Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-07-31
Just q Few Thlnas for Meditation

JUST rev Ih'n93 TOR Meditation
Most farmers wives do more work
than Is really necessary.
How few women think It is Just as
criminal for them to overwork them
selves as for their husbands to over.
work their horses.
Many women do a day and halrs
work in one day, and spend the next
day in bed to pay the penalty.
A fact that no woman can AFFORD to
Ignore Is that we can not break ma
ture's laws unless we pay for our
folly.
Many employers favor the eight.
hour day because at some work more
can be accomplished in eight hours
than in ten because the workers can
keep in better condition. Not the
long day but the efficient day is what
the housewife should cultivate. Some
women work continually at half eff
cheney because they have not had rest
enough. When tired and things pile
up more can be accomplished by sim.
ply going to bed and taking nap.
Then when work is again resumed one
Is able to drive the work instead Of
the work driving her. IA stitch in
time saves nine," "Well begun is half
done," and "Work well done is twice
done," are axioms to be remembered
and acted upon.
Simple meals would help greatly to
solve the problem of work in many
homes. Besides lessening the work
the simple meal has more to recon-
mend 1t. The simple meal gives vari-
ETY., for IL we serve every kind of food
we have today tomorrow me must
necessarily have the same things over.
Then, too. the simple meal is more cas-.
lily digested. 1t is the wrong combina-
tions of food that destroy digestion.
Often in our zeal to do our duty we
waste time and energy In making COM
plex mixtures that require hours for
digestion, thus giving no return to the
body for the energy expended. Taste
rs educated. Why not educate the
taste of the little child for the bal
anced ration, bread and butter instead
Of pie, cake or doughnuts? One Of the
most efficient means of simplifying
work is studying balanced rations.
This helps with the simple meal. Too
many starch dishes will be served,
with not enough nitrogenous food.
Oftentimes overeating, with its at
tendant ills, could be prevented by the
balanced ration. A thorough study Of
the many farm bulletins on the sub.
ject of food will help solve the prob
lem of the we'll balanced ration.
Clearing the table ana washing the
dishes is often formidable task, be-
| cause the work is given no thought or
| is not done systematically. This Is
mostly the reason why so many girls
despise dishwashing. With the dishes
| we'll scraped and neatly piled, and
plenty of hot water with soap or some
cleaning agent, a dripping pan with a
wire pan or rack to be removed after
the dishes are scalded that they may
drain while the cooking utensils are
being washed, saves the time and
! work of drying them in the old way
with the dish towel. One frail woman
every evening cleared her table and
shook her tablecloth, and then the
first thing in the morning spread the
cloth and set the table. How many
hours she could have saved by brush
ing the crumbs from the cloth and
placing the dishes right back on the
table instead Of putting them in the
| cupboard.
Good wholesome homemade bread
can be made in fraction of the time
with machine that pair of hands
can perform the work. By using the
vacuum cleaner the regular house
cleaning is robbed OF its drudgery. A
mangle will simplify the work Of iron
ing. The successful housewife is one
who considers her home-making and
housekeeping as q successful man con-
siders his Observation-Disclosures making
something better and finding more
efficient means of accomplishing the
| same work.
Getting into rut, crossing bridges
before we come to them, waiting upon
tie whole family instead of teaching
the children to help, are a few OF the
things that make life a burden for
many women. Housekeeping is bus
mess, and everyone who succeeds
must have q definite aim or purpose.
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