military Methods to Her Household and Made Them Work.

Executive ability is knowing how to distribute responsibility so that every factor not only accepts its share of duty, but continues unfailingly to do it. Persistent pursuit of this course makes the victorious general and the successful business man as well as the satisfactory housekeeper.

I do not believe, however, that there is one woman in a thousand who ever stops to contemplate this fact. Every one of the number wonders, though, why keeping house is the very hardest work in the world. And men with well disciplined offices who are able to reduce their individual labor to a minimum they regard envyingly. They persuade themselves that women's work is so peculiarly intricate and exacting that it refuses to bo reduced to simple rules and principles. Yet if all those uneasy, overburdened Marthas could only take a few practical lessons in a well ordered counting room they would soon solve the problem which causes them such painful wrestling.

Able business men who accomplish results are those who know how to make other people feel the importance of the trust imposed upon them, and as ninetenths of mankind spend their best efforts in dodging responsibility there is us much roai gt-uius in stimulating a sense of it in one's employees as in actually achieving things oneself.

There is, I know, a superstition extant to the effect that a good housewife is a busy, bustling person—one always active and alert, who follows up her servants and never relaxes her vigilance from dawn till bedtime. She is not supposed to take chances on anything, but goes herself from garret to cellar daily, peers into every closet, hunts eagerly for dust, takes constant account of storeroom, pantry and kitchen and keeps a penetrating eye upon the entiro menage. If man's work is from suu to sun, while woman's work is never done, tho fault is every bit her own. The reason man can define his hours of toil and rest so sharply is because he knows when and where and how to put in strokes that tell also he knows how to make those who work with and under him directly answerable for their share of the labor.

Now, the case of a woman haviug several small children and only one or two maids with which to keep the house. Properly managed the result should be leisure for the mistress, discipline for the maids and comfort for everybody. But nine times out of ten the chance system is in vogue. Servants are given general instructions, but they are quick to appreciate that tho mistress expects to shoulder all the real responsibility herself. She means to rely upon her own vigilance rather than their fidelity for the execution of the daily tasks. Realizing this, they get in the habit of depending on her prodding to remind them of the simplest duties.

It is this spirit in the household that makes drudges of the employer, who is only given eyo service and finds her domestic machinery runs with many a creak and groan.

As there Is always a right way and wrong way to do everything, a little clever management conducts a home on the same principles precisely as those which regulate a counting house. But the little 10-year-old daughter whose business it is to strip withered leaves and blossoms from the plants, change the water in the vases and attend to the bedroom candlesticks must be held unswervingly to her duty. She must be taught at once that the whole family relies upon her for the faithful discharge of those tasks. Mamma must never do them for her, and thus lessen either the sense of responsibility or the force of condemnation when she is guilty-of neglect.

These principles should be rigidly enforced With every factor in the household. There should be no trespassing of ono person's work on another. Most women declare it much easier to do things them selves than to follow up a careless maid. But the really clever mistress knows better. She finds a way of making the servant answerable for her mistakes and continually satisfactory in the performance of her tasks.

A bright woman whose soul has sickenod within her by reason of domestic irregularities worked out the following system, which provod delightfully simple and entirely efficacious. She had, it seems, been present once at a military inspection and was much impressed by the quick, businesslike manner in which the examination was conducted. After watching tho officer inspcot each soldier in turn as to his personal cleanliness, arms, etc., sho concluded that something of tho satno sort might with advantage be applied to her domestic management.

Full of this Idea, the clever little mistress prepared two lists—-ope for a morn ing drill, the other for afternoon parade. On the first was set dowa in order eaqh particular household chore that should be properly done before noon, and each day at

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was called out for inspection. First came tho nursemaid, marshaling her charges and ready to show a row of neatly polished boots, clean, pink palms, white, well brushed teeth and sleek, shining heads. The iwUter of buttons, garters, linger nails, etc., was well looked into, and theu the order to break ranks given.

The housemaid reported lamps cleaned, dusting done, wlridows washed, and the stock of polishes, soaps and other requirements of her department that were needed or on hand. As tho list of her tasks were set down in detail, there was never any danger of glossing the.inoveror forgott!ng to enumerate them. Unless all the chamber work was completed J?y that hour a satisfactory explanation \*s required before the girl could be excused.

Living In the country, as she did, it was in the management of bor kitchen, however, that the lady found this book so great a comfort. Neat columns of kitchen necessities jogged her memory as to the thousand and one little pantry details the lack of which never intrude themselves until the day's marketing is done. Cook reported dishcloths washed and drying on the line, when the chickens were fed, cows milked, and on ad infinitum.

As at 11 o'clock, so at 4 p. m. ait after* noon parade developed the condition of all domestic affairs. By that time the drudgery of the day should be don®, and just as men begin winding up their business for the night so this wise ladfy passed her household in review and knew to a dot exactly how everything stood.—St. Lotils Republic.

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NEGROES IN THE DISTRICT.

They Want the Suffrage Restored Because They Charge Discrimination.

