Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-16
II SCIENCE
Conducted by
Mrs. Alice Gilchell Kirk.

| There is all the ullleIenCe III lHe
world between a house and home,
! One is where we stay and the other
is where we live. So I hope it has
been selected with due regard to
light, air and sunshine and clear,
sanitary condltions and fresh paper
and paint whenever needed. Don't
ask for expensive paper, but after
knowing all the selections of furnish
ings for the home it is easy to have
the paper on the wall harmonize. not
necessarily matching everything in
color.
The most comfortable way is to
have all this done and the furniture
of the entire home in place before
the marriage, then after the going
away trip 1t is happy thought to
look forward to. returning to ones
own home There should be very
little work-in fact nothing is work
unless we make 1t so and worry and
fuss over it--in setting everything in
order
Completing Details.
The kitchen and dining room will
naturally require the most time TO
get all the utensils washed and hung
on hooks within easy reaching dis
lance for using at the stove or table,
and the dishes washed and placed in
the. buffet or cupboard; the linens all
placed in drawers, ready for instant
use. The sleeping room next requires
the most thought to be sure sheets,
pillow cases, spreads and covers are
put in the most convenient places and
always returned there from the
laundry.
The living room furniture is quickly
in place. Everything there should
be arranged for comfort and a home-
like appearance giving constantly
the atmosphere when one comes in
of wanting to stay, inviting and COM
Portable. 1t takes time to brins
about this condition in new home,
but 1t will come with desire for
making a true home.
1t takes nearly a year in new
home to decide upon the most con-
venient places for everything. but
change until that place is found and
then keep them there every day.
This one thing often causes much
Earring in the home-~never having
y
who can step into her kitchen or her
closet and open bureau drawers and
put her hands instantly on the thing
she is looking for has made great
strides in successful housekeeping
and the kind which will NOT bring
wrinkles, hard work nor keep ner at
it all the time.
Cooking Is Real Art.
It's the poor, disorderly, hurry-up
kind that hates to keep house, knows
nothing about it and usually tells
her friends how she hates house.
keeping" it is such ''drudgery." II
is only when task is not under
stood that it is insulted by that
epithet of "drudgery." The men
working in the street near my home
making themselves useful, perform.
ing service by laying street car rails
over which the people of the city may
pass in safety, are not doing drude-
ery-they are true artists. heard
DR., Wiley recently while giving a
lecture say;
II had rather cook a potato well
than to have painted the. freseoes OF
the Vatican-with no disrespect to
my friend, Michael Angelo
Now that our attitude is right to-
ward tho work in the home, it Will
be a pleasure to rise in the morning
and face the days work. Comb the
hair neatly and dress in suitable
housedress of a light colored wash
able material, small apron, white
or light colored. with no gathers.
Remove all the clothes from the
bed, turn the mattress, leave the
windows wide open, unless it is
storming, and go out into the kitchen
and prepare the breakfast, which
has been planned the day before.
See that it is on time, S that is
quite important in starting the day
right for the husband.
After breakfast clear the table,
wash the glass, then silver, and then
dishes. Now make out the menus
for the next day, three meals in
advance = dinner, breakfast and
luncheon-uslng everything possible
which is on hand in the refrigerator,
allowing nothing to spoil
Make out the grocery order at the
same time and go every time to Sc
lect groceries or meat yourself. This
can never be learned over the tele-
phone.
Now we are ready to make the
bed. dust, change the dress for one
suitable for the street, and go to
market I think if l we're to select
a home today I should have two
things in mind in regard to its loea
tion-hrst, near the cleanest and
purest grocery store and meat mar
ket in town, and convenient for my
husbands business. This being done
it will be a pleasure to market and
be initiated into the wonderful study
OF foods, buying and their prepara-
ton.