The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-12

Miss Ada Meyers, formerly of Be-
midi but who now resides in Grand
Valley township, returned to her
home yesterday after a visit of sever
al days at the home OF her aunt,
Mrs. Matt Thome in this city.
The Baptist Prayer meetings will
be held at the different homes for
the next few weeks. This evening
the meeting Will be held at the home
of Mrs. L. c. Miller, on the corner
of Minnesota avenue and Second
S rect.
George w. Noll of Duluth arrived
in Bemldji this morning. Mr.. NoN
is secretary and treasurer of the
Melges Brothers Wholesale Commits
sion House, under the new manage.
ment, and will take charge of his
CuLlcS dl once.
Miss Beatrice Mills, librarian Of
the Carnegie Public Library has in.
stituted story hours for children,
every Saturday afternoon from 2 to
3 O'Clock. This is open for children
from the First to the Fifth grades in
the public schools. Miss Mills will
spend the hour reading and telling
stories to the children and giving
them much valuable information re.
gardlng the books for each grade to
read and also giving them the history
of each author. The first story hour
will be held next Saturday afternoon,
January IA, from to 3 O'Clock.
In many a home where the mis-
tress prides herself upon being a good
housekeeper you see floors and furni-
ture speckless, but you can never find
a thing you want. This article
ought to appeal to men who are al
ways having thir belongings put
away in impossible places. System
is as necessary to the ARRANGEMENT
of house as it is of a store. If you
use your reasoning power in arrang-
ing your home it is wonderful how
much easier it is to keep it in order.
If you cannot tell after a moments
thought where a certain thing is
there is something dead wrong with
your housekeeping, no matter how
neat you are. Learn to classify
things. Keep one trunk down
cellar full of your summer things,
neatly folded and put away, and in
the summer place your winter things
in the same trunk, also neatly fold
ed. Keep one trunk or box for odd
pieces, and one only. Get out of the
habit of buying things you don't
need, and storing them away. Make
up your mind that you will use what
you have before you buy any more.
Keep certain drawers for certain
things in our bureau and be firm
with yourself. Don't allow small
things to accumulate. Have
boxes for certain things. They
need not be ornamental. Just or
binary paste board boxes will do
one for gloves, one for handkerchiefs.
one for hairpins, etc. Be sure that
hooks for clothes are placed low
enough for little ones to reach them
easily, and that receptacles for rub
bers, etc., are easy to open. Then
insist that the children keep their
things in order. Each one should
help in the house to keep it neat and
in trim, and to put things where
everyone can find them. Give a few
shelves to the child to keep it's TOYS
on. How can you expect the child
to keep them from under foot if it
has not a place it can call it's own?
In other words, have one place for
each thing, the easiest and most ac-
cessible place for it, and always keep
that kind of thing there. Have as
few extra things as possible, and the
minute an object is broken, either
mend it and keep on using it, or
throw it away.