forth *in a day. One morning I counted 20 times. One way that 

 housewives may save many steps is to have one of tiioce kitchen cabi- 

 nets that hold all the flour, meal, spices, etc. Dare I say tliat the 

 men can help more than anyone else to save steps ? They can 

 lighten our work by encouraging and praising us. If one of those 

 lords of creation conies in and doesn't even say one word, but smiles, 

 picks up the water bucket, and brings in a lot of wood, or takes up 

 the ashes, how pleased we are ! But if lie comes in and takes the 

 last drop of water out of the bucket that our poor tired hands have 

 drawn and brought in, that doesn't save steps. Still we perhaps 

 would be too tired to notice this, if he would only not say, ' I never 

 come into this house but that the water bucket is dry ! ' If in 

 -taking the water, he would say, ' How nice of you to have water 

 right here for me ! ' I really believe we would feel compensated for 

 our extra labor." 



Wealth to the farmer to save his wife^s ste_ps, — " I think it very 

 considerate to wish an estimate of the housewife's steps taken in 

 the interests of her husband's prosperity on the farm, or rather, of 

 the husband's and wife's prosperity. I deem it wealth to the 

 farmer whose wife's steps are made few, and everything about the 

 house as convenient as possible, securing her health in order that 

 she may be the helpmeet of her husband." 



Build the sinA' and tahles high so as to avoid stoojjing. — '' There, 

 should be hooks near the sink for the large dish pan, the handled 

 dish cloth and a shelf of the height of the sink, which should be so 

 high as to reach nearly to the house-keeper's waist so as to save her 

 the painful stooping and also protect her from the slopping of 

 water. A liigli stool should stand in every kitchen upon which the 

 mistress can sit while compounding bread, cake and other foods, 

 washing and wiping dishes and cleaning vegetables." 



Suggestions by the Editor. 



Dog on the churn ^u^orlts ^nechanically . — The dog on the churn 

 keeps his feet continually moving, without making any headway. 

 The floor beneath moves under him, yet he is at the same point in 

 relation to other objects as when he started. When the dog is 



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