Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-03-26
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. MARCH 26. 1885.
Right the First Time.

These desiring to know how to save
work, will hnd some hints ia this arti-
Gle from the Philadelphia Ledger:
Ii you will teach the childreR about
you to do things by the FIRST intention"
or what is sometimes called the primary
movement, half the work of h0usekesp-
ing Is saved. For instance boy sharp
ems a lead pencil; he cuts 1t all over the
sofa or the floor. There the shavings
lie until somebody has to sweep them up.
Ii he had been taught to do the cutting
or any whiting over the waste basket
or ia winter over newspaper, then
emptying his chips into the fire, the
whole performance Is finished when 1t
Is done. Just so with the people who
strike matches and leave them where
they fall, on the top OF bureaus or wash
stands, or on mantel shelves. Every
burnt match should 60 directly 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 has
ket. In dress Sitting do your cutting
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 a 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 III one. When
a crooked kettle is set down upon clean
wooden table then somebody has to scrub
hard to get the marks cut. When fruit
dripping fingers 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 celOred d'0yley first. But
it is chiefly in avoiding useless litter"
and confusion that children and their
elders make about the room that the
saving tells. 1t is just as easy in open
ing letters and taking off the wrappers
Of newspapers to drop all the bits into
the waste basket at enee as it is to Oecu-
py 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
of afterwards with ammonia to get the
marks off. Teach the child with candy
not to touch anything else with sticky
| fingers; one small girl in New York used
| to be set down at q table. with plate
before her, and taught to eat her candy
with fork. This was going to the 0p
pOsite extreme; fork and plate had to be
washed afterwards, but not the hands or
furniture. 1t ought to be sufficient ia
have the child know it must wash It's
hands after such sweatmeats, and not
spoil the comforts of other people who
come unawares on sticky" d0or-han-
die or chair-back.
Every door mat Is sign put out fol
the primary movement and every scrap
err. When they are not used then some
body has to sweep Hp all the foot marks
from the summer linen floor covers, the
delicate carpet or the pretty oiled floor
III you shut in your windows when thu
blow GENES up that precedes thunder
gust you will not have to spead hall
hour dustiRg the house. Ii you shut in
the out side shutters at such time you
will keep the parlOrwind0ws from being
splashed and stained. IL you put 8
thick pad of cuttings from old comfort
ables or the bought carpet Innings fol
the stairs on the edge of each step yOU
will not have so eftsn to mend or shift 9
worn carpet on the stairway. All Of
this is familiar, doubtless to Household
readers, but there are hundred Other
matters that may be considered as they
come up in which the first way of doing
things saves steps and time and trouble
Especially is this to be noticed in HttinG
up rooms where you live or work. Have
the NEST needed articles close at hand
even il YOU have to put up two or three
small shelves ON the wall, or hang tive
or three convenient bags close by, or pu
in enc or two extra pockets in YOU
apron.