Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-08

breaking into every day. A literary wo-
man, one who is more fond of her books
than her baking, said: Il can't tell YOU
what comfort my winter Wednesday is
to me now, 1 make pies enough then to
last week, and all the time I'm making
them, keep thinking of the hours Of
good reading I can put in, where I
used to be frettlng over what to have for
dessert"
In every days work there are hundreds
of little ways in which certain order of
proceedings will save wear and Worry. II
every article used is at once put in its
proper place instead, of being dropped
anywhere, then the extra handling of uten-
sils will often be lessened full half. If
the head is used in defense of the feet,
over the stairs, much strength is saved.
How often we go up or down stairs, empty
handed, on an errand, when a little
thought would reveal the fact that the
opposite errand must be done soon, and
one trip will easily do both.
In the greater affairs of the home life,
how we all envy the woman who has pow
er to take time by the forelock; and we
feel almost contempt for the one who, in
flutter of excitement and hurry all the
time, only succeeds in grasping the
fetlock, and always comes out behind her
plans.
Spring sewing, with the first, is invari-
ably done before hot weather comes on ;
with the second, it drags along all sum-
mer. Each garment is finished in rush,
and no dress is made without having the
owner in such hurry, SO much SO, that
she possibly has to wear it before the
buttonholes are worked, or, quite likely,
goes pocketless, "for once" and we all
know that dress once worn is seldom
worked on again.
Our systematic woman has all the sum-
mer in which to plan and think about the
winters tasks, and when pleasant work
days come, from autumn's store of COM
forts, she is ready to put her plans into
effect, and cold weather never finds her
without the flannels ready and the COM
fortables tackled.
Obstacles preventing all things going
right are often found in families where the
cry day work-the three meals and their
attendant burdens-makes all that can be
done, so these extra things cannot come
in their proper place, because there is
neither time nor strength for them. The
remedy here is very simple. Have help!
When the out-of-door work comes In
rush, as in plow time, haying or harvest,
the only thing thought of is the number
of extra hands wanted. No idea there of
letting the planting drag along into the
middle of summer, or OF struggling along
alone, trying to slip in the haying by piece
meal. No more should the house work
be allowed to come in when it can be
avoided, but in canning Or cleaning or
fall sewing time, the extra hands should
be brought in, and the heavy jobs finished
up. 1t is true, that in the earlier times in
Kansas, the farm crop was all, and that
harvested properly, or lost, meant life or
death to the family; then, the work in the
house, the work everywhere might be left,
and all 60 into the harvest field. The
noble women who helped to settle this
state made many, many an unrecognized
sacrifice for the good of their dear ones,
and more mothers than we can tell, went
into their graves before their time, be-
cause of overwork, that the husband
might have the help he needed, and that
no extra expense might come through the
house. l fear those years have almost
made selfish men, in that they have grown
accustomed to take the sacrifice, and for
get to insist that they can afford help for
their wives, as well as for themselves.
But the time for all, or most of that kind
of work, is gone by, and very, very few
are the farmers who can not, in these
times of plenty, even so far west as Trego
county, afford to hire the help necessary
to keep the house work in good order; at
least, they can better afford to hire the
hAlr1 fh1r, 10 of7Drl tho VIC Of hao1th
perhaps life even, for If the wife and
mother be taken, the home itself is gone.
System means all this, even as much
as it means the small things Of the house;
both must come together, and the less
friction in the work, the more years will
we have with us-the home keepers d
the better men and women will we find
in the next generation.
1t is no difficult matter to select, in a
of young people, those who have
been brought up in homes where order
was law, and where, in consequence, peace
reigned supreme.
Give as much credit to natural tenden-
cy as you will to everyday training, and it
will do much toward making model men
and women; and we all admire regularity
in doing, rapidity of action, and ability to
accomplish work in any one, all of which
belong to system, and the sum of which
makes up system.
"Like father, like son." is no truer than
''like mother, like daughter" and every
mother means to SO train her daughter
that she shall be the truest and most
happy woman possible.
The time saved for reading, the health
and strength, the good nature that can be
saved each day by working toward one
plan, and having everything come in its
proper place cannot be estimated, and
before the end comes, years of life may
be added because of this saving of worry.
With Pope, insist that order is Heav-
ems first law, and every woman must
make her own plan in her own order, and |
visit her own work, finding every year
that just in proportion as her plan is per-
feet, will she find her work light or hard. |
In the line of housekeeping, we may
say, Have system in your doing,
and all other good shall be added unto
you.