The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-07

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be noted also that the various duties
mentioned as a possible part Of the
days work would not all be included
in any one day.
1t is sunrise on a summer morning
and a full days work is facing the
farm woman. OF those who answer
ed the questionable about so per cent
arc up at 5 o'clock. All must rise
early as the average working day is
1912 hours at this season of the year.
The men arc on their way to the barn
to feed the stock. Sixty-onc per cent
of the women after lighting the kitch-
en- fire must go to the pump or spring
an average of do feet distant, to bring
water for the morning meal, The
tea kettle filled, the fire burning, and
the hearth brushed, 81 per cent may
enter the poultry yard to feed the
birds that are Justify calling for their
breakfast About La per cent of the
women report hired help for about
three and one-half months in the year
They may delegate the poultry feed
ing to the helper, or, while 3G per
cent of the women take their pals
and go to the barn to assist in milk
ing the half dozen cow (the average
numbcr), the helper may be setting
the breakfast table. This meal is en-
joyed by a family averaging five per-
sons.
She Turns to After Breakfast Tasks.
Breakfast over, the dshwashing is
to be done; over 5000 of the women an
swering include in this work the wash
ing of the milk pals and 5,703 wash
the separators. If there are children
in the home, a pause is made in the
household tasks to get them off to
school; lun must be prepared, for the
district school is on an average 1 1-2
miles distant.
The farm woman turns again to her
routine duties. There is scvcn-room
house (average) to be set in order. A
covering on the kitchen floor in sd per
cent Of the homes reduces dcspiscd
scrubbing. Rugs and carpets require
brushing. To aid in this ID per cent
of the women have vacuum cleaners.
The beds are made and at least one
half hour is required for filling, trim
ming, and cleaning the lamps in the
70 per cent Of homes where lamps are
used.
1t is now time for some special task
of the day. Nincty-four per cent of the
women make part or all Of the family
bread, so it may be baking dac; or it
may be churning day, for the 60 per
cent who do this work; or it may be
the day for the weekly washing, done
at home in 96 cases out of 100. For
the 13 per cent having no washing
machines, the tub, board, and boiler
are brought into use, and where water
must be carried, unless the man of the
family brings it in, the woman must
pump and carry it pail after pail, as
required. Running water is found in
oiy pei CcllI Ol IHcSc nOnoS. In 4o
per cent water is obtainable by some
arrangement in the kitchen.
After dinner has been prepared,
served, and the wishes washed, the
overenergetic woman may attempt
some Of the weekly ironing. In that
event, 26 per cent will have a gas or
electric iron to accomplish the task.
Part of the afternoon may be con-
sidered time of leisure, with nothing
more arduous to do than the family
mending, which occupies an average
o fthree and half hours a week, or,
as 90 per cent Of the women do some
or all of the family sewing, part of the
afternoon may be given to that duty.
The program for today may not in
clndc the ironing, baking, or mending.
but rather trip to town, about miles