Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-06-13
Follow Directions

If someone says, eco two squares to
the right, then three to the left. and
you will find the house for which you
are looking" would lou expect, by gO-
ing three squares to the right and two
to the left, to find the same house?
Yet that Is what many of us seem
TO be doing
We buy new machinery or cleaning
materials, etc. and either never read
the printed directions, or read them
carelessly.
when You clean windows with Bon
Ami do you rub it off cor try to,
alasD while II is still damp? why
not read the printed slip accompany
ing each cake and polish your win
dows after the Bon Ami is dry? II
is much easier. and gives better re-
suits
Won't your roses grow? Do you
read the instructions in the cata-
logs or elsewhere and find out Just
how IT is done?
Though | have longed for roses.
made up my mind not to get any until
could get the best, and then follow
directions When our man planted
them this spring he laughed at the
idea of having roses the first year. but
we have had them almost continuously
since rose season began-nOt poor, lit
tie ones, but big, long stemmed roses
that look like bought ones I stood
over him with my catalob and had
everything done by rule. Someone
asked him once why he was doing
something | had ordered done and he
said: "Oh, Miss--- read that I'm
book"-not that he had any faith
in it,
But can't we see every day the diff
ference between intelligent and ignO-
rant workers? The latter will neither
read nor follow directions.
why don't hens lay more eggs? One
man so one of the magazines said, de-
cided not to feed his hens anything
more until they began to lay. Read
and find out what to feed, and then
follow directions" That is what we
decided TO do and at the county fair
took the first prize for the largest and
heaviest eggs We are getting a fair
number of eggs, even through the
moulung season. In former years,
the hens always took a rest.
II would he foolish, Of course, to
! answer all advertisements, but get the
| most reliable magazines, and then try
/ to buy a few good, laborsaving devices.
For years | couldn't wipe up our
| large hall floors without lying down
| TO rest. | saw the "duStlcss mop" ad-
NelllSeO. DOuBll IL, anu lbllOWtu
| directions" 1t has saved time and
strength, as few other things have.
| How discouraged our teacher in
cooking was | remember, when she
gave directions for breadmakng, to
| come around and find that one girl
/ had forgotten to put in any yeast An
| other had used water so hot that she
! had killed the yeast plant. Cooks too
| often think they don't need to read
recipes. They can guess at the ingro-
| dients and method Of mixing. Some,
with special talent for cooking,
guess right, but unfortunately far too
many guess wrong. Follow the cook
/ book, until you have tried recipes
often enough to really remember
| them.
Most inventions have full printed
directions accompanying themS which
should be read and reread, and read
again. It is surprising how long II
takes sometimes for new ideas to
"sink in" Then, too, what at first
was Greek, begins to dawn on us, after
working with new apparatus for a
! while
Concentrate your mind. and fol
low directions. Sarah b. Loede, in
Fruit Grower.