Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-10
!sjttin9s From. the Kitchen Fire.
MRS. ANNIE L. JACK.

MRS. ANNIE L. JACK.
It is one of the problems of domestic
economy in hearth and home consulta-
ton, +" How can we save time?" and yet
we 90 on, wasting the precious hours
over things of little moment, and neglect
more import duties or pleasures. often
hear ladies' say in the short days of win
ter, {" It seems as if we do nothing but
cook, the days are so short!" and yet
they make no effort to change the order
of things. NV own household is regulat-
ed by the fact that five hours Of the day
are spent in the scloolroom, where [ am
teacher to the merry group; and in the
intermission at noon, we take 'lunch-as
the children would do if they attended
the district-school. This, if practiced in
many houses when the children come
home at four in the afternoon, would
leave whole day for the duties of the
household, and the united family csuld
enjoy five o'clock dinner to the gratifi-
cation Of the children, whose plate "kept
over is often burnt and tasteless re-
minder of the dinner the have missed.
In the matter of cooking, too, am Of
ten struck with the fact that women, in
their housewives pride, spend too much
energy on their preparations for COM
pany tea, in rural place. How many of
us have hardly found time to sip our tea,
between eating our bread and butter, for
the added duty of passing cake to our
neighbors! Not long ago, taking tea at
the house of a very near and dear friend,
I was called upon to sympathize with her
tor the misfortune of having g no time to
read" The secret was revealed to me
when found myself afterwards passing
around to those whose plates %ere almost
laden with good things nine kinds OF
cake, all home made. What skill, energy
what time such a work required! How
toothsome each delicate morsel! what ar
amount Of labor expended! Reader, I
like cake, but should feel it the dryes
Of sawdust if it robbed me Of my time fol
mental improvement. With all the Other
condiments, no sensible person needs
such choice of cake, and I feel as if
we're considered a gourmand when l fine
it displayed before me. The simpl,
elegance of tea~table is not in overload
ing, but in the bright, CHEEKY, well-kep
furnishings with a full supply of what
ever udlHCy ulSu Is SET DclOre use.
Speaking of domestic economy in re
gard to time, am often called upon t
notice the prejudice against labor-savin!
machines for aoomen, that prevails anon,
farmers who procure (and rightly, too,
everything to aid farm work. How man
of you can claim as your kitchen aids,
washer and wringer, clothes sprinkle
and mangle, apple parer and corer, potat
peeler and slicer, syllabub churn an
raisen stoner, first-class egg heater an
carpet sweeper2 And yet all these thing
would not cost as much as the threshin
machine SO necessary to a farmer VIII
g does not like to be considered behind ii
4 times. I'VE too often work on in til
primitive way, using our old implement
as the farmer might his old fail. B,
t is it economy when time is so precious
Just as think of changing the subie,
J, of my 'siftings.'' one of the crowd com,
e in with half a dozen new-laid eggs,whic
Y he is eager for me to count. I make
:, rule, as eggs get scarce in winter to gi,
: the children IAN apple for an egg" ar
it is surprising bow faithfully they a
: gathered and kept in count. As an artic
of diet we value them highly, and ev