15-HOUR DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 9

15-HOUR DAY.

WOMAN'S SCHEDULE. | ! WORKS 12 AND RESTS 3. FAMILY LIVES IN FLAT, I called recently on Mrs. George Gordon, Beauford Street. Chelsea, to find out how she schedules her day. writes a woman reporter in the "Daily Kxpress." Mrs. Gordon's husband is in the building trade. Their children are Stephen, aged four, and Topsy, aged six. They all live in a three-roomed flat. This is Mrs. Gordon's time-table: — 7.15 a.m.: Get up, wash, reach kitchen tying apron strings. 7.30: Put the kettle on, lay table for breakfast. Between times dress the children, tuck handkerchiefs in their pockets, sit them down to breakfast. 8 a.m.: Sec husband off to work, finish breakfast with the children, take them to school. 9 R.m.: Home again, start housework. There are dishes to wash. l>eds to make. fliKirs to clean, clothes to launder, layers of dust to attack. II a.m.:' Go shopping: walk another half-mile to save tuppence on a joint of meat. Mid-day: Start cooking dinnermeat, vegetables, pudding. 1 p.m.: Wash children, serve dinner. 2 p.m.: Straighten living-room, washup, iron the morning's washing. 3.30 p.m.: Ready for a rest or a walk. 5 p.m.: Get tea for the children. fl p.m.: Get tea for husband. 7 p.m.: Wash children again, give them supper, put them to bed. Polish their shoes, straighten living-room again. 8 p.m.: Settle down to talk over knitting. 9.30 p.m.: Get supper, wash-up. straighten living-room once more. Wash hair, mend clothes. 10.30 p.m.: Go to bed. Her working day has lasted about fifteen hours, with three hours off for relaxation. Said Mrs. Gordon: "I'd like three more hours in every day."