At the next session of congress a monster petition will be presented by Representative Murray of South Caroliua, the only colore man in either house, praying for the restoration of the rights of political suffrage in the District of Columbia. It will be signed by a majority of the negroes of tho District, headed by Frederick Douglass and ex-Senator Bruoe. This move grows out of the refusal of the commissioners of the District to appoint a colored man as one of the members of the board of assessors recently created by aot of congress. The colored men had an applicant in the person of Daniel A. Murray, an assistant in tho congressional library and a member of the board of trade. Frederick Douglass especially interested himself in behalf of Mr. Murray, but the board refused to appoint him. The colored people made a stubborn fight for the aasessorship, and now that that has been denied them no offices are left, and they propose to memorialize congress for the restoration of the right of suffrage in the District.

When the suffrage was iu vogue in the District, the negroes were an important factor in the government,, mad a part of tho patronage was accorded them. There was a negro assistant district attorney, a tax registrar aud a city marshal, and other lucrative offices were filled by them. But with abolition of the right of suffrage they have been cut off one by one until the assessorship was the only place filled by a negro. Now even that has been taken away. Frederick Douglass says that the government of the District is an oligarchy, and it is a wonder to him that the people have tolerated it as long as they have. Under its present form of government he thinks it impossible for the 85,000 colored people to get any civil or political recognition. He says the trend is now against the negro, but that a reaction will speedily s^ in.

The sentiments of Mr. Douglass are indorsed by other prominent colored citizens of the District, vho say that if they tire not successful in their move they will at least let the world know they feel keenly the discrimination on account of color in the government of the District. The pastors of all the local churches are in favor of the movement, and the petitions will be plaoed at the several churches from Sunday to Sunday for signatures.—Washington Cor. New York Sun.

SEVENTEEN YEAR LOCUSTS.

Interesting Account of Some of Their Doings During Their Late Visit.

The 17 year locusts, about which the newspapers printed so many articles during the early part of the summer, have come and gone, but their united labors have left quite an impress upon the forest scenery. In many places about New York the oaks and other trees exhibit a great many broken branches, the leaves of which have withered, and as a consequence the woodland scenes show in checkered spots a late autumnal brown.

In old times, before the advent of the white man with his ax, no doubt this periodical pruning of the fewest did not do any harm, but in these later days, when the locusts extend their attentions to everything that has 1a large enough stem to oontain their eggs—to the peach, the pear and the apple trees, to the currant and gooseberry bushes—his estimate of their wide utility is lost in his-oonsid-eration of the orchard that has already been pruned.

The eggs of the locusts were found this summer in over 70 kinds of trees, bushes and herbaceous plants. Indeed the females tried th«ir ovipositors on everything that came in their way, often apparently by way of experiment

The distribution of the locusts Into OQlonies was interesting. They occupied by the million many hills and patches of woodland that seemed to differ in no respect from neighboring tracts where they were not so numerous. In one of these colonies on Staten Island the ground about the tree trunks was BO oovered by the pupa shells that it was in places completely hidden, and as the season wore on the dead locusts had to be raked up. as they gave forth an unpleasant odor. At dusk the sound of the many insects crawling from the ground up the tree trunks was quite audible—a constant tramping—and particularly vigorous pup® sometimes asoended the trees to a height of 80 feot

The severe storm that prevailed in the latter part of May killed and deformed many locusts just then emerging from tho ground and also damaged the young leaves on the easterijyides of exposed trees. In point of rj^atation this storm also did tho locus fa harm, for it was no uncommon matter to hear them accused of causing the withered condition of the leaves, even before they had commenoed to lay any eggs. —Cor. New York Post.

Who Will Go to Chlnaf

The oasbieWff the Second National bank of Alteon a, Pa, has gone to Japan, carrying away a heavy bale of the assets of that institution, possibly with the intention of helping out the island people financially in their present crisis. To make things even some other cashier ought to run away to China with alike amount to bolster up •he fiscal system of the pigtails. It would be hard on tho home depositor, but that type of cashier is superior to such narrow and local interests. The case presents a variety of considerations, as the last tone of the kind did and the next one will, bat it seems useless to enlarge upon them. New York Tribune.

Human Nature,

Samuel Gonipors sixes up human nature in this way: "The more the wageworker gets the more he will want We are just like other people. You will find that tl« man who earns $1 a day aspires to $*. 10, the man who has half a million wants a million, and the man who has §50,000,000 wants the earth."

«V«.-WMLS OF THFC PLUTOCRACY,

Mushroom Aristocraey Is the Proper Ob ject of Intelligent Contempt.

About a year ago a scandal in the As tea family kept the tongue of gossip btuy for the season. The oonduot of Mrs. Coleman Drayton, a daughter of tho house of Astor, caused her separation from her husband. Attempts to rehabilitate her in society have failed, and she has taken up her permanent residence in Europe. I

The existing Vanderbilt soandal is caused by improprieties on the part of a male member of the family. He is said to have been nagged into revolt against his home by the imperious petulance and offensive social airs of his wife, a poor bnt proud beauty and belle of aristocratic southern birth, who said at the time of her nuptials that, as between blood and money, it was condescension on her part to marry the riohest man in the United States.

