Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-04-02
MIsOIREcTEo EFFORT.
Womsn who Wear 1hsuaselvos Out with
Unuecessary DrudEerv.


One Of the most distressing things to
practical housekeeper is to soc womsn
of delicate physique frittering away
their strength by working with all
their force in many places where deli-
cate strokes and not powerful ones sre
required As matter of fact, house,
work is not hard work II it Is denS In
the right way. There IS no very heavy
houseworlx, especially in fat or apart
ment house, where the coal Is brought
up hy tho jau;t,r and there is no scrub
bing of sidewalks or d d,orsteps or any
outdoor work to be done. Where q
family occupies m entire house 1t Is
quite customary to employ q man to do
this heavy work. There are very few
cooks who would not give ''warnsne''
If requested to make the furnace fire,
50 common hos the custom become of
employing for this purpose a fireman.
who usually attends to q number OF
fires in the vicinity. What then, has
become of the heavy work of the house,
hold? It has simply ceased to exist
with the modern methods of life. What
is required in house work Is systematic
work-lirht, steady strokes, which tell
every time An intelligent maid will
80 systematize her work that hav-
ing once set the wheels in motion,
she will find many spare minutes to
pick up crochet or sewing work, never
once losing thought of the main work
before her or allo wing the reins to drop
from her hnnda Especially is this true
OF German girls. who seem to have q
wonderful knack of systematizing their
work and accomplishing more in spare
minutes than the average houseiieideu
does in ten hours Of her working day.
Polishing stove is now generally
considered about the hardest work of
the kitchen, and it may be, indeed, q
burdensome thing il done in a helter-
skelter fashion. IT, however, the
worker puts on a pair of old gloves.
wipe the dust off the stove thoroughly,
uses an ordinary shoe-blacking brush.
kept for the purpose (not the heavy
can do wonders. Let her apply the
brush, intended to apply the blacking
the other brueh, intended for polish
ing. Let her do this with light. steady
strokes. such as an expert bootblacls
uses The more force the less speed.
The same is true of p ,lishiug silver,
brass work. nickel-plat, or any clean
ing. 1t is the light, steady and we'll.
directed stroke that tells. The same is
true also of cleaning the floor or of
cleaning paint or windows, or of laun-
dry work. The laundress who expends
her strength in ru bbing clothes is very
undesira BILE creature to have in the
kitchen. A great many clothes must
be rubbed by hand a'one. This would
be worn out if rubbed on the board.
The expert ironer is not one who irons
with force but one who irons with care.
Tho long vail which is con ntinually
going up over the harlships Of house
keepers has no place1n n house furn-
ished with modern improvements. Only
in remote country districts where water
is not supplied to the kitchen, and
much heavy work is done by women
which should fall to the lot OF men, is
there any cause for complaint that
houseworh is heavy.
Women whose ''chimneys always
smoke" whose fires always go out,
who insist on using their dampers in
an opposite way from that the stove
maker intended. who are forever up
setting things and are subject to all
manner of untoward accidents, who
pile greasy pots and pans and half soil
ed dishes together, are quite likely to
find housekeeping burdensome.