The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27
RUSHING THINGS.
Nothing Gained In Houseworls Nv =
slant HurryipR

slant Hurryiug,
81 think there was never n.y.,
that was so often quoted to me xyhaI,
was child as the one treating or ~
unwisdom of too much hurry" said
woman who had passed through me-
vicissitudes than most of the sisterboos
are ever expected to endure.
1.-The more haste, the less speed ,,
a household phrase with US, and bv H.
careful and insistent observance hos
saved myself great deal of wear ans
tear and made life much easier. 7 how
for my family.
'There are people in the world who
never seem to feel that they are accom-
plishing much when they go quietly ana
unostentatiously about their businavs
Such thing as working without bus
tie and rush would be distastefpl :.
them. They do not seem to feel thatth.
house is clean unless windows and doo,~
are flung open and everything is nilea
promiscuously out of the rooms in ordar
to give them chance to raise oro.,
dust and flourish breoms, brushes and
scrubbing-cloths and splash water and
toss things around generally. Tn nd
dition to this, half dozen things INNS,
be undertaken in one day, and unless
everybody is worked to death, there i
no end of fretting and annoyance, If in.
deed, the difficulty does not ASSUME .
much more serious form than this
"There ought TO be a school in which
housekeepers could be instructed in
the art of working quietly and without
ado. There is neither good sense
economy nor dispatch in rushing tbinos
in such way. Nine times out of fen
the great quantity of work laid out il
only partly finished; the house is the
scene of the widest confusion; meals
are irregular; children are cross the
entire family exposed to dampness and
drafts; and the wife and mother, dis.
gusted andsdissatisfied is anything but
an amiablesperson, How much better
it would be to take up the task by sec.
lions, and put the house in order room
at time, and that without all of this
tiresome stirring up that many house.
holders are subjected to.
"Of course, it depends somewhat on
the community In which one lives.
There is a neighborhood not many DAYS
| journey from the great metropolis
where woman would be scandalized
| if she did not have general house.
cleaning time. One sensible little
woman who lives there and never CD
pears to clean house, simply because
she never turns her entire equipment
out of the windows, is always spoken
of with some sort of mental reservation.
| The busybodies and Mrs. Grundys Of
the town often remark: oh, yes,
everything looks nice where people can
see it, but have my opinion of woman
who never has Il regular house-eleaning
time. Mrs. Y has lived in this com.
munity for four years, and she has never
yet had what would be called n thorough
house-cleaning.'
But, all the same, her house is i'm.
maculate from cellar to attic. The
family is never disturbed by eyclonie
periods of cleaning and earthquakes Of
pitching things out of the windows
| She has fewer attacks of nervous pros.
tration than some of her neighbors,
and her husband and children have bet
ter tempers, fewer colds and more regu
lar meals. She has learned, in all Of
its completeness, the beauty of the say
ing, more haste, less speed and in
graiped it into her daily life so that her
household is without confusion, and she
Is spared the reaction that comes from
seasons of concentrated effort, and the
misery that springs from rushing
things."-N. Y. Ledger.