Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-11-07

nave more commence IN their own 2Du-
ity; rely on themselves; CO. operate and
escape the meshes Of costly red tape"
Teach Children to Do Things Right the
First Time.
If you will teach the children and all
about you in the house to do things by
the FIRST intention" or what is some
times called the primary movement,
half the work of housekeeping is saved.
For instance boy sharpens lead
pencil; he cuts it all over the sofa or
floor. There the shavings lie until
somebody has to sweep them up. 1.-The
had been taught to do the cutting OF
any whiting over the waste basket, or
III winter over newspaper, then
emptying his chips into the fire, the
whole performance is finished when it
is done. Just so with the people who
strike matches and leave them where
they fall, on the tops of bureaus or
washstands, or on mantle shells. Every
burnt match should go directly into
some receptacle provided for it, OF into
the fire. In cutting out materials
to make up it is perfectly easy
to gather up the scraps as they drop
under the scissors, and put them into
little basket. In dress-fi fitting do your cut
ting over large sheet spread upon the
floor, which can be gathered up every
day, and its contents assorted for the
piece bag. In eating fruit teach child
to put away the skin and pits at once
where they should go, eating them over
plate or paper instead OF over the
whole place. There is no need Of two
movements to finish what can be done
in one. When crooked kettle is set
down upon a clean wooden table then
somebody has to scrub hard to get the
mark out. When fruit dripping fin
gers are wiped in fair white napkins,
then there is trouble in the wash and
ruin in the linen closet. The primary
movement in both these cases would
have supplied the proper iron stand and
the colored d'oyley first. But it is
chiefly in avoiding the useless Glitter"
and confusion that children and their
elders make about room that the saw
ing tells. It is just as easy in opening
letters and taking off the wrappers of
newspapers to drop all the bits into the
waste basket at once as it is to occupy
somebody's FIVE minutes in gathering
them up afterwards. Teach the maid,
little or full-grown, that if she will
have clean hands before opening door
then the door jam does not have to be
rubbed off afterwards with ammonia to
get the marks off. Teach the child
with it's candy not to touch anything
else with "sticky" fingers one small girl
in New York used to be set down at a
table with aplate before her, and taught
to eat her candy with fork. This was
going to the opposite extreme; fork and
plate had to be washed afterwards, but
not the hands or the furniture. It ought
to be sufficient to have the child know
it must wash it's hands after such sweet
meats, and not spoil the comforts of
other people who come unawsres on .
"sticky" door handle or chair back.
Every door-mat is sign put out for
the primary movement and every scra~
per. When they are. not used then
somebody has to sweep up all the foot
marks from the summer linen
floor covers, the delicate carpet
or tho pretty oiled floor. If you
shut in your windows when the
blow cumes up that precedes thun-
der gust you will not have to spend q
half hour busting tho house. IF you
shut in the outside shutters at such q
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