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Show Heart Association Offers Hints for Housewives Homemakers who simplify their work save energy. And doing things the easy may help some women to save their hearts. Here are some tips the Utah Heart Association provides on how to make housework easier. Planned especially for cardiac housewives who have been advised ad-vised to "take it easy," these hints are useful for any homemak-er homemak-er who wishes to accomplish her many tasks successfully and still have time left over for family fun and recreation. See if your life isn't made easier by following these simple suggestions: Pace Find your own rhythmic, rhyth-mic, relaxed way of doing things and stick to it. Playing music while you work may help you relax. re-lax. Hasty thinking and hasty working seldom accomplish what you want. Planning Use tables on wheels. They are good for assembling and transporting food, dishes, groceries, groc-eries, cleaning supplies, laundry, and many other things from place to place. They save heavy lifting. They also provide welcome extra work space where it is needed. Save steps by organizing jobs so that you stay on one floor of your home or in one area of your apartment apart-ment until the job is finished, if possible. Cleaning Make sure you're using us-ing the most convenient appliances you can afford. Long-handled dust pans, brooms, mops, etc., save much stooping. Two dust mits, one for each hand, speed the cleaning chore. Assemble and keep all cleaning supplies together in a basket. Sit to Work Sit to work as much as possible You can sit to iron, clean vegetables, feed the baby, wash the dishes, make marketing mark-eting lists, and do many other tasks. At the Stove Store seasonings, serving dishes, and utensils needed at the stove right next to the stove, on easy-to-reach shelves. You may find open shelves preferable because be-cause they make it easier to get at supplies. Many utensils, such as stirring spoons and pancake turners, turn-ers, can,be hung on walls near the stove. Having a stove with a high oven eliminates stooping. At the Kitchen Sink The right height is important. If your sink is too low, you strain your back by stooping to do dishes. A rack in the sink underneath your dishpan will raise it to a more convenient height. If the sink is too high to sit at comfortably in a chair while washing dishes, use a kitchen stool with comfortable leg rest, preferably prefer-ably with a back support. Scald dishes and let them dry. Center your vegetable and fruit preparation around the sink and have knives, strainers, etc., handy to it. Ironing Sit down to iron. The chair should support your back and be a comfortable height to enable en-able you to to use the same arm movements as when you stand. First, assemble everything you need within easy reach. Place dampened clothes at your left (preferably on a portable table), and set at your rigcit a rack to hold itoned clothes. Other helpful hints, a complete motion study check list, and suggestions sug-gestions for efficient kitchen arrangements ar-rangements are included in a booklet book-let titled "The Heart of the Home." Your Utah Heart Association, 250 East First South, Salt Lake City 11, Utah, makes this booklet available to all homemakers interested in-terested in saving energy by sim-I sim-I plifying their work. |