Study the arrangement of your stove and kitchen furniture, get them in reach¬ ing distance from each other, do not run hither and thither, the whole length of the room, when you are preparing a meal. Such ill planning is the wearing out of many a good hearted housewife. Use your head as well as your feet, arrange and rearrange until you have it rightly arranged. Let every wife, mother and sister, not forget to take some time for reading each day. Xever be so busy that you will not take the time. If you read, you will find at the end of the day that you have accomplished just as much work. Keep pace with your husband and brothers, or they may look upon you as ignorant and inferior. Go out sometimes. Do not al¬ ways stay at home and work. You will get narrow and fault finding if you al¬ ways remain at home, (and who loves a fault-finder?) If fortune does not smile upon you, a neat calico dress gracefully worn becomes any noble, patient woman Remember the recipe of greatest import¬ ance is. Be true to thy God, And May He Bless You. I 1 1* 4 1 APPENDIX. Systemstic Housekeeping. These hints are not intended for the wise “housekeeper who knows it all.” But rather for those who have not liad the needed experience. With thirty-five years experience as liousekeeper I think I can help the young and inexperienced liousekeeper to a system which will be of value to them. It takes years of experi¬ ence to learn the best way to do the best work. And I expect to be plain and practical. So that I can be understood by the humblest worker and if I can make your work lighter and your lives happier, my object will be accomplished. Author, Mrs. Leah. K. Waltz. SUNDAY. I will begin with the first day of the week. For I think much depends on how we begin the week. The mind as w'ell as the body needs rest. And in or¬ der to get the needed rest we must change the scenes from every day work. And I have never found a better rest from my toil than to go to the house of wor¬ ship on the first day of the week, and hear a stirring sermon that gave me new thoughts for the rest of the working days which are to follow. The change is just what every housekeeper needs. And though you feel disinclined in the morning; make the effort, and you will find a rest for your weary body as well as for the soul. MONDAY. Well ! here is blue Monday, as it is sometimes called, and wdth it comes its work. This is wash day to all systematic hou.sekeepers. Never put it off unless your health is at stake. To be sure it can be put off but it is sure to bring double work. We need not make very hard work of it. Here is my best way. Get your wash water over to warm be¬ fore you sit down to breakfast. If not quite w’arm enough when through eating, clear your table, and gather up your clothes to be washed. Soak your clothes in warm water; have some dissolved babbitt lye, put one-half cup to every three pails of water. Soa[) soiled parts well. Put coarse clothes in the bottom of the tub, the fine on top. Blood spots and mud spots should be soaked in cold water Itefore putting them in the w’arm water. Fruit stains should be dipped in boiling water before soaking; very filthy clothes should be washed separate.

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Study the arrangement of your stove and kitchen furniture, get them in rereaching distance from each other, do not run hither and thither, the whole length of the room, when you are preparing a meal. Such ill planning is the wearing out of many a good-hearted housewife. Use your head as well as your feet, arrange and rearrange until you have it rightly arranged. Let every wife, mother and sister, not forget to take some time for reading each day. Never be so busy that you will not take the time. If you read, you will find at the end of the day that you have accomplished just as much work. Keep pace with your husband and brothers, or they may look upon you as ignorant and inferior. Go out sometimes. Do not al¬ ways stay at home and work. You will get narrow and fault-finding if you always remain at home, (and who loves a fault-finder?) If fortune does not smile upon you, a neat calico dress gracefully worn becomes any noble, patient woman Remember the recipe of greatest importance is. Be true to thy God, And May He Bless You. 1 1* APPENDIX. Systematic Housekeeping. These hints are not intended for the wise “housekeeper who knows it all.” But rather for those who have not had the needed experience. With thirty-five years experience as housekeeper I think I can help the young and inexperienced housekeeper to a system which will be of value to them. It takes years of experi¬ ence to learn the best way to do the best work. And I expect to be plain and practical. So that I can be understood by the humblest worker and if I can make your work lighter and your lives happier, my object will be accomplished. Author, Mrs. Leah. K. Waltz. SUNDAY. I will begin with the first day of the week. For I think much depends on how we begin the week. The mind as well as the body needs rest. And in or¬ der to get the needed rest we must change the scenes from every day work. And I have never found a better rest from my toil than to go to the house of wor¬ ship on the first day of the week, and hear a stirring sermon that gave me new thoughts for the rest of the working days which are to follow. The change is just what every housekeeper needs. And though you feel disinclined in the morning; make the effort, and you will find a rest for your weary body as well as for the soul. MONDAY. Well! here is blue Monday, as it is sometimes called, and with it comes its work. This is wash day to all systematic hou.sekeepers. NNever put it off unless your health is at stake. To be sure it can be put off but it is sure to bring double work. We need not make very hard work of it. Here is my best way. Get your wash water over to warm before you sit down to breakfast. If not quite warm enough when through eating, clear your table, and gather up your clothes to be washed. Soak your clothes in warm water; have some dissolved babbitt lye, put one-half cup to every three pails of water. Soap soiled parts well. Put coarse clothes in the bottom of the tub, the fine on top. Blood spots and mud spots should be soaked in cold water before putting them in the warm water. Fruit stains should be dipped in boiling water before soaking; very filthy clothes should be washed separate.

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