The Osceola times., 1882-01-21
SAVING STEPS.
A Prophecy Of the Brenkfas, Table of thu
Future.

A Prophecy Of the Breakfast Table of the
Future.
The New York Graphic says; There
may be great discoveries and improve
ments vet TO be made in the structure
aud Arrangement in the interior OF our
houses with the view, in the language oi
the old-fashioned honsekeeper, OF saving
steps" "Steps" and needless steps.
are axactly what tire housekeepers and
servants an alike ''to death'-iag them
out body and mind-iust what Sd oiten
keeps matters sanitary, mentally, physl-
cally and attistically in saiu quo, mere
ly because all the physical, and with the
phvslcal TIE intellectual strength IS
worked into steps" Let Us bring this
argument down to plain, everyday mat.
ters offact, of observation, and often OF
painful experience in regard to the thou
sands of families compelled so many
times daily 10 take the one hundred and
odd steps 10 the 9Th, sixth and seventh
stories Of the clevatorlcss tenement or
fiat structure, and every item OF proyis.
ions purchased, as well a. every item OF
groceries forgotten, necessitat'ng on
somebody's part so many of these steps
up and down stairs. For the sake OF
nicitv and apr earance, how many steps
are required. The pantry is often in
room separated from the kitchen. Al
the dishes from the table must be carried
in greater or less bulk from the dining
room to the kitchen, then washed, then
carried again from kitchen to pantry,
about five hundred feet of unnecessary
step1 to wash AMI place them possibly
after each meal The pantry may be
| fifteen or twenty feet further than necc-
sarv from the kitchen sink, where the
pantry contents must be washed. Num-
/ berless and needless steps a-ain TO wash
and store dishes, Half a mile, possibly
a mile, Travelled in a single day for tins
oluse alone.
Suppose a breakfast table for n small
family was constructed with drawers Tor
the dishes, knives, forks and spoons.
suppose it contained nitches for the
coffee caddy, the ten clddy, the sugar
dish, the pepper box, the salt cellars and
the butter dish. suppose it contained
also as a mixture one OF the handy kero-
sene cooking lamps, not stoves, now in
vented, which will conveniently cook,
or at least warm up n simple meal for
two or more. Suppose The table con
tained q convenient receptacle for bread,
with the bread knife allied thereuuto.
suppose that in form this table resem-
bled a writing desk with drawers in front
for holding condiments, spiced relishes
and various kinds of the now portable
ard successfully canned provisions found
! at every grocery. suppose that thus
furnished, the master or mistress of .
small household sits at the culinary pest
of honor, lights the cooking lamp, boil,
the water, makes tea, coffee or chocolate
> warns up the canned and cooked pro
, visions kept in certain drawers, or ven
lures on cooking small steak or chop
: and so prepares a simple meal almost
r without stirring from her seat. Would
, nj mile of steps be saved many "ligh'
, housekeeper' BY such an invention
, Isn't it possible Couldn't any man
with mechanical and culinary turn o
. mind and plenty Of time, invent such
, convenience 10 save his wjfe's steps
/ Would his wife take 10 it and adopt it .
. first? OF course not. Progress Is slow
) Prejudice and habit are strO0g, and arr
strong and are obstacles TO all improve
ment. Prejudice and habit rage quit
. as strongly in many respects as n hun
dred years ago. Yet this, the cookin,
table, warranted, with intelligent man
r agement, to cook a breakfast for fou
I persons without requiring the lady o
I the house TO move from. m.,.lert ec6mes I,
? G,ye a.steps" uSteps' are the bane o
, our households and families. "Steps
4 in the close, lifeless air of our household
? ruin women's bodies, their temper
4 their digestiOns. Steps" use up for to
!, much of that force which should be al
4 piled to cultiyatirg minds and bodies, &
! the proper training and cdlcali4r-06
children. five would have more men
tai we must have less wastelul and un
! necessary expenditures Of physical force
2 All this waste must be saved the Sc,
: who are the least able 90 spare it, for It'll
. among the possibilities Of the future tina
| every ounce OF strength saved the WON
! an may, indirectly, result in a pound o
force, mental, 1oial or physical oo'-
, by the man.
DreAPr1GYTMENT in matters OF pleasure is
hard to be borne, in matters affecting health
IL becomes cruel. Or. Bulls CJugl SyruT
never disappOints those who use 1t for Oh
s.inate coughs colds, irritation Of the
throat and lungs, etc.