The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-01
Labor Lightened.

Cline is money" I" 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 can not
find time to look over the magazines and
papers or the last new book. We wonder
lift has ever occurred TO such that they
could earn-by saving-the time for such a
luxury without sighting any household
duty. We would like to give the expert
ence of one little woman who has solved the
problem. She lives, as so many do, in
rented house The kitchen floor was orig
inally hard pine, but of course is never
oiled, and has, through years of wear, be-
come rough. Our little woman is good
housekeeper enough to like a clean kitchen
floor, so down upon her knees she used to
90 three times week, breaking her back,
getting splnters in her hands, and making
them lame from using the scrubbing- brush
and wrnging the tloor-clOth; feeling so hot
and tired that she might well he excused for
the cross word that comes to her lips. That
was hen-this is noic. The old broom taken
to the chopping- block and evened with the
Ratchet, making it little stubby " and
stiff. two pals, one of paper, light to ham
die; one self-wringing mop, and last, but
best, a package of Pearline. Into pail No.
THE wooden one-is put some of the
Pearlne 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 Pearine suds, the little
housekeeper goes deity round the base
board, careful not to take off the paint, and
that cleared, the broom, used with longer
stroke than for sweeping, gives the Pearline
a chance to remove the dirt. After place
large enough is so scrubbed, the mop is
used to wipe il up. The water for the mop
can be changed as often as liked, but one
dose of Pearline does the whole floor, leav-
ing it as dark as 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 impor-
tant item-temper or perhaps we should
say patience The time thus saved-edrped-
our little woman devotes strictly to rest and
relaxation, taking IL then and there, book
or paper in hand, seating herself in the
easiest chair OF lying on the couch. Now
we hear from some sister who scrubs her
floor on her knees What, sits down and
reads without changing her dress-what if
some one should Gomez" Well if such a
thing should happen, the way our little
woman washes her toor-letting Pearline
save her knees-enabes her to wear bet
ter dress, and the self-wringing mop saves
the sop that might otherwise disfgure it.
If the bell should ring, we ask, is it not easy
for our 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 a mind calm
enough to receive the caller? Remember,
she would have been on her knees on the
floor If she had not let Pearline be her faith
full servant. My sisters, profit by the ex-
perience, and earn little time to rest by
using that which will Sdre it, and tighten,
without sighting, many household tasks
Pearline.