The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-05-28
FOR WEARY WOMEN.

walls of each room where the household
machinery is active
ooh! my feet are so sore | could cry. .
says the weary housewife at night Yet
! She has taken three steps where one was
needed if she had applied her brain to her
work. She has stood up hours to perform
certain duties that a man would sit down
before, and then wonder what his wife was
laughing at
For instance, She stands before the table
ehoppins mincc-meat for pies; her husband
| comes into the kitchen, and she eXclamS
Il am ready to drop, for | have been on my
feet since half-past five this morning.
IIc if at liberty, and ''half a man, will
cheerfully take her by the shoulders and
set her down Then he will draw the high
est chair i'll the room before the table, seat
himself, and begin to chop. Very likely
his wife would say. How awkward! who
but a man would think of sitting down to
such work.
Many woman stands by table to pare
vegetables in a pan, and until driven to it
by Illness never learns that, when well,
she could have done the same work much
more quickly also more easily, if she had
seated herself in a rocking chair and taken
the pan in her lap If she is now well and
strong, this is the way to keep her strength.
| Do not be kept from seeking the easiest
and best methods lest some meddling
neighbor denominate this seeking of the
healthiest way as 'shiftless.
| There is a band of women now agitating
the question of wearing unironed clothing,
with view to easing women's labor, but
better relief than this is the broad-seated
chair. sufficiently high backed for the
| shoulders to rest against. y moment 5
ease thus taken is worth as much as
| breathing team at the footof the llill' is
worth to the tired stccds To start fresh
is of more value than rest after fatigue
| An evil avoided is better than two repaired
This chair should be armless The best
table for general kitchen use is arran-
ged like tablc-leaf hung against the wall
by three stout hinges Wien up for use,
this leaf should be just high enoueh to clear
the lap Of the laborcr, even when her feet
rest on cricket beneath
u coultlnot work sitting down, said one
tired woman. "You would have Ia hold
your arms mp. SO that it would be harder
thaucvcr
So II would; bat it is contemplated that
woman shoGld use her own common sense,
and arrange place to work Of convenient
height when seated. II may be easily
understood by any work that table
one could not sit up to squarely, so that
the work would be over her lap would be
awkward and trosomc.
If two are at work in the kitchen at the
same time, there should be two of these
high chairs, truly called the woman's
friend, and two Of these laI-leaycs; or saw
oil the legs of the regular cooking and
work tables Ifone has easy, high-backed
chairs, il is easy to get any ordinary labor
er in wood to fit each leg into a block
that will raise it to the height desired.
The first enc saw was for use III a small
kitchen. and often the heat of the stove
was offensive II wasa broad backed. cane
seated dining chair: circular back Of zine
was neatly fitted in. and allowed to run up
about twelve inches above the chairs back
TO keep tie heat Oft a carpenter had
Turned some nattencd balls four inches in
diameter, and each leg was set in one Of
these as in socket; here this woman
cleaned vegetables, rolled pie-crust, made
bread, cakes, pics, cookies, cts; from six
in the mo rning until six at night, "for four
dollars a week. When her chair was
commented upon she dryly remarked, at
is all very well for a woman to stand at
her cooking table. If She knows no better,
and has only couple of pies to make; but
when a woman has got to roll pastry all
day, it, different things. tell your
But the Inference is naturally drawn.
that the weary house mother could also
rest her weary understandings to her adj
vantage.
Women, as a rule, have been much
slower than men to avail themselves of
labor-savng Innovations, and all this aside
from the great fact that many women have
no money that they arc permitted to nse
thus.
One woman wished to introduce a tin
steam washer into her laundry to replace
the rubbing board, and though it was de
monstrated by actual test that the woman
could sit in It comfortable chair and
BY turning crank to the machine
could cleanse better in twenty minute dou-
bic the pieces that She could rub out III
one hour, and that the wear and tear was
completely avoided, yet the iaundress
actually refuse to use the washer, and per
sistcntly reiterated. I'D ruther have my
old way, and stand and rub five hours as
usual, and then bile EN-, than to set and
turn that crank and have 'em ready to
'suds in ali hour It's so dretful shiltlesS
and genteel TO set and wash.
When carpet swecpers were introduced,
il was with difficulty women were per
suaded to even test them and they actu-
ally persisted that they cleared it would he
hard ON their carpcts,' This from women
who dig the nap OFF their carpets by the
dustpaniull each weekly sweeping day, to
90, not limo of Tho quantities of porOns plaS-