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Page 237 - The author of this work was led to attempt it by discovering in her extensive travels the deplorable sufferings of multitudes of young wives and mothers from the combined influence of poor health, poor domestics and a defective domestic education.
Page 238 - ... systematically taught (not practically, but as a science), as much so as political economy or moral science, or any other branch of study; because it embraces knowledge, which will be needed by young women at all times and in all places ; because this science can never be properly taught until it is made a branch of study; and because this method will secure a dignity and importance in the estimation of young girls, which can never be accorded while they perceive their teachers and parents practically...
Page 232 - The simplicity in material surroundings which will most free the spirit for the more important and permanent interests of the home and of society.
Page 46 - Ladies and gentlemen," he was calling, "come in and see the great African crocodile. It measures 18 feet from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail, and 18 feet from the tip of its tail to the tip of its nose, making in all, ladies and gentlemen, a grand total of 36 feet.
Page 159 - putting it up" to the employee to do his work with such stimulus as may be given through force or inducement, the management, under the new science, assumes the responsibility of enabling the employee to work under the best possible conditions of perfect team play It undertakes to instruct him definitely what to do and the best method of doing the particular work. It undertakes to provide him with the best tools, and with machines in the best condition. It undertakes to furnish him with assistance...
Page 23 - She had already given the answer in her articles beginning with dishwashing: ' For years I never realized that I actually made 80 wrong motions in the washing alone, not counting others in the sorting, wiping, and laying away. 19 'Do we not waste time by walking in poorly arranged kitchens? . . . Could is Frederick, Housekeeping with Efficiency, New York, 1913, preface. i9 Frederick,' The New Housekeeping,' The Ladies Home Journal, vol.
Page 43 - The worker does not have all the needful tools or utensils at hand before her when she begins work. Therefore 2. She wastes time and effort walking to, hunting for or fetching ingredients, tools or materials she neglected to have at hand when she began the task. 3. She stops in the middle of one task to do something else quite unrelated. 4. She lowers the efficiency of good work by losing time putting tools or work away, generally due to poor arrangement of kitchen, pantry, and closets. 5. She uses...
Page 238 - When young ladies are taught the construction of their own bodies, and all the causes in domestic life which tend to weaken the constitution; when they are taught rightly to appreciate and learn the most convenient and economical modes of performing all family duties, and of employing time and money; and when they perceive the true estimate accorded to these things by teachers and friends, the grand cause of this evil will be removed.
Page 46 - Frederick's account1 of the organization of the worker's path in the case of a kitchen. She writes : I recall a young bride who recently showed me her new kitchen. "Isn't it a beauty?" she exclaimed. It certainly had modern appliances of every kind. But her stove was in a recess of the kitchen at one end. Her pantry was twenty feet away at the opposite end. Every time she wanted to use a frying pan she had to walk twenty feet to get it, and, after using it, she had to walk twenty feet to put it 1...
Page 232 - ... phase of home-making. The authors hold that Harmony will be the keynote of the home in proportion as the makers of the home regard the plan, the sanitation, the decoration of the house itself, and as they exercise economy and wisdom in the provision of food and clothing. " Home Economics stands for the utilization of the resources of modern science to improve home life," and to this end homemakers should be conversant with modern scientific thought on matters domestic.