The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-23
Efficient Housekeeping
By LAURA A. HERMAN.
4 HOUSEWORk SCHEDULE
 MAKES YOUR WORK EASIER

 Here is a good housework schedule for the woman wno has no maid to heIp her. For all days of the week except Sunday, Wash Day, Ironing Day and Baking Day, proceed as fol- lows: Get breakfast, put up school or business lunches, clear away dishes (washing them), then do the ordering by telephone (for, few women who nave time or strength to go to mar ket in person..
 The next step is to make up the bed rooms. School children who are cid enough, should be encouraged to try to make their own beds before going to school. The man of the family, or boys over eleven years of age, should bring up buckets of coal from the cellar to help Mother, and carry down ashes. Mother cannot be expected to do it all. She needs all the help her family can give her.
 Next. clean one room. If one room is cleaned a day (except on the days menuoned above) the dust and dirt will never ''get ahead of one.' Each day crumbs around the dining table should be swept up, however, to pre- serve the rug. Have a small bell on the kitchen table for the grocer's boy to ring when he brings the groceries: this saves the housekeeper from hay ing to listen for him-and perhaps miss him; she can then pay him and can also put in the ice box all per
 
 brought. This is the time too, to put over the fire any luncheon food which requires long cooking Then go back to the task you were per forming and finish it before setting the luncheon table and completing | luncheon.
 i After clearing away the luncheon dishes, the housekeeper should lie down in her own room If she can not take nap she can read book | or magazine and get her mind off her sff for to while fo If she has young
 them in pen on the floor of her room, or let them play around If i she has no small children, and prefers | to go out-perhaps to the movies or i to shop or make a call-she really ought to have a ffreless cooker in the i kitchen in which to start some din- | ner dish such IS an Irish stew or 1 long coOking-then her dinner will be
 ready when she returns late in the ! afternoon.
 After resting awhile. if she stays | home, she can get some of her sew | ing and mending done. Then comes i the getting of dinner and clearing it
 away. After dinner, whatever else l she does, she should take time to 1 plan out tomorrow's menus and make 1 her ordering list from that; this will | make tomorrow mornings work run ! more snoothly-for none of us can ! think out just what we want when we are in a hurry. Some housekeepers, ! indeed make out menus for three | days in advance, having their order i ing list cover the foods needed Ior these three days. In that way, they : have to order only twice a week, or l three times at the outside On Wash Day, Ironing Day and Bak- i ing Day, however, the room cleaning often the d-making-must be sidetracked until these three bigger i tasks are accomplished. The room 1 cleaning must generally be omitted, | in fact. for the housekeeper must | think of her health and not drive 1 herself too much. And these 1 three hardest days of the week. at l least she should try to lie down in the afternoon, not go out and exercise more.
 1 Of course, reader friends, I know l that you all have some special duty 1 that other housekeepers may not have l (for few cases are exactly aHke), ana i this schedule may not fit your needs | exactly But I hope it will help i somewhat, at least.
 i Tomorrow-Answere Letters. | All inquiries addressed to Miss KiII<rnan in care of the EEfHcient 1 Houselxeepino'' department will be an- i severed ir, these columns in their turn This requires considerable time. how ever owing to the great number re- ceived. So if personal or quicker reply is desired stamped and self addressed envelope must be enclosed with the uuestion.-The Editor.