The Washington times., 1921-02-20
PLANNING IN HOME
SAVES HOUSEWIVES
Electric Aids Make II Possible
To Operate DomiciIe on
Time Schedule.

The moral Is apparent right In the
beginning. She perished. She was
obrusively clean. She spent hours
OF hard work cleaning her house the
old way with broom, dust rag and
mop. Every room was spick and span
but IL required hours OF EFFORT to keep
each room just so. She cooked on
coal range winter aud summer. Coal
and ashes had To be carried and pots
and pans were always sooty and In
need OF securing. She sighed as she
secured them daily.
MRS, Barton has got a new electric
range" neighbor told her. "snd
wants you to stop In and see IL. but
the worker shook her head and called
il zone 6f them there new contrap-
tons"
She did the family washing and
ironing the old way rubbing the
clothes by hand because according TO
her notion you couldn't get 'em clean
any other way. In summer she ironed
out on the back porch and trudged
wearily back and forth Juggling six
pounds of iron each time, to and from
a hot stove.
She cooked for several farm hands
in addition to her own men folks
during the harvest season, and washed
all the dishes by hand--then sudden
iy. one hot day she dropped in her
tracks. She tried. as they say in
China, To wash the tigers face and
drudgery devoured her. Her home is
the home of the patient. hard-work-
ing farm wife of which there are
many throughout this land.
THE WOMAN WHO PLANNED.
Every room in the home of the
woman who planned was spick ana
span, but instead OF the old-style
broom and mop she used an electric
cleaner. She had an electric wasner
for washday, two electric irons. one
a laundry iron the other a pressing
iron for her sewing room, but the
pride and Joy of her heart was her
Kitchen. She too had cooked on
coal range with its ashes and SCOT
and slow fire. Then she saw new
electric range, noted it's easy opera
ton, it's conveniences and above All
it's cleanliness. prevailed upon her
husband to purchase II for her ana
all the utensils were bright, SHINING
and sootfree.
She did the planning using her
head first, then by pushing button
she set electrical hands to doing the
really hard work for her. she De-
lieved that every great thought or
feeling has it's origin in the nome
and she believed in saving enough
time out of her busy days to devote
to her children. She Thought that
more time should be given to develop
ing the character of the home ana 10
it's human output-children.
She even found time to write Tor
her favorite woman's magazine no"
and then something like this: There
are two kinds of drudgery that stand
out very clearly in my mind: the con- =
slant performance of servile labor
that makes one feel like slave. and
the necessity of toiling at something
into which the heart does not enter.
The remedy is to provide ones sell
with righ tools, and hard-workinS
conditions demand efficient tools. TO
get the most out of machine one
must use ones head and have the
most in ones self. !. e., TO plan the
work of the home and endeaVor 10
follow the plan intelligently with the
aid Of electrical hands that are no"
so available. Suppose my WORK does
not go smoothly every day. that Is no
reason why ! should abandon my plan
of work. Railroad trains are often
DELAYED and very late in arriving al
their destinations, but | have never
heard of any announcement that be-
cause many things interfere with
their time schedules, 1t is Impossible
to have a time schedule. Stick TO your
tipna schedule