Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-01
READERS CLEARING HOUSE
Here II Really Is

Mrs. r. J. B., Washington
On Friday, January %, 1858,
an article appeared in the
Clearing House by A. DIS. of
Gainesville entitled How 1t
Really Is" This article en-
joyed great popularity, but
copies are becoming scarce
and I. for one, would like to
read the original article again.
Here it is:
From the number of moth
ers who write RICH request
ing household schedules and
the great many replies, de-
duce that mine is not the only
husband who insists a wom-
ans work would get done if
she'd only organize.
We'll. fellow child raisers,
take heart-you have a sched-
ule. I've been keeping house.
mid sundry other activities. for
seven years now and had
schedule every single day!
Here's how: About midnight,
when you're almost through
for the day. sit down and
make a list of what you ought
to do tomorrow. Next, go over
the list and heller SHELTER de-
lete at least so items. prefer
ably those that can't be ac-
complished in less than an
hour per. Take the remain
ing / or 200 and schedule one
chore every 5 minutes, start
ing at 6 am. and ending no
later than midnight always
leave time for beauty Sleep.
Start the next morning by
getting up, clean up the un-
holy squalor the kids created
before you arose, dress the
kids, throw something on
yourself, make breakfast, feed
the baby, eat, settle four or
I'VE disputes of the children
during breakfast, read them a
story to quiet them down, play
with the baby, put the kids
shoes back on, comb girls
hair, feed the dog, administer
nose drops to children need
ing same, answer the tele-
phone, pick up the glass baby
broke while you were talking,
burn the papers, go see draw
ing sister made. explain to
Junior where the moon goes
in the morning, go erase sis
ter's drawing off the wallpa-
per, go see little sister playing
boat, stick some clothes in
washer, go wash shoe marks
out of bathtub sister was play
ing boat in. put the other kids
clothes back on, change dia-
pers, fix baby a bottle, tell
brother to keep out of flour
tin, start on breakfast dishes,
sweep flour off the floor, start
lunch. answer door. get all the
kids back in the house, take
wet shoes off. put burned lunch
food in garbage, make sand
witches, feed kids-whip out
schedule and revise list. Take
the 80 or so items you never
got to and put them on the
afternoon schedule. Anyone
knows you can get a lot done
when the kids are asleep.
Tell kids time for nap. get
hairbrush and repeat infor-
nation; explain why nap is
necessary, wash faces, take
off shoes. put in bed. Come
downstairs and breathe sigh
of relief go up and put
kids in bed, come down and
start on lunch dishes. go up
and put kids back in bed. lock
their doors, come down and
finish dishes. empty garbage;
time for kids to get up; sister
has splotc hes. probably
measles. put her back to bed.
dress other kids, brush their
hair, change baby. play with
baby briefly. go turn shower
off, take of brothers wet
clothes, put on dry. take soap
away from baby. make brother
return sisters doll. give sick
one aspirin, yank covers up
over beds and start dinner.
everybody eat. clean up what
wasn't eaten of the floor, feed
dog, put kids shoes back on,
settle current disputes. start
on dinner dishes, take hus-
bands newspaper. glance at
headlines. borrow husbands
belt and announce bed time to
children. drag up stairs. wash
them, scrub their teeth. I'M
dress. put on p.j.'s. listen to
prayers. depart, come down
and get schedule. Delete first
$50 items entirely. If you're
quick you'll get two or three
Of the remaining SO items fin
ished by curfew. Don't worry
about all you didn't get done
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