Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-02
How to Simplify Housekeeping.


From an admirable address delivered
at social science meeting, by Mrs. Gray
of Wyandotte, Kansas, and published by
the Woman's Tribune, we make the fol
lowing pertinent extracts:
Love for the work is natural to women
as domestic instinct, and is only lost by
overwork and failure to do what seems
! imperative duty, or morbid fashion, In
troduced by the foolish, vicious, or idle
Love for housework may be regained
often by careful thought and courageous
resolution.
Men, as a rule, do not complain of their
work. They 60 to shop, or farm, or Office,
cheerfully or manfully and faithfully year
after year.
They have their trials and sick head
aches, and are usually silent over them.
They rarely come home and tell us that
the saw was dull, and that they had to
stop all the machinery and sharpen it
that the ploughshare broke in the middle
OF the furrow, and they had to go two
miles and buy new one, or that bore
entered the Office and wasted all the
morning.
Everybody who comes into the world
ought to feel that they have their work to
do, and should be willing to do, every day,
good days work and not shirk it,
When woman gets married she knows
she has house to keep, and has no bust
ness to get married unless she expects to
keep house, and having once accepted the
position OF housekeeper, if not fitted for
1t, proceed at once, and cheerfully to fit
herself
To misplace kitchen fork or spoon may
burn to cinder the most carefully pre-
pared dish. The convenient holder lost
from Its nail may burn the cake or ruin
the pie and incense the cook. A cook
table, full OF drawers, where flour, spices,
rolling-pins and cake-cutters are kept
with bake-pans hanging over it, will save
you miles of travel and hours of time. A
small shelf near the stove, kept for an
extra pepper and salt-dish, has saved me
fifty miles of travel, think, in ten wears.
Only in one day count the number of
times you go from cook-table to stove, sea-
soning various dishes, and you will see
what this means.
can go to the pantry with waiter
twenty by twenty-five inches in size, and
VIII wv UPS lay lllt lstDle IOr 4 FAMILY OF
five or eight persons. With the same
waiter | can clear that table in three trips
and bring in dinner from the kitchen at
two more.
L have counted thirty trips made for an
equal meal-made by women who could
read and write, too.
AT the sewing machine paste on the
cover the query: SIS it necessary, or
really beautiful ?''
Is it worth my time or thought for
something else?
Measure every yard Of sewing by that
rule. You will be surprised how many
tucks less there will be, and how almost
entirely ruffies will vanish.
X K
In closing, allow me to beg of YOU. in
the struggle with dust and dirt, sewing
machine and cook stove, society and lit |
erature, to never forget, or neglect the |
supreme privilege or duty of mother
hood.
No equal attainment is given to men.
TO be the mother of kings was great. |
To be the mother of men, manly, full |
framed, cleanly of soul and body, is a
divine work. One beside which all other |
sinks into insignifcance.
This makes us heirs to the AGES. See |
to it that no lesser work defrauds our
children and condemns us.