Morris tribune., 1889-10-02
HER WORK Is NEVER DONE
SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T
ENOUGH SYSTEM ABOUT II.

If Housekeeping Is Properly Systematized
II Can Be Finishea1 just as Mans La
-~bors Are-Plans Suggested by Lady
Who Has Studied the Subject.
Women are constantly complaining
that their work never ends-that while
a man works only during certain hours
of the day they never get through. The
principal reason, perhaps, is that they
do not put enough thinking into their
work. s 49, '.a . =
ssWhy couldn't you tell me every
thing at oncey' was the petulant protest
of a child who had been sent up stairs
to her mothers room. first for a pair Of
scissors, then for tape measure, then.
for a spool of cotton, and finally for a
garment that was to be lnended and had
been forgotten.
The child received sharp reproof for
her impertinence, the mother placidly
remaining quite obliEious of the fact
that she also needed a reproof for her
own heedlessness. The child recognized
the injustice and didn't forget it. A.
little thought would have saved steps
and temper; and it is this same thought
that needs to go into the everyday
work.
One trouble with women-many of
them-is, they fail to recognize house,
keeping as business, to be carried on,
as any business is, with dignity and with
method. They regard it as a drudgery.
and they fret and worry over it until
both mind and body are disturbed, and
the peace of the household is. worried
with contention. The mental atmos-,
phere of the house mother. is felt by
every one, and she cannot be out of sorts
without putting everybody else out. It
may be impossible to keep from fretting,
and aidificult task to be always serene;
but one can more nearly approximase
the latter condition and keep free from.
the former byohaving things 30 arranged
about the house that every thing will GO
like the traditional :. .clockwork.'" os'5' ~
Mrs. Cornelius, who has been the friend
and counselor to SO many young house,
keepers, has arranged the work; of the
week In a few words of kindly aayice.
Nothing better has ever been written,
and it is good enough to quote as d text.
She has arranged this for the benefit of
families whose pecuniary means allow
an entirely comfortable, but not q costly,
mode of living. You viii see that it
differs somewhat from the customary.
"Monday work, etc. She says:z On
Monday have the heuseswept and busted,
the clothes for the wash collected and
such articles mended as should be before
being washed. On Tuesday wash. In
families where the washings are large it
is better to delay the ironing till the next
day but one. This gives time for doing
some things necessarily omitted on wash
ing day, for instance, baking If the size
of the family nlakes~it necessary (bake
twice a week. and fer folding the clothes.
as one is better able to do the whole IRON
ing in day than if size was to perform
this labor on the day Immediately after
the washing day.
Therefore on Wednesday bake and
fold the clothes, on Thursday iron,
on Friday have all parts of the house
that are in constant use swept. and
busted again. the brasses rubbed,
the windows cleaned, and if there
are closets to be cleaned let them be
done on that day also. On Saturday
bake and provide such a supply for the
table as shall supersede the necessity of
cooking on Sunday. which should be
.sthe day of rest" for the house mother as
well as for all the rest of the household
Still another way IL Il, wash on Mon-