The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-03
THE HOUSEHOLD
Edited by ANNE RITTENHoUsI
Get q Schedule.

Get a Schedule.
To do your various housewifely tasks
whether that includes working your
own vacuum cleaner, making your
own war bread and tending your own
baby, or simply the more complicated
task of directing ten servants-in any
way but on a schedule is luxury and
an extravaganza. You may like to do
it without putting the work on sys-
tematic basis. You may be too tenn
peramental or too indolent to feel in
clined to follow schedule; but not to
do so means to waste time, your own
and other peoples. and that is just
what neither you nor anyone else has
any right to do during these war days.
The housewife has her task of con-
serving food supervised and directed
by the food administration, and she
ertrusts the task of providing her with
enough coal to the fuel administration.
The department of labor takes it up
on itself, to conserve infant life and
thru widespread educational work to
cut down infant and child mortality.
Trees are conserved and wheat is con-
served and tin is conserved. Doesn't
it seem as If there ought to be time
conserver? Time this summer is as
precious as these other things we have
been conserving. Without making the
best use of our time we shall not have
time to roll surgical dressings of which
the Hed Gross IS IN SuCn OlIe Heeo
You could not tend your war garden
or do any of the dozen other extra
duties you have taken upon yourself
to do. Really every woman must be
a time conservation department unto
herself. The best way to make the
best of your time is to work on a
schedule and to make a wise sched-
ule for all the people who work under
your direction.
Such a schedule is easily kept if you
write down each days required tasks
on a plain card. The seven cards can
be fastened together and hung up in
convenient place, the cards to be
turn back to the right place as the
days go by as a constant reminder.
First block out the schedule in the
rough. Each day no doubt already
has some special task. For instance,
there are certain days when you do
work at Red Cross headquarters. Per-
haps another day in the week the
SeamStreSS comes and you have to
stay at home at least part of the day
for her. If you have few servants
sometimes you have to arrange to
comes. Perhaps the day the cook
goes out or the day the nurse goes
out you make it your duty to remain
home. If you do your own mending
you will find it convenient to do this
always one day shortly after the clean
clothes come up" from the laundry.
Perhaps it seems to you that to
have all your tasks set out for you
each day and to feel every morning
that your work and amusement that
day are to be determined by the direc-
tons written on that little card robs
life Of what variety and uncertainty it
still offers Perhaps you argue that
you do not always feel like mending
on Friday and that you prefer to go
to the Red Cross when it is conven-
lent rather than on stated day.
True, it is sometimes pleasanter to
work without the schedule, but the
idea is that you must save time this
year. and thru a schedule well kept
you will find that your days contain
many more working minutes than
they do when you work cat random