The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-11-09
HOT WEATHER HINTS.

Housekeeping Made Easier IL They Are
Followed Out.
There are many housekeepers who
never think of trying to tighten their Ia
bors during the hot weather. They do
theirwork mechanically, realizing that
1t overtaxes them, but never stopping to
consider whether part of it may be left
undone or not. The fact that they have
always done it in just such way,
that their maternal relatives for many
generations did it in about the same
way, and their neighbors' methods do
not materially differ from theirs, they
seem to accept as conclusive proof that
there is no other way for them to do.
Not long ago widower was heard to
say: "Mary was as good wife as man
could want She never hired help to do
her work." etc.
Thvre are a great many women even
in this enlightened age who would con-
slider that praise worth striving for. AL
so, "You never see speck of dirt in her
house."
1t is fine to be model housekeeper,
If God had intended woman to be an an
mated scrubbing machine, don't you
suppose he would have made her so that
she would have been better adapted to
the purpose? He made other creatures
with backs that would bend without
aching. If the house was intended to b
of the first Importance, why was Eve
first home a garden2 Depend upon it.
we are of more importance than oul
housework. We have no right to over
work when it is in our power to avoii
doing so, and it is in our power oftenel
than we will allow ourselves to believe
The duties Of a housekeeper are espe
cially trying during the hot weather
and should be lightened as much as posi-
BILE. The majority Of housekeepers can
not get away even for weeks vaca
ton and are too tired to 60 away for ,
day or two. To those ON farms ther
are added duties that must be attende,
to just when the housekeeper is mos
in need of rest, yet there are few womel
who will see that because of these add
ed duties or the weariness caused b.
the oppressive heat they should not at
tempt to keep their work up as they d
at other seasons of the year.
They say, "Oh, can't be comfortabl
unless all my work is done in the usua
wayw
That is nonsensical and somewha
selfish. They imagine that they cannot
and never stop to think whether the res
of the family will be comfortable whe
the housewife is ill or if they are con
Portable when she is cross from ovel
work.
There ought to be a law preventin
housewives from ironing during dc
days. Such law would necessitate
little change in the fashions, and perhaI
large supply of articles that really nee
ironing would be thought necessity
some, but it wouldn't be long befol
women would discover that they wei
lust as happy and just as clean as in Il
day when nearly one-tenth of their worl
ing hours were spent over the ironir
, table.
, "But the babyp exclaims your
. mother. His long white dresses mu
!; be starched and ironed."
, One Of the sweetest babies in Il
: world will wear dresses Of cheeseclo
. this summer, which will not be iron'
: or boiled. If his mother cannot take
! vacation, she will at least take a nj
q each day while the baby sleeps, and
q many ways will contrive to tighten h
\ labor during the hot weather. .-Philad
q phia Times.