The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-22

lnHue0C0 Cn8L SOW0Q IN Cn0 long ne.
elected garden of his soul the seeds
that make for loving kindness, peace
and good will to men. He lives to-day
"a childless man still--but every
youngster in the village calls him Gun
Gle Cyrus''- no man or woman is
afraid to seek favor at his hands
Springfield Mass. Republican.
Planning Ones WOrk...Conveniences.
That house.keeper may Justly be
credited with ability, and even talent.
who can keep the skein of house-keep-
ing in smoothly-running order through
those summer days, when the heat
weakens and Expresses, when trivial
tasks seem herculean, when washings
accumulate so fast, and work of all
kinds is inclined to drag and get be-
hind. Whoever in the spring and early
summer bore in mind the hot days
coming. and made preparation for the
same-who. before their advent, had
her house cleaned and set in order, her
summers sewing and repairing well
out of the way, and has now left on her
hands only such tasks as are insepara-
able from the hot weather-fruit-can
ming, harvesting, etc.-may count her.
self fortunate, as well as a tolerably
good manager of household affairs.
Whoever, too, in her planning, left a
goodly margin for unexpected tasks.
for those things that cannot be set
down in the regular routine, but are
likely to befall-unexpected company,
sickness, days of intense heat, aud the
languor and inertia consequent. as also
little margin for recreation and rest
will come out from the summers la
bors comparatively we'll and strong;
while those who, through inability or
neglect to plan, have one task continu-
ally crowding another, little more
each day than the day is sufficient for,
and are consequently obliged to keep
up. day in and day out, without re-
spite or rest, will be very likely at the
end of the season to find themselves, if
not absolutely ill, at least tagged, dis
pirited and unstrung.
fortunate who has, particularly through
the heat of summer, suitable rooms and
facilities for her work; who has stove
room apart from her kitchen; and whose
kitchen or work-room is large and airy
and we'll shaded. and as cool and COM
Portable as any room can be through
the midsummer heats. This room
should be furnished with shelves. cup
board. drawers, tables and all other
needful appurtenances. 1t is marvel
Gus how many kitchens or work-rooms
there are which are utterly bare ofthese,
and wholly inconvenient and unsuited
to their use. It is nowise uncommon
to see cook rooms in which the house.
keeper, in her hurry of dinner-getting
or dishing up a meal, is unable to find
so much as spare foot of table or shelf
wherein to set down a coffee-pot or cut
up loaf of bread. The only wonder
is that she can manage her work at all
with such lack of facilities. -'.5!i
1 have for some years had acquaint-
ance with housekeeper who is obliged
to open and shut trap-door every
time she descends into her cellar, which
through the hot weather is of course
many times day. Not only this, but
the stairs are steep and crooked, and
made in such manner as to compel her
to bend her head and twist her body
every time she goes down or comes up,
to escape the timbers above, and this
she has been obliged to put up with for
the last fifteen or twenty years. Oft
en- think, when see her in her home,
that this Inconvenience alone (and she
has many others to contend WITH has
robbed her of months of time, and
doubtless of life also; for she is broken
and feeble, old and infirm, far beyond
her years. The men of that household,
as will be guessed, are of those who
never think it worth their while to plan
or buy anything for the saving of wom-
ans time or strength; who meet with
derision every word of encouragement
or complaint, believing woman's work
at its hardest a mere bagatelle in COM
parison with their own.
But very frequently lack of facili-
ties is more the woman's fault than the
mans. Often the husband is willing
and anxious to provide conveniences
and apparatus, which the wife feels
cannot be afforded, or prefers the
money spent in some other way. Some
times. when girl is kept continually
for the homework, the mistress does
not fully know the need of these-does
not realize how intolera5le the work
room is, with the sun pouring down on
the outside and the heat of the cook
stove within-nor understand how
much time and strength go to the car
rying and cleansing Of water when the
eaves-troughs are out of repair, or the
clstern yet unbuilt. Sometimes, too,
even when the mistress is her own
kitchen-girl, she does without this and
that which would tighten and expedite
her labors, from sheer indifference-a
lack of genuine interest in her work,
inability to plan better methods and ar
or from habit, treading by
impulse the old and beaten track.
Often she does not even avail herself of
those simple methods of work or ar
rangement that require no outlay of
money and little of thought, yet save
MANY steps and much WEAKNESS in the
course of the day.
Who but can call to mind housekeep-
cps of this latter class, who cannot so
much as mix up tin of biscuits or
make . batch of pies without several
rods of travel-to one corner of the
kitchen for bread pan, to another for
kneading board, to another for rolling
pin and cake cutter, and to vet another
for baking-dishes, and to still other
shelves or places for flour, sugar, salt,
soda, spices and other things, instead
of having at least the most of these so
arranged that few steps would be re-
quired to bring them allp-C0r. Country
Gentleman.
Three burglars feloniously and with
wicked intent entered a newspa per
Office in Illineis one day last week.
Strange as it may seem, there was
enough to 70 around and they each got
something. One got 6 cents, one got
away. and the other got sixty days.
Burlington HaaCkeye.