Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-24

tlOn mixed Well with the OIL OF gOOu COD
science, infuse into il large spoonful of
the salts of patience; distil very carefully
composing plant called "other peoples
woes" which you will find in every part
of the garden of life, growing under the
broad leaves of disguise; add a small
quantity and it will greatly assist the salts
Of patience in their operation; gather a
handful of the blossom of hope, then
sweeten them properly with the balm of
prudence; and if you can get any of the
seeds of true friendship, you will then
have the most valuable medicine that can
be administered. But you must be careful
to get some of the seeds of true friendship,
as there is a seed very much like it called
"self-interest," which will spoil the whole
composition. Make the ingredients into
pills and take one night and morning. l
guarantee a complete cure in very short
| time.
KEEP THINGS IN ORDER.
Most housekeepers have faculty for
| ''putting things in order" Some house
keepers have no faculty for keeping
things in order" They have stated clean
ing days for pantries and closets, besides
the semi-annual days when the whole
house is cleaned. "The innate perversity
of inanimate things" is seen in the almost
| constant disarrangement of household fur
niture, and In the accumulations of dust
and fragments, and this necessitates the
frequent cleanings and putting-in-order.
1t seems as if order and disorder were at
constant warfare and disorder proves the
stronger warrior. Occasionally, it is true,
we find a home where order is the law and
where the housekeeper is mistress of the
situation" The chief reason for her vic
tory over dirt and disorder is simply this /:
The old motto, "a place for everything,
and everything in its place." Is faithfully
put into practice. Every article of house
hold use is assigned to particular space
and is returned to the same place after it
has been used. If one housekeeper or
few housekeepers can keep things in order,
so can they all, If they obey this rule of
keeping everything in its place.
A certain space on the pantry shelf may
be assigned to the double boiler, and an
other space to the sugar bucket, but if one
puts the double boiler where the sugar
bucket should stand, that one begins
wrong practice and is the cause of GER
tain amount of disorder. If pail stand
at one end of the shelf and its cover at
the opposite end, there is so much viola
tion of the law of order. Still a more
serious breaking of this rule is the sloven-
ly performance of any household task
which thereby counts to the disadvantage
of the family. No housekeeper has a
right to deprive her family of any benefit
which may and could come from perfect
ful6llment of domestic duties.
"Order is heavens first law" 1t is the
law of the entire universe. Suppose the
sung after setting" properly should "rise"
the next morning in the wrong place, or
suppose the stars should wander from their
course. In what disorder and confusion
would such departure from established
rule result. Harmony is order, and every
bit of disorder is a discord in the harmony
of the home. System in the routine of
domestic work must be the basis of the
best order in the house. All the work
must be Systematically and regularly per-
formed or disorder in some shape will pre-
vail. Nothing should be neglected, and
yet one should not confne ones self too
closely to the details of the house work
that order itself brings disorder into the
higher home life System may be over
done like any other faculty.
Dishes and other utensils must be i'm
mediately returned to their place after use,
if one would keep the shelves of pantry
and closet in good order; the papers and
books should be returned to their places,
papers folded and books in good condition,
when they have been read; the sewing
work should be kept in the work basket,
which itself should always be in order.
Under these conditions a room may be
kept in good appearance all the time, and
it is really as easy to put an article where
it belongs as to put it anywhere" and
then spend time to hunt for it when it is
needed. 1t is as easy to put the thimble,
scissors and thread in the work-basket as it
is to leave them on the window-sill. Il is
as easy to pack plates of like size to-
gether as it is put plates of different sizes
in group. 1t is as easy to put the rubber
rings and the covers with the glass fruit
jars as it is to put the jars away with the
rubbers and jars scattered all over the pam
try. 1t is only by attention to these little
matters that order can be kept in the
house. Where there is no order things
cannot be kept when a place is made for
them. Many things are lost or destroyed
because of disorderly arrangements, and
time and money are thereby wasted.
Comfortable people do everything in
ORDER" but it is because of their orderly
habits that they are made comfortable.
1t is wise to give every member Of the
family certain share of the work of the
home, and to insist upon its proper per-
formance, that there may be no 'shirking"
of duties. There is nobody" who works
great mischief in some families. This
nobody" takes care of certain branches of
the housework, and the entire domestic
service is poorly performed, because the
disorder arising from "nobody's' perform
ances affects the working of the whole
domestic machinery, the little things left
undone marring the perfectness of the
whole. Ewes GREAT-GREAT-
GRANDDAUGHTER.
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