UNNECESSARY HOUSEWORK.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 3, 15 April 1893, Page 12

UNNECESSARY HOUSEWORK.

It takes some good judgment on the part of the housekeeper to know where and how to slight her work. We see housekeepers who go through their daily and yearly round of work, doing all things well, and doing the unimportant things as well as the most important ones. Such a housekeeper, if she does her,own work, is of course a drudge, as any person must be who lays out the same amount of effort on all things, regardless of the results, and who neglects nothing that may b.e made a subject of work. Some housewives have a faculty for making work where there is no need for it; they are naturally industrious and love cleanliness, and their life is a constant warfare against a speck of dust or a misplaced chair or something else "that offends the imagination more than any requirements of their existence. With these people the game is too often not worth the powder that they expend to bring it down. They are not discriminating in the application of their labour, and are just as likely to direct it where it shows no result as where it does. These women never say die, and if their back is broken their spirit is not. Their treadmill is largely of their own creation. There is housework that is really created by the worker. , The science of housekeeping calls for the suppression of work as well as for its correct performance, and those housekeepers who are incessantly planning work might better lay their plans to make some of their work unnecessary.