The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-06-30

We'll Regulated System and Com
mon Sense On the Housewife S
Part Will Rob TIC Occasion Q!
Many Horrors.
YSTEM in Homework will do
u wonders-that is. system that
is intelligently followed out. a

wonders-that is, system that
is intelligently followed out. a
system that is memorable SIS
the laws of Modes and Persians is like
ly to cause as much Inconvenience as
lack of one. Frances L. Brown of
the domestic science department Of
The Kansas Agricultural college gives
some useful and practical advice along
this line. She says: Many ID family
Is made miserable every wash day by
the mothers desire to get an early
start. Breakfast is sighted i'll its
preparation. Often the mother is alb
sent from the table getting the boiler
on and the wash ready. Clearing
away the breakfast Is neglected, there
by leaving the dining table in an I'M
slightly condition. and, living room and
bedrooms are left in disorder until
the W shing is done. And then, more
than likely, the tired housewife is
not e quail to Strengthening them up.
Every thing about the house proclaims
it Is wash day. there. The text that
we keep house ID order to live COM
fortably and do not live in order to
keep house has been forgotten.
where there are children or even
In homes where there are no children
there will be numerous Interruptions
during the work. 1t is wise to have
plan and return to the unfinished
duty in its previously prescribed order
than 70 leave that one thing unfinished
to take up another until at noon we
find we have been busy all morning,
but because no one thing Is completed
we feel that we have really accom-.
plished nothing.
1.-THE reward for work Is the ability
to do more work. The reward for re-
sponsibility is the capacity for greater
responsibilities. There is a strength
that comes from the completion of
any task that will go far toward carry
ing one well on in the doing of the
next. This satisfying strength does
not arise in the beginning of labor.
hence the discouraged. wornout con-
dition of the woman who has no def
mite plan of action.
eff, as is frequently the case, one
woman must do all the work of
household, to which is added the care
IF children. it may cost her extra eff
Fort to formulate and fix plans adapt
I'd to her own circumstances. but this
preliminary step once taken surely
-Us1I fY1cH 20 l,n srr No.
own increased efficiency. - -
Where there are children unforeseen
prablems often will present them
s.ives, but the fact. that she has Il
..afnite order that she would like tn
4llow if permitted will in now'sh
:''nder the housewife from attelnptiD :
~ meet and solve these emergencies
as they arise. On the contrary, it will
aid her in doing SO the more readily
because of her desire to follow this
order prescribed for herself by herself
ut isn't a good idea to set out a
schedule for all housewives. Hardly
any schedule devised by man or wo-
nan would suit any two persons. A
woman should make her own plan for
the day and live up to it as closely as
possible. 1t is as valuable in a house
as 1t is on a railroad
"A tentative order of procedure in
homework for housewives may be
adopted where women are situated un-
der similar conditions. This order may
lie more or less like the recommenda-
tion Lincoln gave certain book when
he wrote. This sort of thing will BE-
liked by those who like this sort of
thing
Every day in the week should have
some certain task of importance. one
of those duties that must be performed
periodically within a week or even
longer interval. This special work
should not interfere with the regularity
of performing those smaller duties
that must be done every day and that
contribute so largely to the well being
of the whole family Ii is for these
little things that a plan is suggested"