First, for the day’s routine: 1. Before leaving your room in the morning open the bed and the windows. 2. Light the kitchen fire; put the breakfast to cook, fill teakettle with water, and place on kitchen table the things needed to prepare breakfast. 3. Sweep the sitting room. 4. Set breakfast table, make coffee …
Drudgery! It is an old-fashioned word that we rarely hear today, but a century ago, it was used a great deal to describe housework in general, and often Spring Cleaning. In 1926, a woman from Iowa wrote, “True, we have vacuums, dust mops, electric washing machines, and washable floor coverings…but there always will remain, to …
More than 90 years ago, Alice Robinson from Ohio won first prize in a contest where she was asked to describe her “Prince Charming.” “If you had asked me not too long ago, I would have said that he had to be tall and dark with wonderful brown eyes. But he has come and our …
We had a bumper crop of potatoes last fall. In spite of my conscientious efforts to work them into meals all winter long, here we are on the verge of spring with two full bushels still to go. It seems like their eyes are sprouting daily. We’ve generously disposed of some of them onto unsuspecting …
