Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-27
Labor Lightened.

s'Time is money" "a penny saved is a penny
earned" The logical conclusion drawn from the
above maxim is, that if time is money, and money
saved is money earned, then time saved is time
earned. Among the hundreds of brave, bright
women who "do their own work. how many there
are who are so busy from morning till night with
tasks that must be done that they cannot find time
to look over the magazines and papers, or the last
new book We wonder if it has occurred to
such that they could earn-by saving-the time for
such luxury without sighting any household du-
ty. We wonld like to give the experience of one
little woman who has solved the problem.
She lives, as so many do, in a rented house. The
kitchen floor was originally hard pne but of course
is never oiled, and has through years of wear be-
come rough. Our little woman is a good house
keeper enough to like clean kitchen hoor' so
down upon her knees she used to go three times
week breaking her back, getting splinters into her
hands, and making them lame from using the
scrubbing brush and wringing the floor cloth; feel
ing so hot and tired that she might well be ex
cused for the cross word that comes to her lips.
That was hen-this is The old broom tax
en- to the chopping block and evened with the
hatehet, making it little 'stubby' and stiff; two
pals. one of paper, light to handle; self
wrnging mop, and last, but best package of
Pearne. Into pail No. 1.-The wooden one is pul
some of the Pearline dissolved in boiling water,
and the broom; into pail No. 2-the paper one
clean water and the self-wringing mop with the
broom dipped in hot Pearline suds, the little house
keeper goes deftly round the base board, careful
not to take off the paint, and that cleared the
broom, used with a longer stroke than for sweep
ing, gives the Pearline chance to remove the
dirt. After place large enough is scrubbed, the
mop is used to wipe it up. The water for the mop
can be changed as often liked, but dose of
Pearline does the whole floor leaving it as dark
if oiled. In half the time, with less than half the
outlay of strength the work is better done, and at
arms length, thereby saving back, hands and
oh! important item-temper, perhaps should
say patience.
The time thus saved edTned-our little woman
devotes strictly to rest and relaxation, taking it
then and there, book paper in hand, seating
herself in the easiest chair lying on the couch.
Now hear from sister who scrubs her
floor on her knees "Whati sits down and reads
without changing har dress-what if some one
should Gomez" Well, if such thing should hap
pen, the way little woman washes her floor
letting Pearliue save her knees-ensbes her to
wear a better dress, and the self-wringing mop
saves the slop that might otherwise dishgure it.
If the bell should ring, ask, is it not easy for
little woman to rise from her couch or chair
where she has been resting during the moments
saved, and answer the bell, with face cool enough
and mind calm enough to receive the calerg
Remember, she would have been on her knees on
the floor, if size had not let Pearline be her faith
full servant.
My sisters, profit by the experience, and earn
little time rest by using that which it, and
tighten, without sighting, many household tasks
Pearline,