Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-02-26
UNNECESSARY WORK.
1t Can be Avoided by System stizin
House and Kitchen Duties.

1t Can be Avoided by System ,tizins
House and Kitchen Duties.
The amount of unnecessary exertior
given in this country to the accom-
plishment OF any task has long been q
subject of comment among wise men.
Individuals so seldom choose the quiet
systematic way, allowing each detail
of their task to follow the other in
regular order till every thing is done.
In no place is want of system so sorely
felt as in the household. The erratic
housekeeper is responsible for more
than half the ills usually attributed to
unframed servants. The fact that serv
ants in this country are sally un-
trained is a reflection against theil
mistresses. 1t requires a large amount
of patience to take a green girl and
train her to the work of a refined
household. The reason so many girls
give up their work in anger
as hopeless task is that
they are taught without system tt
go from one thing to another
and can never feel that the tasks Of
the day have been rounded each to
completeness. The worker who does
not feel some pleasure in a success
full accomplishment of well-done
work must have a low, british ma
ture. 1t is the unnecessary steps the
girl takes usually that weary her, and
these the careful housekeeper always
seeks to save her from. Uneducated
people are often very obstinate, but ii
they are once shown or made to com
prehend system by which all theii
work can be done in order and tins
saved for themselves, they will usually
prefer it. 1t is certain that III method
ical households the servants usually
remain longer and there is less com
plant than in easy-going homes where
rules and hours are scorned. In one
house the servant knows every hour OF
the day what is expected of her. There
is but slight variation in the work
from week to week. The servant :
time to herself may be limited, but she
is always sure of that time. 1t Is not
taken from her on trivial preteXts,
while she in her turn knows too well
that any appeal to set aside the allotted
tasks will be of no avail. There are
few housekeepers who can not remem-
her kitchens where no large amount oil
work was done, yet every one was Tor
ever in a hurry, rushing 'thither and
von.r and the tasks of the day seemed
to be forever undone; and others where
an immense amount of work was &C
complished by the same NUMBER OF
hands. yet the kitchen was cleanly'
and the quiet manners of the workers
hardly gave sign of what was being
done. If there was extra work. 1t was
carefully planned out and ordered by
the kitchen clock. Is there any reason
that a girl trained to the easy way OF
systematic household should not prefer
II to the disorder and drudgery OF go
easvn homes. Y. Tribune.
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