THE SAVINGS BANK OF THE HOME.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 October 1908, Page 11

THE SAVINGS BANK OF THE HOME.

A saving of time means money, say the .wise, and this is none the less truo with a saving of bodily strength and mental worry. Any consideration which will effect economy in these matters will bring to the hard-worked-house-mother a due amount of interest; if not more money, then more of money's value. It is those women who havo many burdens to carry that it most behoves to wisely consider any method of lightening their load of care; those who havo many little child-lives to care for, probably in houses planned with every inconvenience; those who have only an incapable maid, or perhaps no maid at all, to share the burden; or those who have the harassing care of weakness and ill-health to contend against. Yet all of these can find a way to case these burdens and so make "a broader margin" to their life. First' of all, we must remember that successful housekeeping means a healthy, happy, well-fed household. ■ Sccon'd, you can rarely have one thing or the other if the house-mother is overworked and; overstrained. ■ . So the question resolves itself into the very practical ono of relieving the possible strain, either by (1) increasing the income and the amount of help, (2) decreasing the amount of work and the anxioty necessary. Nine times out of , ten, in the latter way lies our only hope. Tho necessary sheep must be separated from the unnecessary goats, which should then be sent to outer darkness. By this Pmean you can't leave undone the sweeping or tho dusting, but you can see that tho room is so simply furnished that valuable time is not expended in moving furniture this way and that for tho convenience of the broom or the sweeper. You can insist that the duster can do its work with few movements, and is not retarded by the constant lifting up and setting down again of innumerable ornameuts. Tho beauty of strict simplicity is not only becoming widely known, but is very fashionable. It is like those muchadvertised articles that are "once tried, always used I"