The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-15
LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING

Hints on How Light housekeeping
Can Be usefully systematized-Ar-
rangsmsnt of the Ktchen-tm-
portanes Of System and Order.
Some Useful Hints on Sanitation.
Philadelphia Record: Light house,
Keeping as usually conducted, means
living on bread and tea or working
twice as hard to producea given result
as II one were really keeping house. 1t
may. however, mean home making for
those who cannot AFFORD to hire a fiat
or house. Properly managed there
may be real comfort for her who has
but one room for her small kingdom,
but the mistress and maid OF all work
must have system and neatness.
Tile delights and disadvantages OF
light housekeeping have been rpade
known to me by ave years Of testing
them and each year the latter lessen
while the former seems to increase and
TO brighten. 1t Is such pleasure to
have company when please without
having to ask some unwilling landlady
II / may; It Is 80 pleasant to provide
dainty suppera or afternoon teas at
my win without having to ruin myself
by buying them; nor 1t IS without its
pleasant side. to me that l can eat what
and when and as I please without hay
ing to depend on some ones converts
ence. One who IS a light housekeeper
may have any luxury the markets at
ford when she feels tired of the hum
bier foods. They cannot afford them
unless she can cook them herself, how
ever.
She who is to be light housekeeper
should choose her room wisely, for on
that depends half her success. Let it
have the sun and two closets II possi-
BILE. A FIRE place is also to be desired.
There should be two closets 50. that
there viii be no clothing where food is
kept II there are not closets have one
corner Of the room divided off either for
the kitchen part or for the clothing.
Have the kitchen department literally
provided with shelves. II you are so
lucky as to have fireplace you can use
1t for brolllng. boiling and much else
The draft carries all odors up the
chimney. which is much to be desired.
with this convenience and with
three burner kerosene stove or q gas
stove having un oven you can cook
most things well. You will be surpris-
ed to find how extensive you can make
your housekeeping II you care to carry
It far.
Make your kitchen arrangements as
complete as II you had a family. II you
ind yourself needing convenIences.
Why should you use bottle for roll
ing pin and a drawing board for a
bread board Just because you are cook
ing only for yourself? Yes, know we
all do that when we begin. did; but
having grown tired Of 1t I found the
rolling pin a luxury not above my
reach. For long time / made all my
hashes with a knife and fork Now /
have smaii-stzed chopper, one Of the
machines. It saves time, and really,
you KNOW sNhFIe - no TGA9VH why gNu
should treat yourself any worse than
your neighbour. These convenIences do
not cost much. and you can buy them
a. few at a time. and you feel much
more respectable using the proper tools
for any work OF course. we know that
at beginning the light housekeeper may
have to count her pennies, and then It
Is well enough to adapt what one has to
what she Is going to do; but after she
gets little farther on It IS not so COM
mendable. It 10 not well for one TO lose
ones sense Of order and decency Of liv-
ing, even II she has a kitchen which is
only 4 closet.
Make every inch Of space count in