Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-31


Then put yourfood cooking. Now take
your basket to the pantry and put in it
all the dishes you want on your table,
take it from there to the dining-room
and set your table. Now take it down
cellar bring everything required from
there, and transfer to dishes already on
the table The same basket win serve
you for taking the soiled dishes to the
kitchen and clean ones to the pantry.
When you are going to bake, gather al
things needed upon the kitchen table
let them remain until you have finished,
then take all back and arrange in order,
just try my plan one week, and you will
be surprised at the amount of time and
labor saved
Il will try it, and be very grateful,
too, that / have such a lator-saving,
knowledge-imparting body for my aunt
Now, what else? That is not all the lect-
ure, know"
"No, there is q little more. / notice
that sou get no time to put your dining
and sitting rooms in order till nearly
noon, and if there chance to be caller
you are annoyed by the disorder. Now
suppose you take little time toward
night, make all possible preparations for
breakfast, and in the morning devote the
time usually spent in that way to putting
these rooms to rights. Your breakfast
will be more enjoyable if eaten in a tidy
room, and that over, you can go about
your kitchen.work undisturbed by the
fear of somebody Notifying your pride
by an early call. 1t will be pleasant too
when you leave the kitchen TO sit down
and rest or read q few moments instead
of resorting to broom and duster.
"A few thoughts now about house
cleaning; Don't turn everything upside
down all over the house. Take one room
and finish it before disturbing another.
Don't begin Monday morning at day.
light or before and work till ten O'clock
Saturday night so that Sunday you will
feel too stiff and old TO go to church,
much less to worship God at home. Go
about it quietly, leisurely. Spend only
part of each day cleaning house. Do
whatever else is necessary to render
your family comfortable, home at least
endurable; rest now and then and don't
let the magazines and papers entirely
alone. Suppose you don't get done as
soon as Mrs A., or suppose Mrs. B thinks
you shiftless. They have no right to
judge you. You have perfect right to
do your. own work when and how you
please
"a word too about washing day: Make
your calculations so that you will have
little else TO do. know a lady who in
variably has beans and baked pudding
for dinner because IL is 80 little work to
attend 10 their cooking. l would not
make that a rule, but the principle is
good, worthy of adoption, to be modi-
fed as circumstances and taste may re-
quire.
" Be careful about soiling more clothes
than necessary. The most tidy persons
usually wash fewest clothes.
You need some labor saving ma
chinery. Now don't depend entirely
upon John to get II. BE little more
economical than usual about your own
expenses. Choose less costly dress or
hat, do without that beautiful sash, wear
the old shawl little longer, and you
will soon save enough to purchase what
you need. a# ...-.
(Which washing and necessary work
are done, be satisfied, don't go to scrub
bing or sewing. Ii you think you must
work all the time, choose something easy
and pleasant for the afternoon of wash
ing-day, but don't believe in working
all the time. A woman will accomplish
more in the year If she rests when rest
becomes need than IL she drudges till
completely worn cut, and then Is obliged
to lie down and let some one else run the
machinery OF housekeeping. Hired help
and doctors bills make deep inroads
upon the income of even a prosperous
man.
But, Katie, there Is still stronger
reason, higher motive In applying the
rules of economy 10 our daily work We
have no right TO waste the strength of
either mind or body; no right 10 grow
old faster than nature willis. God has
placed US in this world and given US
work to do. To him VIC arc responsible
for staying here as long as our bodies
can be made TO endure the necessary toll,
to bear the necessary burdens; yea, after
that to wait in enforced idleness, IL il be
His will. We have no more right TO
shorten life and leave It's work un.
finished by unnecessary labor than by
any other means the suicide employs.
A brighter day for womankind Is
dawning and by ito clearer light we can
and ought to more easily discern the path
of duty "--Ars. q. w. French, in Adoocate
and Guardian.