Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-11
USE LAST DAYS OF SPRING
PLANNING FOR SUMMER.
Time just Between housekeeping
and Warm Season May BE
Used to Advantage.

~ "NS' ShRiSIiNf. fhtsDFhlS h.
Houseclcanng. let us suppose. has
come and gone. We have cleaned and
scrubbed and polished and made ready
for the warm days o. summer. Our
houses are in order. every useless and
outworn objec; has been thrown
away. But how about us. the keepers
OF the houses" Are We. too. in or
der?
IL seems to me tina; women often
spend so much more time ON the uc-
tual physical things in the home than
they do on the mental ones. We are
willing to slave. TO scour. TO scrub
those three RS" of house work-but
often We do not take AK much time
Tor ourselves as we give TO the bath
room. the porch and the linen closet.
And SO | ask mis- morning: Are
we. ourselves. in order" know wc
have all worked hard this winter:
we have become still more tired by
houscc!caning. and in short while
IL will be time TO put up fruits as
they como in season
Tween season" Period.
These last weeks in spring are
" tween seasons period in house
keep: n.--a halfway stop between
the work Of winter ard the actual
summer WORK. SO tina; we should look
on il as time OF rest. just !, big
endure the heat OF the summer and
the many peculiar summer tasks.
! think one of the best things we
could do in this quiet time would be
to think out some plans. In the win
ter We are so busy that we barely
nave time 20 thnll--jusi work. work.
work. En-; now we can plan ways
Ia make tho summer work easier.
the books We want to read. some quiet
things We want 10 do.
Have you really thought about the
balanced menu carefully? Have YOU
given II trial. so that you can prove
To yourself that you are. or are not.
following tho hes, dietctic rules"
Have you ever given the meals
fora week plan" tryout" Or do YOU
still bay from day Ia day? Why not
thinh hit ahou; this now and plan
TO give this moncyand- time saving
Idea a fair test"
Then there is the long, short"
cooking plan | have advocated so
frcQucntiy--the plan o. cooking "a
double quantity at ono time and serv-
ing part in one style and the other
half in Il different way. but with one
cooking. which will save fuel and
time. both so important in the sum
mcr. Have you thought about this"
And docsn'; ii appeal to YOU"
Hay. you worked out any kind OF
daily schedule" Day after day re-
ce!ve letters asking help because the
women never know how to plan or
manage and are thus ALI tired out"
summer is a good time TO begin to
maN" schedule. marking the time at
which certain work must be done. and
about how long ii takes TO do 1t. The
schedule Will have time and particu-
larry wasted effort.
written which would help you great
~ don't believe 50 many books
ever were written as now on every
phase OF home. on children, on food
on cooking, on management and on
the naw efficiency idea in the home.
Jus; y paragraph "r chapter in one
of these may help YOU remodel your
!nbor-savers or better planning.
Standnrd> Change Daily.
You know how :as, the Industrial
most advanced science Yesterday in
e!ect-ic;tv and other branches has
hc"n replaced ny something better.
Our standards arc daily changing. bat
even greater is the change in modern
demands on thu home. Every ;.ay-
there ~" new methods. devices and
eqn!pmen; put at the service OF Tie
noW"ina hcr. " We want TO he abreast
Of these changes We must keep 'on-
siant!y informed on what is new. bet
ter o. labor-saving
So Eel ,ha; in this luil in the
busy work Of ali our homes we can
think a h.t more and read a hit more
and nrcoare ourselves to face the
summer and it's problems in She most
efficient way. We were too busv in
the winter W. may not have lime
later. Sow is just the time TO pat
our own selves n order. to he sure
OF what we wan; 10 do. how We want
20 do IL and 10 i,.adjust ourselves so
as 10 face the new season with rested
happy spirits.
While "" hav" cleaned our own
houses 'horouch!y. many or us per-
haDs have not thought ~ the town
or city which "" all occupy and which
should he as clean as any Individual
home.
The garbage which has accum uia;ed