Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-09-14
WORK IN SUM MFR.

Some Valuable Suggestions For Women
 WhC Keep House.
 Every human being is entitled to rest and leisure when needed. It is not an easy matter to live, even under the most favorable conditions and certainly this is true when hands and nerves ard brain go on in a ceaseless round from week to week and year to year.
 But it is pretty generally accepted that the woman who is in the kitchen constantly is not an expert at house. keeping. All that is necessary is to set the domestic machinery in motion, and then little attention-systemat and diligent- it going. There are thousands of women who do the greater part of their work and yet have abund- ant time for reading and recreation. It is not, however, those women who go into wholesale pickling and can- ming, and whose children are furbe- owed to death and who spend more ;lme on their own raiment than is re- luired The summer-when crops and garden are "laid by" is the proper sime to rest, for there are then fewer demands upon the mind and body of the average woman There are no fires to be looked after and kept up, with the additional dust and work which they involve, none of the countless social de- mands, public and private, which the winter seems to encourage.
 With screens for doors and windows, the necessity of sweeping and dusting | is greatly diminished. In warm wealth CT the house once set to right stays clean as it does not in winter when the | family must remain indoors the greater | part of the time, and when mud and snow are treaded over the carpets by | the feet of the needless and untidy. In | addition to this, where there are no | mittens and overcoats and overshoes to be picked up after the same careless members of the household, there is not so much strengthening up" required.
 The cham bers, well aired, can be put in order shortly after breakfast and, with the lessened quantity of bed cloth ing to be shaken out and stunned, the work ought not to occupy many min utes.
 Cooking and dishwashing are always | the bugbear of the houselzeeper in hot ther, but with the conveniences in the way of improved utensils, gas and gasoline stove and perfect sinks, this ought to be dispatched without worry and with no unreasonable amount of labor. Where the men of the family are not too exacting in the matter of pies and buildings, much of the food can be prepared in the cool of the morn ing while breakfast is under way; the dessert, at least, and the washing and further preparation of such vegeta bles as will not spoil by standing.
 Where midday dinner is the rule, as it is generally in the country, dishes for supper can be got in readiness salads, cakes and fir lit, with the tea, which is served with ice.
 timent in favor of fresh fruits for des- serts, in nstead of pastry and preserves, which was as tedious and difficult tc prepare as they were hard to digest This reformation alone has lessene6 the work about the house to great de. gree.
 After her morning duties have been performed the houseleeper should have at least part of her afternoon to rest lie down for a refreshing nap, if pos sible. Then the hour over the mending basket before supper, and the evening for conversation, or other recreation, should round off a day where every task had been easily performed, at nc sacrifice of strength or nervous force : and where no more had been done than the demands of necessary and health full exercise require. e.-Chicago Inter Ocean.