Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-06

whelming load Of drudgery. The
pathos is intensified by a tin can
with a beautiful red geranium on
the window sill, the last desperate
effort of a sinking soul.
Only one who has lived on a farm
and who has participated in some
way in the routine of the days
work can have a real appreciation
of the endless round of duties of
this poor wife and mother on the
farm The value of her work can
never be estimated. The editor of
the Farmers Wife" tells us of a
woman on a farm who walked
twelve miles a day, when doing
only her average daily duties of
homework. Totaled up she covered
an average of 400 miles in month
hold your breath-she circum-
scribed the globe right in her own
home.
In no other undertaking is the
necessity for cooperation on the
part of all members of the family
so urgent, as in this program for
the improvement of the home and
its equipment.
homework is unattractive and eX-
hausting. The comfort of a well
planned house has not been given
consideration; economy of time and
energy have not been factors in the
building; while the poor arrange
ment of the kitchen is perhaps one
of the most encouraging features of
the average home farm. Inadequate
and poorly arranged equipment
makes the daily preparation of the
meals or the doing of the weeks
wash a greater burden than these
duties should be. The absence Of
sink and running water necessitates
lifting and carrying heavy buckets
full of water in the kitchen, and is
not in keeping with the use of i'm
proved machinery outside the house
on the progressive farm. Labor
saving devices should be installed,
and a schedule of tasks worked out
so other members of the family
share the work Of the housewife.
It is quite possible, too, to make
the home surroundings much more
attractive, to improve sanitation so
as to make the place more healthful.
A clean, Well-kept backyard, beauti-
full with trees, lawns, and flowers,
add not only to the value of the
farm, but enriches the lives of the
members of the family and instills
a love for life in the country. The
attractiveness of the farm home and
its surroundings will do more than
any other one thing to keep boys
and girls contented on the farm.
fluence for good. Forms Of beauty
differ greatly in their effect on
persons. Children especially are
wonderfully affected for good or i'll
by their surroundings. The great
est influences are probably seldom
realized at the time they are eX-
erted.
A sanitary backyard bespeaks the
sanitary conditions within the home.
Exposed kitchen waste, and unsani-
tary toilets, are an, invitation to
flies and mosquitoes and possibly
other household pests which need
healthful living is given any
thought. Even poverty is no excuse
for unsanitary conditions. Ignor-
ance alone is the reason for it.
The need of beauty and sanitation
is not limited to the outside. The
interior of many farm homes could
be made much more comfortable
and attractive by a little time and
energy applied.
Born and reared on this farm of
forty acres, the daughter of the
woman whose natural love of
beauty had been crushed beneath
an overwhelming load of drudgery,
finally becoming mistress of the old
homestead, determined not to en-
dure the Embellishments of the
old house, which her mother had
quietly accepted.
I. First she gets the cooperation
of every member of the family, and
together they plan a three-year pro-
gram Of work, with the help of a
good fairy, the home demonstration
agent.
2. They take a survey of the needs
of the home and list them.
3. They classify these needs into a
three-year program placing first in
order those most urgent.
4. A definite part of this plan is
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year.
The Three-Year Program of Work
First years work in outline form:
1. Screening the house.
2. Changing the kitchen.
(a) Rearrange with special view
of saving steps and right height of
working surfaces.
(b) Supply the kitchen with better
equipment.
(c) Provide sufficient light and
ventilation.
I'D Provide convenient and ade-
quate storage space.
(e) Make walls sanitary and at
tractive.
(G Buy and make labor saving de-
vices.
(g) Make fireless cooker, iceless
refrigerator, sanitary fly traps, fold
ing ironing board, fruit and vege-
table dryers.
Ch) Install homemade water sys-
tenn.
D Paint kitchen floor and make a
mop for cleaning it.
Cd Purchase oil stove and steam
pressure cooker.
3. Clean up all unsightly and I'M
sanitary places.