RUNNING A HOME.

Northern Advocate, 24 September 1927, Page 4

RUNNING A HOME.

THE USE OF BRAINS.

A great artist once said he painted his pictures “with brains.’ * The grey matter is brought to bear in running a house, and an open mind ready for . any innovation is an excellent possession. At the “Entrance North.” lives a woman who has this sort of mind, and who found a traymobile helped her in her daily round every day.

She had the vision of washing day minus much stooping, and carrying damp loads of clothing.

The traymobile is rolled'" into the laundry, a piece of American cloth being put over the woodwork to preserve it.

When the clothes arc rinsed and blued they are piled on top of the traymobile, pegs placed at one end; then off it is wheeled to the lines.

. No stooping for pegs or lugging a basketful of heavy, damp clothes; every stoop counts like a hundred on washing day. As soon as the clothes are dry, run the tray down the lines, piling them on your friend the traymobile, which has four legs to your two, as well as not being a penny the worse for assisting at what is technically known as a "heavy wash."

WINTER DAYS. On winter days, when a coal fire has kept you warm and cosy in a maid-less house there is always the aftermath of cleaning the grate, Rob it of half its horror, when you rise iu the morning, b.ut putting on the traymobile J s pinafore, so to speak, of stout American cloth, load it with all the necessary implements, stacking the kindling, then a few logs of wood, newspaper to make it burn quickly, brushes to clean with, roll in the indispensable “help,” when all is arranged, put back the ash pan, now full. of ashes, and any other debris, wheel it all from the living-room, and, hey, presto! one despicable task is accomplished. Should qualms arise in your heart at using a very expensive piece of furniture for such lowly “doings,” then keep one for making its appearance laden with exquisitely cut sandwiches, ffalnty cakes, and your pet squat silver, teapot, and invest in a drudge traymobile, ready to help in the endless chores, where a back is saved a heavy burden.

These are the days when your brains save, our backs, and they should also save a valuable asset — tithe.