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Show SCHEDULING THE HOME MAKER'S DAY Makes Work Run Smoothly and Reduces Some Tasks. (Prepared by tho United Siatoa Department of Agriculture.) Scheduling nil the time-taking activities activ-ities of the household makes the work mn smoothly and shows the home maker how she can reduce the amount of work to be done, says the bureau of home economics, United States Department of Agriculture, A time schedule Is ensy to prepare. The bureau bu-reau says to begin by making a list of all activities that go on In a successfully suc-cessfully run h&me. Some occur every ev-ery day or several times a day. Others Oth-ers are once-a-week or one-u-month tasks. Then estimate the time needed need-ed for doing each one. Don't forget to Include some periods of rest and leisure, time for Irregular work, and some minutes every morning and afternoon for the ever-occurring but never:expected Interruptions of housekeeping. house-keeping. Next distribute the"' work and other periods by- days of the -week- arranging arrang-ing 'them In the order they occur, and with' regard"- to the fixed activities that must be -considered meals, chll-' dren's. naps or. school hours, the time th'e" niah of the house gets home from work, rising" time, bedtime, the best' hours of the day to devote to . the. Iongheavy?6ncea-w?efe'Jobs-;ir may be jiecessnryw to-. rearrange the'lday's work somewhat to lit everything in )Mogiet up a : irttle eaflfert or shift .the dJriner hour'a"bIt,'Fut It can be' done. ; , Some, of the-i customary tasks" can be done less frequently without detriment-"to the' famliy well-being. Some can be done more ' efficiently ; some need not be done as painstakingly as once seemed necessary ; some can be cut off the list entirely by turning . them over to others In the family, or by using a commercial service or a ready-made product. Such changes can be-made little by "little, until the home, maker who always felt driven by her work suddenly realizes that she has released a good many scattered scat-tered hours and minutes to do the things she has always wanted time for. |