Show r rf Saving labor saves expense y A conf coff correspondent respondent esponde nt of the germantown tele 4 graph offers some valuable hints on a branch of domestic economy which we regret to say is ii loo too often overlooked namely a judicious labor labo 1 r sav saving baving 1 ng system in our home arrangements eo 0 far lar as practicable and a strict adherence to order havinga place for everything and everything in its place none need presume that to accomplish all this this i a vast amount of capital is required the homeliest homel hom eliest lest iest cabin in the land may be a pattern of neatness order and convenience if the work is persistently set about but in erecting t habitations it is frequently forgotten that even eve n a very few simple and perhaps rude but ingenious fixtures will add immensely to the order and dafid comfort of a family and greatly iese leise lese nithe nue labor of the industrious housewife house wife whose chose work in opposition to the ennui of the would be lady bady who thinks it derogatory to 4 be hi er dignity to soil her tiny hands with honest toil toll it has become proverbial is never done doubtless no little owing to the small care commonly exercised in planning for her convenience some houses that we have seen and some of them externally good looking edifices we have thought ought 0 to be built over again at the expense of the thoughtless architect who devised the plan such establishments may be justly entitled to 1 the ex expressive cognomen of women killing i institutions n aitu ittu eions for after filling up the ther live long day in the performance of their incessant routine of domestic labors the poor woman or hired servant as the case may be fatigued fat aed and careworn having had no precious pre clous cious mo moments of leisure to devote to reading or other means of storing her mind with information so requisite to the development of the intellectual faculties whereby many are doomed to a mortifying ignorance of the most commonplace common place matters who had opportunity been offered might have qualified themselves as angels of truth to impart I 1 in 1 their sphere the counsels of wisdom and prove an ornament to their sex slie eh e retires to her couch with the consoling thought that after all her work is never done 1 the writers hints relative to laborsaving labor saving baving i g machinery and more thorough culture of lands are to the point we adopt them as four gour our sent bent sentiments imenes 1 but farmers and others read for yourselves I 1 by having a place for everything and keep I 1 ing 9 it there many steps will be saved and that weariness and stupidity stupidly BO so often complained 0 e grea d diminished minla hed if ot entirely tn dispelled id e the adoption 40 no 40 of f improved dei det demestic domestic nesti c mach machinery anery now available is another mode of reducing the care eare involved in the mana management ement of ahome acome a home to our knowledge few fg farmers have yet supplied their wives with a comple complex r men ment t or of the most simple and economical culin culia ary inventions invent in venti fons ons the disproportion oh between the house and farm in utensils is apparent where do y you 0 u find similar attention paid to each does not feminine delicacy demand it ahr why not provide bar tar ovide the sewer and the washer as wel wei well weil as the mower and thrasher Is woman more able to use the needle and washboard than man to apply the scythe and flail there is another method by which a vast amount of the toil toll and fatigue consequent to this 1119 pursuit may be lightened indeed this is the most universal an and permanent cure for that drudgery ery ya in the known world it is 19 simply this farmers must lessen the number of hands required in order that cooking washing etc may maybe be decreased we do not say the crops should be neglected or culture less thorough h but the number of acres tilled must be fewer and more fertile A majority of farms are too large for profit one hundred acres producing each thirty bushels of wheat or fifty of corn or four tons of hay as the case may be will clear more dollars in a year than double that number with half the crops if it requires four hands to work a farm of two hundred acres three would cultivate one hundred with more ease in many instances the wife and daughters or either would be able to do all the housework saving the expense of a servant and the husbandman might dispense with an expensive workman hence this would be beneficial and physically si john johnson whose success in agriculture ia Is familiar to your readers lately became exemplary by disposing of either one third or one fourth of his farm eim dim to facilitate the improvement pro of the remainder many luany in this country who have sold their entire estates and moved to the city or village to avoid the charu charge and perplexity incurred when a sede n ta tarynne ry f e was unfit yes unnatural for men of their activity and vigor have become discontented and longed for the old homestead how much better to have divided the farm rented a portion and devoted the evening of life to the most healthful most useful and most noble employment of mall maly man to the novice in this vocation and those about to engage in it these remedies of domestic drudgery will we hope be seasonable and iemand practical tactical rac to sum up if economy and health demand it or the latter alone let machinery be substituted for nerve and muscle either in or out of doors let heavens first law rule in all ail operations have a small farm well weil tilled lied a good wife well willed and you will have a large barn well filled 71 if there are any who have doubts as to the practicability of the above we suggest that they make the trial of a f few ew it if not all of the hints thrown out and our word for it they will not re regret ret it |