, 1885-04-16
WOMAN AND HOME.
HOW HOUSEKEEPING MAY Be CON-
QUOTED SYSTEMATICALLY.
A Few Health Hints-Novelties of Fash-
ion-sonaethIng for Young ladies
to Doth New Orleans TX
position BrevitieS-

1870 - ANA&AEAA - NNA1A
Housekeeping should be conducted on sys-
tenn. No business is well conducted without
systeniatic rules which are strictly adhered
to. Housekeeping is rs much n usine as
bookkeeping, though | think but few house
keepers ever look at it in that light.
There should be n place for everything, to
begin with. A great deal of yexation, OF
loss OF time. and extra labor, results from
not having things where they belong. II
you are In a hurry to find anything it gem
orally happens that it can't DO found; or. IL
found, it has TO be hunted for. This can all
b. avoided by forming the habit Of putting
zach article in its proper place, and keeping
It there, when not in use 1t is IN easy mat
ter to do this when once that habit is formed.
Do not allow yourself 10 4lay anything down"
wherever il comes handy 10 do so.n II
your kitchen has not conveniences OF the
kind required, mako them, or get them
made. Insist on having a set Of small
drawers in which 70 keep spices, etc, near
your mixing table. Have these drawers
labeled plainly. Have a place by itself for
such vessels as you use in baking and other
cooking. Never let these vessels get into
any other department. Have n place near
the mixing table and the -four bin or barrel
for sugar, and salt, and rainns-in short for
everything used in cooking. This concen-
trntes your labor; there will be no necessity
for running hero and there for what IS
wanted. When you want anything, You
know where it is. Let the idea OF a place
for every thing and everything in its place
DO carried out in all departments OF the
household.
To reduce housekeeping to a system, you
must arrange your work after a plan, and
let this plan be adhered to. Take it up in an
orderly way-not, as so many do-in u
tumble. doing a little OF this now, and then
a little of that, or trying to do a half dozen
things at the same time. Get one thing out
OF the wal before you begin another. Think
your work over and decide the order in
which 1t can lon to the best advantage,
and. having a~scertained from experiment,
what that order is, make it the daily pro-
grnmme. In a short time you will see house
hold matters moving like ciock-work. There
viii be no clash, no confusion.
In doing housework, itshould be the aim of
the housekeeper to ave time and labor, as
far as possible. Where one step will answer
never take two. By having things in their
proper place, and knowing just what is tc
be done, at a particular time, you can econ-
omize time and labor to a great extent. l
know OF women who will make half IA
dozen trips to the cellar where one would DO
sufficient il they worked as well with their
heads as they do with their hands. They do
NV tuho AoubAo W thlhhf Ooloie kOihE
to the cellar or store-room for one thing,
that several other things will be required
from that place. All might be brought at
the same time, and thus much time saved
and many steps 1t pays to think these
things out
The kitchen should be roomy. No woman
can do homework well in small, cluttered-
up rooms. Let it be arranged as conven-
iently as possible. Have a pump
from the cistern and, II possible, the well,
also. Have q good stove, and one large
enough to do all the work required Of it
without crowding. The wood shed should
supply there. Good wood, too. Every
housekeeper should insist on that. II the
cellar Is not convenient, have as much as
possible of the articles which would naturally
be kept there, stored in a room on the same
floor as the kitchen, IL there Is one that can
be used for such a purpose, to avoid climb
ing stairs. Keep supplies of table linen,
towels, etc, in a chest or bureau where they
will always be ut hand.
Have u room for the accommodation Of
dirty clothes, and teach the children to put
all their soiled garments there when they
are exchanged for clean cues. This will re-
move the necessity of making a trip to every
room on w~ashing-day. Insist on having the
occupants of each room strip the bed cloth
ing from the beds and hang before the win
dow to air, on arising. II this is done, by
the time the morning work is out OF the way
In the kitchen the chamber work can be at
tended to. By making 1t the rule to have
everything in It's proper place, other mem
bers Of the family than the housekeeper can
find needed articles readily, and without
throwing everything into confusion.
Let the bill OF fare be varied from day 70
day. When you get hold of a good receipt,
put 1t in a scrap-book, which should be kept
in every kitchen In a short time you will
have a large number of receipts which you
can rely on, and reference to this will sug-
gest variations in the daily food. Never adj
init anything but a tested and reliable re-
ceipt, Every kitchen should nave a set Of
measures and scales for use in making cakes
and other articles which must be COM
pounded carefully and accurately as regard
proportions.
Have everything about the house as
handy" as possible. II you can't get the
"men-folksp to help you in making things
handy and convenient, study out what
you want done, and when you have decided
just what you want, set a carpenter at work
for a day. The head of the family will
quite likely prefer to hire a man, rather
than potter at the work himself, and 1t
will be much better for you to have him do
so, for you can make the carpenter carry
out your IDEAS, and sometimes the "men-
folks won't do that, thinking they know
better what should be done than you do.