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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 27, 1910 
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The Family Doctor 
Father Is Taking His Medicine 
Authority and rebellion are both writ¬ 
ten upon the faces in the accompanying 
picture; a picture of a strong man be¬ 
come again a child in the face of an 
emergency which calls out all of mother's 
self-reliance and her faith in those meas¬ 
ures with which she has so often combat¬ 
ed an oncoming cold or the approach of 
“chills and fever.” Father, whose “will 
has always been law” in the family, now 
finds that all along there has been a 
stronger will than his, a will never self- 
assertive and always concealed behind 
womanly tact and motherly love, but one, 
nevertheless, that has seldom yielded 
when the real interests of the family were 
at stake. The frown upon father’s brow 
will deepen into something like a scowl 
as the bitter spoon is held to his lips, and 
he will cringe as the contents of the steam¬ 
ing kettle are added to those of the foot 
tub, but he will not withdraw his feet 
or refuse to swallow: he is now in the 
hands of mother. 
We should like to think that it is the 
family P.ible that lies open against the 
calico comfortable; more likely, however, 
the marriage vows, he will now obey 
mother. M. R. D. 
Let Dishes Dry Themselves 
A time and labor saving idea has very 
recently come to my attention, and I make 
haste to pass it on, for these days are all 
too busy ones to permit us to do all our 
own work, do it well and have time to 
take part in the activities and affairs of 
life which are as much a part of our work 
as the more humdrum and accepted ones. 
It is in a nutshell—that I do not dry my 
dishes. I let them dry themselves! To 
tell about it is more complicated than ac¬ 
tually to do it, but that small saving of 
time and labor three times a day, not to 
mention the saving of washing dish towels 
on washday, makes it well worth while 
for anyone to give it a genuine trial be¬ 
fore passing upon it. The first time I 
tried it I found it more bother than the 
old and accustomed way, but now I would 
not go back to the other way. any more 
than I would prefer candlelight to elec¬ 
tricity. I wash m.v glasses and silver in 
good soapy water and have a basin of hot 
water into which I plunge them, putting 
them on the drain, If there is someone 
else in the kitchen (or if you have a child ) 
I have them wipe them and then I can 
continue undisturbed. As they are hot 
they dry quickly and easily. Then I 
throw this hot water into my dishpan and 
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Father Is Taking His Medicine 
it is the leaves of “The Family Doctor” 
that father has been turning over in the 
hope of finding something that fits his 
case. But the real family doctor is at 
his side; a book can prescribe, but it 
cannot administer the medicine; mother 
can do both, and the absent boys and 
girls who now head families of their own 
would smile if they could but peep around 
the corner and get a glimpse of the ex¬ 
pression which so often adorned their own 
faces when mother approached with bot¬ 
tle and spoon. Why the things which 
must be taken for your own good are al¬ 
ways bitter, while those which appeal to 
your taste are generally bad for you is a 
problem which only the mature mind can 
solve, and there are evidences that even 
gray hairs sometimes rebel at this appar¬ 
ent law of nature. 
But there is anxiety now in mother’s 
heart that has seldom been there before. 
The oft-recurring sicknesses of the chil¬ 
dren were to be expected, and recovery 
confidently looked for, but she realizes 
that time has set its deepening mark upon 
both father’s head and her own, and that 
the day cannot be far distant when one 
must precede the other to the waiting 
land. There is untold tenderness behind 
the lines which mark her face with reso¬ 
lution, and the steadiness of her fingers as 
she counts the drops into the spoon has 
no counterpart in her heart. The resist¬ 
ance of youth can no longer be counted 
upon when sickness threatens, and even 
“colds” bring forebodings which it is diffi¬ 
cult to stifle. There will be no trifling 
with the first symptoms of illness here. 
Father may frown with all the impa- 
tiuence of a strong man forced to yield 
to physical weakness, -but, regardless of 
fill the basin with cold water. As each 
cup and dish is washed I repeat, plung¬ 
ing them into the cold water and placing 
them in the draining basket, continuing 
on through the - pots and pans. I then 
throw out my dishwater, wipe the pan dry 
and I am through for that meal. 1 wash 
the dishes with an idea of stacking them, 
and after a few times it is surprising how 
easy it becomes. Cups and bowls, of 
course, must be turned upside down ; in 
fact, the idea is that the dishes are to 
drain and dry. which they do by the next 
meal time. The dishes must be well 
washed with good soapy water, as there is 
no towel to rub off specks, in itself not a 
sanitary way, at best, yet one too often, 
resorted to, and when I see the dirty dish- 
towels in restaurants I fully realize what 
a boon the cold water drying is for clean¬ 
liness. The neat stack of dishes is not in 
the way, and when time for the next meal 
it is but the work of a minute to place 
the shining dishes on the shelves. Some¬ 
times I can use many of the dishes and 
do not need to place them upon the shelves 
at all, but carry them to the table. 1 be¬ 
lieve if housewives would try this idea 
faithfully for a week, adjusting it t<> their 
own individual kitchen and needs, there 
would never be another dish wiped. It is 
not wise to despise a few minutes’ time 
any more than a few dimes and quarters. 
They sum up to make the day, just as the 
nickels and pennies make up the dollar. 
If only three minutes are saved at each 
dishwashing three times a day, it means 
r>4% hours in a year, and, after all, that 
is a good deal of time, for. as always, 21 
hours make the day. and we want to get 
time for the little and needed things we 
would otherwise have to neglect, a. B. J. 
