Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
FRIDAY.

There Is no use in talking" exclaimed
Mrs. Wright, when the group Of club
women had assembled for their weekly
meeting and Mrs. Hooper had ushered
them out on the cool shady porch, the
difficulties that surrounds the business of
keeping on a time schedule when you are
doing your house work make it mighty
discouraging."
Il agree with you" spoke up Mrs.
Owen and there was a disheartened note
In her voice 1T is all very well 10 put
down on paper the statement that you
will be finished IN the kitchen and be up
stairs making the beds at a stated hour
every day, but when you try 10 live up
to it you End that you haven't allowed
nearly enough time for anything"
and watching the clock seems to make
housework more Of drudgery than
ever complained Mrs. Wright. IT didn't
get anywhere with my experiment this
week
What seemed 70 he the particular
trouble:" asked Mrs Hooper. Did you
find that the special weekly tasks still
crowded out the regular routine work or
did you have difficulty with the original
outline: - She sensed that the task Of
converting these women to a systematized
plan cf doing their homework so that
they would help her in her big object OF
convincing all the women members Of
the club that It was the proper way to
manage a home, was not to be such an
easy one, as she had at first supposed.
She realized that each one Of them with
the possible exception Of Mrs. Campbell
and the Bride would have to be reasoned
with separately before she would become
the enthusiast that would be a real help
in making the work Of her economic sec
ton Of the Woman's Club a success next
winter.
Mrs. Wright took the schedule they had
outlined last week and prepared 10 ex-
plain her own special trouble with It.
This schedule may be all right for
your house, Mrs. Hooper" she began,
but il won't work in mine"
"Of course you all understand" in
terrupted Mrs. Hooper. that this plan
of work fits one particular set Of con
ditions which happens TO exist in my
household. As the majority Of US have
1.-THE same size families and a similar type
Of house snd have no small babies. or
ilvalids. the schedule as it stands will
at least furnish the basis upon which each
one Of You can make a working outline
that win 1T the conditions in your indi-
Vidual households"
well that's just it." exclaimed Mrs.
Wright helpleSsiy, IF We begin to
change IL where should we start and
isn't it reasonable 10 suppose that the
whole thing viii fan to pieces as a rlace
for standardizing our homework II we
attempt 10 fit IT TO our individual needs. %
Not at ALL" insisted Mrs. Hooper
1--WE will show YOU now by reconstruct
ing your schedule so that II viii 1T the
special conditions existing in your home
that the idea is practical"
well for instance" pointed cut Mrs
Wright. ct would take me "a very great
deal longer 70 do my cleaning than IL
does YOU Mrs. Hooper. because I have
three or four times as much furniture in
each room as you have. Therefore the
time set down on this schedule for clean
ing upstairs and downstairs Is altogether
too short"
well" said Mrs. Hooper smiling. the
best way to adjust 70 that condition is
to eliminate some Of the furniture-you
probably have a great many unnecessary
things in every one OF your rooms. Ny
whole house used to be crowded up that
way until I went through IL systematical-
" and cleared out everything that we
didn't actually need"
"Oh. I don't believe I could weed out
nv things that way. I have so much
sentiment about them. Besides Mr.
Wright IS so fond of the old things
that we've had for So many years. that
don't believe he'd consent to their be-
ing disposed Of"
"He'd probably object at first" OBJ
served Mrs. Chaplin. My husband made
a dreadful fuss when I cleared out the
stuffed ducks AMI the mounted deer's
heads which We're his trophies OF the
hunt, and that had adorned our dining
room for tifteen years because he was
SO proud of them. But the room looks
so much better since I've removed all
that trash with which it was filed that
he is delighted and actually asked me
the other day, why in the world I had
kept it around so long-when I would
have thrown II away years ago but for
the fear Of hurting his feelings"
Il had the same difficulty with Mr.
Hooper before I consigned an awful as
rOrtment OF family crayons to the attic"