Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-18
HOUSEKEEPING.
Look Upon 1t Business and Be Sys.
tematic in Your Work.

Look Upon 1t Business and Be Sys-
tematic in Your Work.
Housekeeping should be conducted on
system. No business is well conducted
without systematic rules which are strict
ly adhered to. Housekeeping is as much
a business as bookkeeping, though but
few housekeepers ever look at it in that
light. There should be place for every
thing, to begin with. A great deal OF
vexation, of loss of time and extra labor
results from not having things where
they belong. If you are in hurry to
find any thing, it generally happens that
it can't be found or, if found, it has to
be hunted for. This can all be avoided
by forming the habit of putting each ar
ticle in its proper place and keeping it
there when not in use. 1t is an easy
matter to do this when once the habit is
formed. Do not allow yourself to ''lay
any thing down" wherever cit comes
handy to do So" If your kitchen has
not conveniences of the kind required,
make them or get them made. Insist
on having set of small drawers in
which to keep spices, ETC., near your
mixing table. Have these drawers Ia
beled plainly. Have a place by itself
for such vessels as you use for baking
and other cooking. Never let these
vessels get into any other department.
This concentrates your labor; there will
be no necessity for running here 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 every thing in its place be carried
out in all departments of the house
hold. To reduce housekeeping to a
system, you must arrange your work
after plan, and let this plan be adj
hered to. Take it up in an orderly way
mot, as so many others do, in jum-
BILE, doing little of this now,
ing to do half dozen things at
the same time. Get one shing out
of the way before you begin another.
order in which it can be done to the
best advantage, and, having ascertained
from experiment what that order is,
make it the daily programme. In
short time you will see household mat
tiers moving like clockwork. There
will be no clash, no confusion. In do
ing homework, it should be the aim of
the housekeeper to save 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 to be done, at a
particular time, you can econcmize
time and labor to great extent.
Some women make half dozen trips to
the cellar where one would be sufficient
if they worked as well with their heads
as they do with their hands. They do
not take the trouble to think, before go
ing to the cellar or storeroom 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 conveniently as possible. Have a
place for the accommodation of dity
clothes, and teach the children to put
all their soiled garments there when
they are exchanged for clean ones. This
will remove the necessity of making
trip to every room on wash-day. Insist
on having the occupants of each room
strip the clothing from the beds and
hang before the window to air, on aris-
ing. If this be 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 it the rule to |
have everything in its proper place, |
other members of the family than the |
can find needed articles
readily and without throwing every |
thing into confusion. Let the bill of .
fare be varied from day to day. When ,
you get hold of good recipe put it in a .
scrap-book, which should be kept in !.
every kitchen. In short time you will
have a large number of recipes which
you can rely on. and reference to this .
will suggest variations in the daily food.
Never admit anything but tested and
reliable recipe. Every kitchan should
nave set of measures and scales for
use in making cakes and other articles
which must be compounded carefully
md accurately as regards proportions.
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