Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-28
NOW IS THE time TO BEGIN
MENTAL HOUSEKEEPING
Put Progress and Invention to Work
in Identifying Your
Home
ny PAULINE ~FItEDERICN.

Ncusecleaning time Is surely here
and we are, anxious to use tile best
household will be cleaner. froshcr and
+ IN better. order for the summer,
A Now rs just the time also TO be
= yin a mental houseclcanini-. Our
AND hangings. besides many articles
and objects which beauty or serve
Hut cur minds; too: are houses which
may have walls OF p~rcjudior against
new methods and more scientific ways
OF work. We learned to cook by
guess" we never heard Of Sl!Ch and
{ such q tool. and we don't want 10 try
tics "ncw-fansied schemes" We re-
fuse 10 wipe these walls OF tradition
Ia our minds. We don't want TO clca II
them or r~renovate them. but want To
live right on. year after year. with the
had years ago.
Assumes New lre,h Ideas.
TINS IS Just the time TO clean
tnward ali our WORK in the home. We
must Inst clean away some OF the old
traditioi>al dust, and br willing TO be
science i,eaye made housekeeping mach
less drutEifying. We m,r't be willing
mt leas, 10 Try new ideas. rev plans
walls musl be wiped down vigorously
$50 that WI can have IN entirely ncw
attitude toward THIS important task OF
tiN3klnB MONIES.
II is a housecican.ug tirne that We
make. as they Say locally, a 'Srca;
.reddinE up" That means that We open
sort boxes and llaVc "a grand
Clearance Of Discarded articles. il we
make q mentai "cican-up' we will find.
~ am sure, some old wornout ideas,
20 tho raSbas. and = great many ways
sand methods which have become moth
,laatcn.
Are We still soinE 10 hold on 70 the
Of h1S.inE he roast and ourselves
'&,vcr a hot fire whcn we could COOK
tstre samc'rneat TO better advantage in a
& Arc We roiuE 30 refuse TO stand
srdize kitchen tasks because we don't
Throw such heliefs and attitudes in
the ragbag and decide 20 keep no
;tn.eatal rubbish. but have a kecner,
ithroueh modern methods.
Il Al housecleani1G time there are
always a few articles which II seems
hard to part witT-thcy are OF no
psc now, buzz; We cant bear 70 throw
Them awdy because We have had them
70 long. Nov take this point OF plan
,oear 70 part win TN. old way of doinR
fasks haphazart. You know. IL you
stop TO think, that X really would he
-irmatically-you ad,nit to Yourself that
~ would be steps and time and eror:
saved; But Just oecau@ you have held
.ht IN oNI' q - - s.taaaF a -
sou can't hca" to part with II.
s BusinessIAc Home.
Then tais pom 81 AeeEins your
,elthout the telling :ha: :: would be
better II you had some kind OF sys-
.en and place tor rccctpts. recipes and
Various information. But YOU continue
10 stuff things here, and lay them
waste time and lose energy
lust heeacse you have done. it So long
Possibly your mental windows al"
very dinsy. You have been thinking
shat housewo-H IS d~TudCoTy. that il
Is a nd Of een!i which hoids You in
cts grip and from which YOU cannot es-
,ccoe. Perhaps Won thought That bust
or some othe- career was much
more ~e1evating and bToaderinE-if YOU
tcould only do SOMETHING else than
shousework. Now INA, attitude Just
Shows that our mental windows need
"a good cleaning and polishing. 50 thar
"a S.cst deal Of suEligh: ana cheer and
.kthlppy feel nG about your work can get
s!Gtc YOU mind.
Y. OF course YOU have mental curtains