Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-10-14
HOME HEALTH CLUB.
HOUSEHOLD DRUDGERY.

HOUSEHOLD DRUDGERY.
I presume that II you were to ask
the average farmer Of today to go
back to the methods Of farming and
do his farm work as it was done so
years ago he would laugh at you. It
was common thing so years ago for
the farmer to draw all of the water
for his stock from we'll, either by
hand or with the help of a windlass
or oldfashioned sweep. l have painful
personal recollection of this kind of
work during the long winter of Mime.
sofa. Also Of all of the hay being cut
with scythes; the wheat, oats, barley
and rye harvested with cradles and
have even helped with fail in the
threshing Of the grain. The best in
ventive talent has been devoted to
tightening the burdens of the farm
and thus enabling one man to produce
more than was formerly produced by
three.
The farmer finds that he must have
all of the latest and best labor saving
devices and agree with most heart
lily, but what about the Homework?
Not only on the farm but in nearly all
the homes of working people, the mod
ern kitchen range is about the only
advantage the housewife has over her
grandmother's method Of doing the
household drudgery. True, she doesn't
save all the scraps of fat and make
her own soap like grandmother did,
neither does she weave the cloth for
the homespun clothes Of her children,
but she scrubs the kitchen, rubs the
clothes on the wash board and what
believe is the hardest, most frequent.
ly necessary and most dreaded work
of the household, washing and drying
the dishes. Three times a day for
365 days for so years dishwashing has
been the appalling sentence imposed
upon the bride who celebrates her
golden wedding. The worst feature
of the burden has seemed to be that
it grew heavier instead of lighter be-
cause more many more dishes are
used nowadays than were used so
years ago.
It's only during the last ten or fif-
teen years that the inventors have
| seemed to wake up to the situation
and we now have just as good and eff
fective labor saving machinery for the
household as we do for the farmer.
On the up-to-date farm there is now a
gas engine which is used in connec.
ton with a storage battery system for
lighting and through this power, the
housewife who keeps up her end with
the modern farmer, has an electric
vacuum cleaner which does away with
the sweeping and carpet beating be-
sides keeps her home much more SAM.
| tary than a broom ever could. On
wash day she simply pushes a button
connected with an electric washing
machine and in twenty minutes all OF
the rubbing of big batch of clothes
is done and while these are being
wrung through the electric wringer az
ter rinsing, the washer is cleaning the
second lot of clothes.
| For several years the big hotels and
restaurants have had successful dish
washing machines. You see men u.s.
ually do the work there and when men
find hard work they try to, and do US.
ually, find machine to do it. l pre-
sumo it will be claimed by some that
because woman suffrage has COMPEL.
ed men to wash the dishes while the
wife made political speeches that has
finally developed effective dishwash-
ing machine for small or large fam.
lilies, but be that as it may, am glad
we have them at last and that woman
is no longer compelled to spend a
couple of hours in the kitchen after
each meal washing and drying the
dishes because some of these little
machines both wash and dry without
breaking, nicking or cracking single
dish or glass, and that's better than
any man could do anyway.
| The fireless cooker saves a tremen.
dous amount of work as we'll as fuel
and food. A water supply and waste
pipes also are most excellent labor
saving devices for the household, but
I am inclined to think that the ma.
chimes that are going to be the great.
est blessing to housewives will be the