INTERESTING ITEMS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 581, 3 December 1904, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

HAVE PLENTY OF HOUSEHOLD IMPLEMENTS.

The sooner a woman learns that makeshifts, which only wear out her strength, are not economies, the better for her and her family. Many housewives worry on from year to year with gadly inefficient, household tools, and reduce themselves to wrecks after a few years. Their families gain nothing by it, arid lose much. Labour saving appliances are (cheap in the end, and a woman should insist on having them, so that she may preserve her health and temper for. her family's sake as well as faer own. The farmer's wife who does a farge family ironing for years with two irons is not a model of economy and patience, but a simpleton. It is pitiful, almost heartbreaking, to think of such a waste of time and strength on the part of a human being. Some women will spend the whole day at the wash tub instead of buying a wringer that would save their wrists and backs, and be less injurious to the clothes than hand-wringing. After all, a woman is not a drudge, and no housekeeper whose kitchen is properly supplied with good tools will find the housework beyond her strength. On the contrary, it becomes a pleasure, and. the pro-perly-constituted woman will take a keen pride in keeping her house, and particularly her kitchen, in spick .and span order. Beginners in housekeeping should remember, however, to begin well. If they begin with makeshifts, they will probably continue with them to the 'bitter end. Household utensils are cheap enough nowadays, and with care will last a lifetime, so there can be no excuse for muddling along with clumsy, Had tools, A good workman, however poor, will have