Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-05
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HOME HINTS.

HOME HINTS.
One of the first things young housekeeper
should learn is system. Without it every
thing goes wrong, and the harassed worker IS
found at the end Of the week with more work
than she can "see through" and she wishes
that there we're more days that she might &C.
complish it all.
Have your washing done Monday, if the
thing is possible. One scarcely ever feels so
bright and active on Monday morning as on
any other day of the week. Is it because the
day of rest is taken too literally? think 80.
If the day is not fair the clothes can be
kept in the water until it is, and look all the
: better for it. How much more satisfaction
there is in tub of clean clothes than in
basketful of soiled ones. The colored gar
ments may wait. There will be less to do
when the fair day does come, if this plan is
resorted to. How lost we feel on Monday
or Tuesday when the washing is waiting. We
cannot seem to find much to do. If we have
not washed then we cannot iron or mend. If
we do it on Tuesday, then there is baking to
do also, and this is altogether too much to DO
in one day. We are young, and are equal to
it, certainly. Yet the consequences are a
waste instead of a gain of time, for after an
unusually hard days work, nature will be re-
venged, and we are too weary to do more than
is actually necessary the next day.
Do not try to wash the floors the same day
you wash, either. No matter if you have the
water hot and the floor stopped. And anoth-
er thing, do not hang ou: the clothes in cold
or windy weather until you are cool and free
from perspiration. Many woman has caught
her death from want of caution in this respect.
After two or three hours in hot room filled
with steam, bent over tub of steaming suds,
and then rush into the cold air and exposed
for fifteen or twenty minutes, is enough to
ruin the best constitution in the world.
You want the clothes out early because
Mrs. A. or Mrs. B. has hers out and you like
to have your neighbors see that you are
"smart." In many rural neighborhoods there
are little tscit rivalries going on continually
The housekeeper hurries and rushes all the
morning to have her. clothes out before hel
neighbors. This may seem foolish to our
male friends, but it is true, and hel ps wonder
fully to get the work done expeditiously, too
But never mind if you are late about it,
don't risk your health in this way. No won
der you always feel cold and "shiver" after
washing. A Turkish bath may be good
thing in its way, but there is always a eau
ton attached to be careful of undue exposure
to cold afterward. Your wash.room and y oul
work in the hot steam is very much like an
impromptu Turkish bath.
I have seen smart housekeepers with only
little scarf, or cloud, over their heads
without gloves and even with. sleeves rolled
above the elbows, out in the coolest weather
hanging the clothes. Better wait until af
ternoon, if by thus waiting you may avoid
cold that, in many similar cases, has termina'
ted disastrously.
If the washing is done Monday, then you
have all the week in which to do the iron
ing and mending Iron Tuesday, if you are
not too tired and haven't too much baking
to do. There is nothing in housework that
is so annoying as to have the ironing and
mending to de at the end Of the week, when
there is always so much to do. Keep yous
work ahead of you. A good adage this -
Better drive your work than to have it drive
you.
Another thing. Every one can put the
house in order, but it is neat housekeeper
that keeps it so. You have your floors
clean, then be careful about spilliug water
on them, and place a mat at the door, and
hint to John that it is put there to wipe the
feet upon 1t is back breaking work, at
the best, to scrub floors. Many Of our read
ers, we are glad to think, do not have it to do,
but there are many more who have, and
what is more, do it oftener than necessary.
1t is easier to wipe slop, or few muddy
tracks before they are dried, than to wash
the whole floor.
Then after the sitting room carpet is nicely
swept, the furniture busted, and everything
"picked up," try to keep it so. While you
are sewing in there, keep your shreds in lit
tie basket or box, or have your parlor rag
bag hanging near. If you haven't wall
pocket make one out of cardboard to put
your papers in, and make one of those "cost'
nothing book-shelves," to put the heavier
books and magazines on, and keep them Oh
the table.
might go on ad infnitum, but these few
hints if acted upon, will do as we'll as long
sermon. Housekeepers work hard, but
when the office of mother is added thereto
the labor is very much greater. Why not
employ the children in these little things
that are so necessary, yet withal so very
tiresome? They are quick to learn. If the
work has been done we'll, praise judiciously
bestowed will not harm the child one half
80 much as a scoldng, which would advise
all mothers to think twice before bestowing.
If it is done badly, be careful that the de.
feet is pointed out in manner that will
not discourage him from ever again attempt
ing it, Do not we keep too great distance
between ourselves and them? Remember we
are "ouly children Of a larger growth
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