The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-29
EASY HOUSEKEEPING.
SENSIBLE LABoR-sAyING SCHEME
OF A WISE WOMAN.
She Watched a Military Inspection,
Admired it, and Applied an Adap-
tnfion of the Method to Her
Hout0 ioId.

Executive ability is knowing how to
distribute responsibility so that every
factor not only accepts it's share of duty
but continues unfaillngly to do it. Per-
sistent pursuit of this course makes the
victorious general and the successful bus
ines man as wellas the satisfactory
housekeeper.
do not believe, however, that there is
one woman in a thousand who ever stops
to contemplate this fact. Yet if all those
uneasy, over-burdened Marthas could on
ly take few practical lessons IN a, we'll
ordered counting room, they would soon
solve the. problem which causes them
such painful wrestling
Able business men who accomplish re-
suits are those who know how to make
other people feel the Importance of the
trust imposed upon them and as nine
tenths OF mankind spend their best eff
forts IN lodging responsibility, there is
as much real genius in stimulating
sense of it in ones employees as in ac-
tually achieving things ones self.
THE TRADITIONAL HOUSEKEEPER.
There is, 1 know, superstition extant
to the effect that a good housewife is
busy, buStlinS person; one always active
and alert, who follows up her servants
and never relaXeS her vigilance from
dawn till bed time. If mans work is
from sun till sun, while womans work is
never done. the fault is every bit her
own.
Fancy merchant conducting his store
on the lines that most women run their
houses. AT the outset his clerks, Office
boys and general help are biven explicit
duties to perform, and are impressed With
the vital Importance of attending to
them. Nor do they choose their own
time for work, but have stated hours for
every duty.
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES IN THE
HOME.
Now take the case of a woman having
several small children and only one or
otw maids with which to keep the house.
Properly managed the result should be
leisure for the mistress, discipline for the
maids and comfort for everybody. But
nine times in ten the chance system Is in
vogue. Servants are given general in
structions, bpt they are quick to appre-
ciate that their mistress expects to Shout
She means to rely upon her own vigil
ance rather than their fidelity for the ex-
ecution of the daily tasks. Realizing this
they get in the habit of depending upon
her prodding to remind them of the SIM
plest duties.
AS there is always a right and wrong
agement conducts a home on the same
principles precisely as those which regu-
late contingencies. But the little ten
year old daughter whose business it is 20
strip withered leaes and blossoms from
the plants, change the water in the vases
and attend to the bedroom candlesticks,
must be held swervingly to her duty
She must be taught at once that the
whole family relies upon her for the faith
full discharge of these tasks. Mamma
must never do them for her. and thus
lessen either the sense of responsibility,
or the force of condemnation when she is
guilty of Tegyect.
Most women declare it easier to do
things themseleS rather than follow up a
careless maid. But the really clever mis-
tress knows better She finds a way of
making the servant answerable for her
mistakes and continually satisfactory in
the performance Of her tasks.
THE WAY SHE DOES IT.
A bright woman whose soul had sick
ened within her by reason of domestic ir
Irregularities, worked out the following sys-
TEN, which proed delightfully."-, simple and
been present once at a. military inspection
and was much impressed by the quick,
bUsiness-like manner in which the inspec-
ton was conducted. After watching the
officer inspect each soldier in turn as to
his personal cleanliness arms, ETC., she
concluded that something of the same
sort might with advantage be applied to
her domestic management.
Full of this idea, the clever little mis-
tress prepared two lists. one for morning
drill, the other for afternoon parade. In
the first was set down in order each par
ticular household chore that should be
properly done before noon, and each day
at 11:30 o'clock, the entire establishment
was called up for inspection.
First came the nurse maid marshalling
her charges, and ready to show a row of
neatly polished boots, clean pink palms
white, well brushed teeth and sleek shin
ing hands. The matter of buttons, gar
tiers, finger-nailS, etc. We're we'll looked
into and then the order to break ranks
given.
The housemaid reported lamps cleaned,
busting done, windows washed, and the
stock of polishes, soaps and other require
ments of her department that were need
ed or on hand.
AS at II O'clock so at p. M. an after
noon parade developed the condition of all
domestic affairs. BY that time the
drudgery of he day should be done, and
just as men begin winding up their bust
ness for the night, so this wise lady pas
sed her household in review and knew to
At first sight the tired overowrought
housekeeper may fancy that the above
method may appear complicated and ia
tiguing. But as an experiment let her try
it in comparison with all day vigilence
and never really having minute she can
call her own.