The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-02-11

new way of housekeeping. Here is
our general routine, in so far as it
touches the four Majo household
operations.
The New Electric Schedule.
The clothes are put in soak on
Sunday night. This is time honor
ed institution, you can't go wrong
on that. Early Monday mornings
o'clock in the summer and z in the
winter-the lady of the house starts
the wsahing machine. Between times
she prepares breakfast. I have eaten
my breakfast many time to the
hum of the washing machine motor
downstairs in the laundry. Our wash
ing consist of about three cylinder
fulls-sometimes four or five in the
summer-and it is rinsed, blued,
starched and out on the line by half
past nine or half past ten. If Mon
day happens to be a clear sunny day
goodly par tof ironing is finished
by evening. If not, most Of the iron.
ing will. probably hold over until
Tuesday and be finished before lun-
cheon.
In the winter we iron in the kit
chen-electrically of course; in sum-
mer, we iron in the big, airy bed
room on the second floor, because it
is generally the breeziest spot in the
house in the mornings. If this sounds
like smashing all housekeeping pre-
cedents, remember I have already
said that we found from the start
that you couldn't combine old fash
ioned methods and new equipment.
Here is another perfectly good,
old fashioned tradition which I must
set aside. We have no regular
cleaning day. Every day is cleaning
day; the rugs are gone over every
day or every other day with the elec.
trio cleaner, and the hardwood floors
are wiped every day with an oiled
mop. We do this on the principal
that it is easy to keep a clean house
clean; but that it is unnecessarily
hard an ddiscouraging work to clean
a more or less dirty house thoroughly
once or twice a week. A house that
is gone over every day is also much
less liable to collect dust.
But we have voted that the elec-
trio dish washer is the appliance that
really takes the work out Of house
work-I read a Gold Dust Twins ad
not long ago which stated that if the
dish washing time in the average
home could be Jumped together, the
housewife would find that she had
been spending forty-fve eight hour
days a year just washing dishes.
That's lot Of time to put into non
creative work.
AS I said before, our dishes are
washed once a daylight after
breakfast. The luncheon dishes are
scraped as they come from the dining
room, and Immediately stacked in
their proper place in the rack Of tho
dish washer, and the cover placed
on the machine. So likewise tho
dinner dishes.
After breakfast the next morning
the breakfast dishes are put into tho
machine, hot water run in, soap pow
der added and the job is completely
finished in twenty or thirty minutes.
depending on the number Of dishes.
The fiat silver is washed after every
meal and our pots and pans-mostly
aluminum-are washed whom ever
practical during tho cooking opera
tions. Keeping the dishes in the
machine does away with any objee-
tion - to the undesirability Of
keeping unwashed dishes around the
kitchen. >..... g.. .-....
Making Housekeeping a Work Of Joy
You can easily gather from my
story that we have taken a lot Of IN
necessary drudgery from housekeep-
ing, and have added considerable en-