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Show I KITCHEN MARATHON Tho average housewife walks two miles a day while she im preparing meals for her family. The confertnre of vocational workers of the South. In Montgomery, Ala., became Interested In home Ubor-savlnir .discussions. A pedometer wan attached to a student In a model kitchen, breakfast, lunch and dinner were prepared. Two mile- over the atove-slnk-pantry-tabW route! Hhe walks fourteen miles a week. 721 miles a year. Add to that the miles she travels sweeping, dustinx. answering door bells, the telephone and the other few thousand of household duties and one estimates that mother crosses the continent con-tinent each year without crossing her threshold. The annwer la, of course, step-earing. N on used rooms, kitchens too large, or poorly arranged, will hsve to go. The efficient housewife will cut out unnecessary steps. This will not be done so much to avoid walking two, or even five miles a dy. for health expert insist that f've miles a dny spells heslth. The hike, though, should be outdoors, not In the kitchen. kitch-en. That's the newer idea; fewer steps tndoois; more outside. |