Worth While For Women To Know

People are content to understand very little of the conditions of comfort in houses. The question of health may be left to the care of physicians, and that of beauty to the arohitect, but one would suppose on matters of comfort, each one would look out for himself. There is exou8e for this negleot in business men, who are hardly at home long enough to know whether a house is tenable or not ; but is it not strange that women will endure damp, foul odors, smoke and dust, year after year, without trying to remove the uuisances'r' The only idea most women have of suppressing any evil of the sort is to " send for a man to fix it." Workmen are not always to be had, and, if they are, cost money, and a breach of comfort may last years before everything comes together for ita mending. A woman needs both muscle and management to take oare of a family, unless she oan afford to pay a third of her income for these things in others. The clever woman is an actual acquaintance, who goes about her house, spying a loóse knob here and screwing it up, springing with her light plane to smooth down a door that sticks in the oasing, fitting a neat strip to prevent a window's rattling, besides papering, painting, and varnishing with more nicety than one mechanic out of a dozen. Such a woman is worthy to be called a house-mother, after the jood Germán word. How can a woman livfi, year after year, within four walls and not grow fond of them, and seek to add to their comfort. - Harper's Bazar.