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SHORT CUTS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 31.

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“SHORT CUTS.”

By Minerva T. Bascom

MINERVA T. BASCOM.
(North Branch, Iowa.)
Having noticed a mention of “short cuts” in housework in the REVIEW, I thought the following suggestions might be helpful to some of the younger housekeepers:—
Have your salt and sugar near your flour and kneading table. Keep some salt near the cook stove.
Keep dish towels, kitchen aprons, and all cloths used about the kitchen, in the kitchen. Likewise keep tablecloths and napkins near the dining table.
Keep the children’s clothes in the room in which you usually dress them.
Keep brooms, mops, etc., near the place where the most cleaning has to be done.
All utensils used about the cook stove should be put as near the stove as possible.
Everything used in sewing should be kept together.
In fact, everything about the house should be kept as near as possible to the place where it is most used. This saves both time and strength.
It is a saving of time and fuel to have the water for washing the dishes heating while the meal is cooking.
In the summer prepare your vegetables out of doors, and thus gain some fresh air for your lungs.
When you bake bread, use the heat of the top of the stove for cooking grains and vegetables, or for ironing.
When your wash boiler is on top of the stove, bake something in the oven.
A stove is easiest cleaned when the fire is started, before it is very hot, and yet when it is not cold.
When you make every-day clothing for yourself or the children, use something that will wear well.