The peouliar filth which made the Astor and Vanderbilt soandals uncommonly nauseous has not adhered, so far as the public knows, to any of the domestic relations of the Gould family. But the stories about them have not been such as to excite envy of their gilded lot, if its harassments and humiliations must be taken as an! inseparable part of the possession, Unbounded wealth is not a specific for niental distress and heartache, and it does not bring honor, obedience ,and troops of friends to the undeserving.

These greater and minor scandals are more notioeable beoause they are blots on a mere upstart aristocracy. Two generations back these families had the most obscure beginnings. The original Astor laid the foundations of his wealth in the sale of minkskins, catching and skinning the minks himself in their habitat along the Mohawk. The original Vanderbilt acquired his first capital in boating garden vegetables from New Jersey across the channel to the New York markets.

This is not to the discredit of the original nor of the present Astors and Vanderbilts. Only men of great minds, great industry and great daring oould have created the immense fortunes which the present Astors and Vanderbilts inherited and which have increased in their hands. But it is ridiculous that the first and second only in descent from these founders of wealth should imagine that its possession makes them a class separated and distant from the people, a peculiar and elevated social rank, the cream of the social mass. Ancient aristocracy, if not degraded by vice, has a traditional title to respect. Mushroom aristocracy is the proper object of intelligent contempt.

That these newly rich people apply their riches to ^nfructifying uses and that some of them live scandalous lives is no justification oMhe theories of communism and anarchy. A dissolute rich man, no more than a virtuous rich man, is the just object of spoliation. &o rob the wealthy and distribute their property or to render its possession insecure is not a proper punishment and is not a cure for the vices, abuses and evils of wealth.

There is another lesson. Not muoh that is the best in life depends on the ownership of wealth. The sturdy virtues in which the best human society is founded are buttressed in the homes of the people—the oommon people, not raised by wealth to invidious elevation above others, and not depressed by poverty below the oomfortable level of everyday life.

The wholesome and reputable classes who live by trade, industry and the professions have no leisure nor disposition for illicit pleasures that are enjoyed in an atmosphere of soandal and bear ultimate fruit in misery. Honest American homes—the homes of the American millions, not of millionaires—are the fortresses of popular virtue, and there the principles of liberty regulated by law are impregnably intrenched.—Chicago Herald.

A NEGLECTED BABE.

The Future King of England Is Being Brought Up on a Bottle and by Servants.

A loyal writer Bfcs been lamenting the undeserved slight oast Opon the Duke of York's baby, who has been left for a full fortnight in sole charge of Mrs. Green, his nurse, in gross disregard of tradition and preoedent Even Queen Victoria, his great-grandmother, who made such a fuss about him when he was born, although within a oouple of hours' journey, has not been to see him sinoe the christening, and now sho has gone off to Scotland. His mother, his four grandparents, his aunts and his numerous cousins were all out of reach, and this baby, who will one day be king and emperor, was entirely among strangers two whole weeks. His mother came back last night, but tho baby will not see much of her, for she starts almost immediately with

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Money Is Tight.

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AFTER THE "EVIL EYE."

The Marquis of Bute Backs the Society For Psyoliicul Research In a Little Flier.

The Society For Psychical Research, at the moment when the supply of ghosts and the society's funds were fall ing short, has had the felicity of find ing anew Sold of inquiry and the money with which to explore it They have to thank the Marquis of Bute for both favors. The m.irqxlis is a solid, solemn, millionaire peor and a devout Catholic who has always taken a languid interest in spooks. 3

Reading recently a newspaper para graph describing a case in the sheriff's court at Oban, in which the defendant Was said to possess "the evil eye," ho wroto to the secretary of the society offering $500 toward the cost of an inquiry into that malignant optic in particular and the questions of second sight and other Scottish superstitions in general.

The society greedily snapped at the offer and forthwith organized an expedition, which is now wandering about Scotland on a lookout for evil eyes, seers, witches and such like. Reliable information as to the progress made has not yet come to hand, probably be cause a selfish reporter who wants to score a beat with a complete story is attached to the expedition, but it is rumored that the Oban defendant with the evil eye was tracked to his lair and gave the investigators a remarkably warm reception, from the effects of which they are still suffering. It is said also that the marquis has been rebuked by his spiritual advisers for dismaying unseemly and premature ouriosity in ghostly things, but that is probably a libel upon his lordship and his chaplains. —London Letter.

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Of Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, whose American blood is mixed with French and English, Mrs. Spofford says in "The Boj?k Buyer:" "When you see her with her lofty carriage, her dark eyes, her high bred and beautiful features, you remember the royal significance of her name in Scripture, and you are half inclined to wonder how it is that a princess of the old regime is writing stories that are the accurate transcript of the lives of peasants. But when, if by rare fortune, you hear her read from her own pages, with a voice like a soft south wind, and with a quaint and lonely air that is all her own, then you know, that these stories of hers are written from the heart that beats for humbler, homelier people as if with the same blood."

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