The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-26
HOT WEATHER HINTS:
Housekeeping Made Easier If They Arc
xsSco,.. Followed Out.

49,. Followed Out.
There are many housekeepers who
never think of trying to tighten their la
bors during the hot weather. They do
their work mechanically, realizing that
it 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 a 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 awidower was heard to
say: MARY was as good Il wife as a man
could want. She never hired help to do
her work." etc.
There are n great many women even
in this enlightened age who would con-
slider that praise worth striving for. AL
so, You never see n speck of dirt in her
house."
1t is fine to be model housekeeper,
but not at the expense of ones health.
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 be
of the first Importance, why was Ewes
first home n garden: Depend upon it.
we are of more Importance than our
homework. We have no right to over
work when it is in our power to avoid
doing So and it is in our power oftener
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-
bic. The majority of housekeepers can
not get away even for weeks vaca-
ton and are too tired to go away for II
day or two. To those on farms there
are added duties that must be attended
to just when the housekecper is most
in need of rest, yet there are few women
who will see that because of these add
ed duties or the WEAKNESS caused by
the oppressive heat they should not at
tempt to keep thei- work up as they dc
at other seasons of the year.
They say, "Oh, l can't be comfortable
unless all my work is done in the usual
way!"
That is nonsensical and somewhat
selfish. They imagine that they cannot,
and never stop to think whether the rest
of the family will be comfortable when
the housewife is i'll or if they are COM
Portable when she is cross from over
work
There ought to be law preventing
housewives from ironing during dog
days. Such Il law would necessitate a
little change i'll the fashions, and perhaps
large supply of articles that really need
ironing would be thought a necessity by
some. but it wouldn't be long before
women would discover that they were
just as happy and just as clean as in the
day when nearly one tenth of their work
ing hours were spent over the ironing
table.
But the baby!" exclaims a young
mother. His long white dresses must
be starched and ironed.''
One of the sweetest babies in the
world will wear dresses of cheesecloth
this summer. which will not be ironed
or boiled. If his mother cannot take a
vacation, she will at least take nap
each day while the baby sleeps, and in
many ways will contrive to Tighten her
labor during the hot weather. -Philadel-
phia Times.