Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-30

While we know the kitchen is the
mainstay of the home and never was
SC much attention given to it as at
the present day, we also know that
we have other rooms in the house
which require our attention.
1t has been estimated by DR..
Wiley that If we live to be sixty
years old, twenty years are spent
sleeping, five years at the table din
ing and twenty years in the prepara-
tion of this food. If this statement
is true, how well we should plan for
health and comfort in the dining
room and sleeping rooms.
With only fifteen years spent for
outside pleasures and work IN a
woman's life, how very true 1t
is that any little help which comes
her way. lettering or adding to the
health of the family which spends so
much of its life dining and sleeping
is rightfully hers, Iand every good
housekeeper who has good idea
along this line should join the pass
it-along" club
Pass-It-AlOng Club.
Underneath the dining table should
always be found a small hassock OF
footstool for the mother or the chlld
whose feet just miss the floor. Chli-
dren are often very restless at the
table for just this reason, and motner
Is wonderfully rested by bringing heI
feet from the floor where there, IS less
strain and less rush of blood to them;
PAPER tablecloths or doilies should
he used at least for breakfast ana
luncheon. These are beautifully
printed like the weave in linen ana
with reasonable care may be USED
rs long. and then have the great ad-
vantage OF going to the waste basket
instead of the wash and ironing
board.
The average dining-room should go
through a process of elimination
rather than accumulation. In THESE
DAYS when we hear and know so
much of sanitation, we are not de-
liberately setting things around on
| plate rails and sideboards TO catCH
dust. There must be a reasonaple
amount of service for everyday use,
but most of it should be under cover
| back of pretty plain or loaded glass
ont Comes Plate Rail.
If a cup or dish stands on plate
rail or on sideboard it must be
wiped whenever used. Why make
ourselves the extra work? Well do
| l remember the day when / had the
| courage to ask my landlord II ne
would remove the plate rail from
my dining-room l know | went
| down in his estimation, but | went
up in my own when | saw every day
the work / was being saved busting
| plates which no one ever looked at,
and which we had been lead to be-
lieve were ornamental.
! The dining-room should be cool in
| summer and comfortably warm in
! the winter and well ventilated all
the year round 1t should be closed
| at night but opened the first thing
in the morning, winter or summer,
| for ventilation, then, il in winter,
closed and by the time the family is
ready for breakfast it comes to a
room with pure air which is much
more easily heated than if the air is
| impure. In the summer when the
| dining-room table is cleared, crumbs
brushed up and it is busted after
breakfast, the windows should be
closed and blinds drawn then opened
when ready for luncheon or dinner.
Small rugs should be used in the
bedrooms. A sanitary mop used every
day will keep these sleeping-rooms
clean. Never have a bed stand on a
rug. The bed should be put to air
when arising by whoever occupies 1t,
whether man or woman, boy or girl.
Then when it is time to make the
beds, by actual, repeated tests, a bed
may be well and perfectly made in
four minutes, and as many minutes
more will easily remove the dust from
the floors.
Exercise the same elimination proc
ess from the dresser in the bedroom
as in the dining-room. When one
can afford it, the glass tops on chif-
fonier, dresser and dressing-table are
the sanitary things to have. All can
not afford it, but we can have as little
as possible in good taste to handle
ture.
! Use one small drawer for all the