Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-11-20
HOUSEKEEPING WORK.
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Whether or not housekeeping is hard
work d-'pends great deal on how il
Is done. 1t certainly is not play; indeed.
there is nothing in the world in the way
OF duties that most of the intelligent
people who li-e in IL are willing TO call
other than hard work if they are obliged
90 bu- themselves at il day after day.
week after week and year after year.
II is not always that housekeeping
is such hard work. even under unfavor-
Gble circumstances; IL is monotonous.
Up-to-tlate housekeeping need not be
very hard work IL one is well and ar
ranges matters with any system. In
;he first place. the house must be prop
erly built. The dining-room and
kitchen must not be far removed from
each other. and pantries, closets and
/ store rooms are to be as near at hand
as possible. There must be a laundry.
s'ith hot and cold water and arrange
ments for boiling clothes and heating
irons. III this is provided, the kitchen
floor should be covered with a mating
II carpets are considered necessary
TO the comfort of the household, they
may be arranged rug fashion, with a
border of inlaid wood, or If the floors
are not good. of fine mating. This
makes sweeping comparatively easy.
rs brush clears the margins, and the
carpet-sweeper puts the middle Of the
room In proper condition. The stairs
should have plates in the corners, SO
that there is no tedious and troublesome
digging out of acute angles. There
should he screens to keep out flies i'm the
summer, and memberships to keep out
the dust all the year around. a furnace
with the most improved dust-hues is
necessity, and the kitchen range must
have good draft, and be of an up-to-
date pattern. The rooms should not be
overloaded with bric-o-brac and furni-
ture, but may be tastefully and daintily
furnished without entailing upon the
housewife the never-ending care of a
lot of cumbersome filings that are bet
ter out of sight than in.
liberal supply of kitchen utensils
should be provided. and there should be
sufficient closet space, so that when
one is required. dozen need not be
displaced in order to get at il.
Closets and rnntries should have
snugly-iitted doors, with weather-strips
10 keep out the dust. The housekeeper
who has never tried weather-strips on
her pantry doors has little idea of their
advantage. As for the daily food, it
people are content to live simply, and
this is very much better than elaborate
ness and too much attention to what
one eats.the meals may be prepared
without great labor. In the morning,
vegetables may be made ready for the
dinner. and much of the details of the
meals of the day attended TO. Some
nouselleepcrs think IL next door TO
disgrace to PIT away the dishes from
one days meal and wash with those
Of the next morning, but this method
has points of grace, as can be ottested
by some who have tried it.
The food should be put away, and the
dishes gathered and carefully placed.
in snug shape. in n large dishpan. Over
these place n thick cloth, to keep them
from getting too dry. The table may
remain spread from meal to meal. if
the dining-room is used for no other
purpose.
by looking ahead little, and work.
ing with brains as we'll as hands. the
duties Of the household are, to great
extent. simplified, systematized and re-
duced to easy and manageable proper
tions.-N. Y. Ledger.