Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
SYSTEMATIC HousewoRk.
Clever Domestic management Sometime
Keeps Servants Contented.


work, IL done thoroughly and well,
must be systematized and arrange as
carefully as a campaign of warfare is
planned by those in charge.
Many housewives, especially those
blessed with II laundry, are finding
Saturday good day for the washing.
1t is necessary to have good, hot fire,
OF course, on that day, and the baking
can go on at the same time Us the
clothes are boiling, thus accomplishing
dual service from one fire. This, of
course, is not possible unless the laun-
dry comes in from outside, and the
maid servant is released from the
washtub.
After the washing is finished there is
always plenty of water for scrubbing.
and after the tubs and boiler are put
away, the stove BACKED and floors Of
porches, kitchen and laundry scrubbed
and the baking done, there is bliss
full thought of the day of rest that in
tervenes between the hardest work Of
the week and ironing day,
An early start is imperative, if ono
wishes to accomplish much. AS pre-
cious as the golden strength of youth,
are the young hours OF the morning
If, therefore, the breakfast hour is
half-past seven, make the servant un-
derstand TINT she is to rise at half-past
five, start the fires, take up ashes, fill
kettle with freshly-drawn water, and
then she may go out into the fresh air
to fill her lungs and also to sweep the
porches and walks. The living rooms
may also be aired and busted, then the
table carefully set for breakfast.
There is freshness about a newly.
set table quite impossible where it is
standing from one meal to this next,
and 1t takes SO short time to set the
table that think it we'll repays one
for the extra trouble.
Remember the tastefully-set table is
great stimulator to the appetite.
And insist upon this being done. II
this is Saturday, with it's onerous
double duties of laundering and bak-
ing, the mistress of the house and the
daughters will probably help about
the morning work, and the mistress at
tends to the marketing for the two
days, carefully needing the fact that it
is possible to serve good Sunday din
ner without interfering with church
attendance of either mistress or maid.
The dessert should be prepared, if
possible, on Saturday for Sunday.
Monday morning, if the maid is up
betimes, the house can be aired and
busted before the family is up. The
lady of the house will doubtless attend
to the beds after they have been suffi-
GENTLY aired, so the ironing may be be-
gun by at least nine o'clock.
Let the mistress plan and help get
the luncheon on this day, if the iron.
ing is large; the children and the lord
of the manor will enjoy mothers cook.
ing sufficiently to repay the sacrifice OF
time
Tuesday the maid will be released
from extra work, and this frees the
day for company or for window wash
ing or cleaning some darksome place
that has long needed it.
If it is company let the mistress
carefully prepare her menu the day be.
| fore and see that the marketing is
completely attended to also, then ear.
| ly in the day the salad, soup and vege.
tables can be prepared ready for COM
| pletion at short notice. This pre-
vents confusion and worry at the last
minute. Often the servants dread COM
pany from this very lack of fore
thought on the part of the mistress OF
affairs.
Wednesday is the mid-week straight
ening day and baking. II have always
found it to be good plan" said a no.
table housewife, ito get ready for
Thursdays dinner little on Wednes.
day morning, thus giving my Phyllis a
long afternoon out, which she fully ap.
preciates Fortunately all of us are
very fond of cold meat. So the me at
for Wednesday is noble roast or boil.
ing piece"
Thursday it is we'll to have the up.
stairs sweeping done, if the house is at
all large, and the mistress will have to
help about the busting or the luncheon,
in all probability, on that day. Also
on Friday. One reason there are Sc
many complaints of untidy help is the
fact that there is too much expected
from one pair of hands. therefore the
work is necessarily sighted. 81 have
been learning a number of lessons, -
said a bright young wife who had been
struggling with her work without any
| servant.
"Why, do not do the heavy sweep.
ing or the laundry work, either, and
yet find so little leisure, and / ex.
pected all and more from my servant.
One needs occasionally to do her own
work in order to find out how hard ii
Isl. E. Chittenden, in st. Louis Re.
public.
Pious Indians