The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-24
Keen Things In Order.

Most housekeepers have faculty for
quitting things in order" Some house
keepers have no faculty for Excepting
things in order" They have stated clean
| ing days for pantries and closets, besides
the semi-annUal days when the whole house
is cleaned. 1.-The innate perversity of in
animate things" is seen in the almost con-
slant disarrangement of household furni-
ture and in the accommodations of dust and
fragments, and this neoessitates the fire.
quent cleanings and putting-ln-order. 1T
seems as if order and disorder were at con
slant warfare. and disorder proves the
stronger warrior Occasionally, it IS true,
we find 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
in practice. Every article ofhousohOld use
is assigned to a particular space and is re-
turned 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 will only obey this rule
of keeping every thing 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 a
wrong practice and is the cause Of d Ger
tain amount of disorder. If a pail stand at
one end of the shelf and its cover at the OPP
posite end. there is 80 much violation of the
law of order. Still more serious break
ing of this rule is the s evenly perform
ance of any household task which thereby
counts TO the disadvantage of the family.
No housekeeper has right to deprive her
family of any benefit which may and could
come from perfect fulhllment of domestic
duties.
"Order is heavens first law" 1t is the
law of the entire universe. Suppose the
sun 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 a 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 do
nestle work must be the basis of the best
order in the house. All the work must be
systematically and regularly performed or
disorder in some shape Will prevail Moth
ing should be neglected, and yet one should
not cJnfne ones self TOO closely to the de-
tails of the house work, that order itself
brings disorder into the higher home life
System may be Oyerdone like any other
faculty.
Dishes and other utensils must be imme
diately returned to their place after use, if
one would keep the shelves of the pantry
aud closet in good order; the papers and
books should be returned to their places.
papers folded and books in good condition.
wnen they have been read; the sewing
work should be kept in the work basket,
which itself should always DO 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 be-
longs as to put it anywhere" and then
spend time to hunt for it when it's needed.
1t is as easy to put the thi.1ble, scissors
and thread in the wOrk-baSkeU as it is TO
leave them on the window sill 1t is as
easy to pack plates of like size together as
it is to 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 pantry. 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 dis
orderly 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 to every member Of the
family a certain snare of the work of the
home, and to insist upon its proper perform
ance, that there may be no ''shirking'' of
duties. There is nobody" who works
great mischief in some families This mo
BODY takes care of certain branches f the
homework, and the entire domestic service
is poorly performed, because the disorder
result ng from nobody" performances af-
fects the working of the whole domestic
machinery, the little things left undone
marring the perfectness of the whole.