Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-28
A Weeks PROGRAM

Dear Miss Thomas: / feel a personal IN
terest in the Household, and when you make a
special call for effort on our part, II
seems a plain duty that the members should all
respond whether we are successrui IN carry
ing off the trophy MOTT should be CON
ISOLATION to feel duty has been performed. ! am
looking forward to the 'labor saving letters
with great expectation OF cleaning mucn use
full knowledge from them. There Is Grass
however that seems full of self that II
seems out of the question for them TO help or
be helped. But ] don't suppose many OF mat ,I
will write with view Of aiding those VINO
like myself. striving for broader better
life. 80
Hero Is my weekly program. beginning with
Saturday-the general busting, sweeping ana
baking day. And most OF SUNDAYS dinner Is
prepared and that makes It possible to go TO
worry cut out and Sunday afternoon can he
spent I'm rest. reading and studying the next
Monday morning the Sunday clothes are aired,
busted and put away. the soiled ones gathered
up ready for the wash, and the house put In
order for the day. Dinner over with the AFTER
moon is spent In cutting out the sewing that
is to be done during the week; folding eacn
garment to itself, ready TO be stitched at odd
moments to save the strain OF regular stitch
ing Late in the evening, when the garden Is
cool and free from dew, the vegetables are
gathered and made ready TO be placed on the
stove as soon the first fire Is mace In the
morning for Tuesday is wash day, and by the
time breakfast is over, and other morning
chores are done. dinner is also done. and the
starch
ing In the wssh pot. and by soaking the clothes
over night the work Is easy, and when l come
to the last rinsing water instead OF wiring
ing the clothes out in the old-fashion way,
Uft them from clean water TO the clothes line
without wringing at all, taking pains to stretch
them neatly on the line with the right SIDE out.
AJl the coarse ones taken from the line
when dry. folded taken down and ready TO
put away, for there are no wrinkles 10 IRON
out The ones to be starched should be dried
with the wrong side out, and II put on the line
first they will be dry enough to starch by the
time the washing is completed and should re-
main on the line late enough for the dew 10
moisten them: then roll up tightly and pack
away to iron next morning while 1t is cool and
pleasant.
n another baking day: for the two can be
carried on successfully together, as heat the
irons on the stove while am cooking. Max
ing loaf and cake on WEDNESDAY and Saturdays,
fruit can be served in so many ways with cake
that the dessert IS hardly to be considered.
THURSDAY and Friday can be filled mp with
suits our fancy-for the tough part of the
weeks work is a thing Of the past.
s,t on while ironing. washing dishes. rolling
pastry and the like, for you Will hold out 10
do much more work and not feel half so tired
Az 10 the fireless cooker. the poorest of us
can have one: for surely all have
era ekar box lined with several thicknesses OF
nsper with a tight-fitting lid a number OF
small boilers. with plenty OF paper TO pack
around the things and cover over the top be-
fore putting the lid on-and II hot ca or cof-
fee is desired II can he put In a clean, small
Inc corkcd tightly and well wrapped, and 1t.
foo will be in excellent shape for any hour
OF the day.
water can be kept hot in the same way for
the days uses. This box Is also most ex
coIIont nlace TO nut the loaf TO rise night
and nv the time you get up next morning 1t is
ready TO be worked over, and II is then ready
for the over by the time you have finished
breakfast.
Nicn tin cans with good tops should be used
for keeping bread and cake. A paraffine paper
sbouId be nut in the bottom, TO protect from
tho tin and when bread is cool wrap in par
affne naper and pack away-never use cloth,
for that will absorb moisture and produce mold
Well there is that devouring waste basket
ard I am rot half through. But I think here
IS the secret Of the whole matter: Do not
DELAY duties that should be performed now
Put love and ambition in your labor, and re-
member. planning ahead saves time and steps,
and far-sight saves worry.
Aurevoir. -