Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-19
SATURDAY.

! When Helen had finished clearing the
breakfast table her mother said to her.
"Helen you needn't come in and heYS
me with the busting this morning. ]
want to make another time test on work
ing through the house the way l did
last Saturday because ! can clean every
thing upstairs today except Betty's
room, and I'll do that when she is down
stairs on Monday"
what shall l do then mother?" asked
Helen. Roger is mending those broken
window shades in the basement; shall
help him."
mo he doesn't need you" replied Mrs.
Hooper, but l want you to take down
all my recipe and file boxes from that
little corner shelf in the kitchen. They
need busting badly because they haven t
been touched during all the time / was
up stairs. When your father comes home
this afternoon l am going to plan some
kind of a real work corner there, so
won't have my account books in my desk
In the living room and my bills in an
other place and my files IL the kitchen"
That sounds like you were going to
build regular work shop right here in
the Kitchen" said Helen.
That's exactly what I'm going to do
responded her mother. "I'll have every
thing in one place then and / have sew
eral new card files that ] want to start,
so that l viii have a complete record of
all the housekeeping business and not
contne my files just to recipes"
i heard Mrs. Campbell telling the girl
at the library desk the other day that she
puts all those recipes that you write
out for her every week into a card file
that she has made out Of cardboard
hnVpG haf h.
and that she didn't think the library files
were bit better than hers"
III have to tell Mrs. Campbell what
l am going to do about my files then"
Mrs. Hooper went on. "She certainly
has changed her house an over in the last
six months"
She's always telling me my mother
is wonder laughed Helen, "and ,hat
you've saved her life and a lot Of things
like that. She doesn't come over here
as much as she used to, though. does
she?"
NO, I don't believe she does" admit
ted Mrs. Hooper
"She used to come over nearly every
morning I remember and just sit around
and talk" went on Helen reulniscently.
as she took the dust cloth that her
mother handed her to clean the file boxes
and shelves.
she used to waste a good deal Of time
then that she puts In now keeping house
In businesslike way" replied Mrs.
Hooper, 'and l think she is very much
more satisfied and content because things
at home run along so much more
smoothly"
That's what she's always saying" re-
marked Helen as she started for the
kitchen.
With the idea in mind Of making a
business" corner for herself in the
kitchen, Mrs. Hooper sent Roger up into
the attic to search out an old wooden
table that had been stored there for
years. It had a couple Of drawers and
was steady and firm on its legs so that It
could be easily fixed up as a desk. and
being small 1t didn't take up much room.
Roger took 1t into the basement and
brushed and cleaned it and tackled a
piece OF black oilcloth on the top with
brass tacks. He then found several
pieces Of smooth boards that would
make a couple Of shelves TO be placed
in the corner above the desk and be-
fore luncheon his mother sent him down
to the hardware store to buy two pairs Of
brackets to be used in putting them
up. He also found enough white paint
left from painting the bathroom to paint
them, after they were in place.
When Henry came home he and Roger
went to work to carry out her plans
while she went downtown to do some
shopping. She had decided on a chicken
dinner to celebrate Betty's coming down
stairs on Sunday.
The menu for the three meals on Sun
day is: