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Show THE KITCHEN MARATHON The average housewife walks two miles a day while she Is preparing ! meals for her famil. The Conference of Vocational Workers of the south, in Montgomery . Ala, became interest ed In home labor-saving discussions. ' A pedometer was attached to a stu-dent stu-dent in a model kitchen, breakfast, lunch and dinner were prepared. Two miles over the stov e ?mk pant ry table route! She walks fourteen miles a week,' 728 miles a ear. Add to that the m li-s sweeping, dusting answering door bells the telephone and the o'her few I thousand of household duties and one estimates that mother crosses the continent each year without crosj-inc her threshold The answer is of oourse flop saving Non-used rooms, kitchens too large or poorly arranged will have to go. The efficient housewife will cut out unnec- ' esaary steps This will not be done BOj much to avoid walking two or eren fl five miles a da lor healih experts In -1; t that liv e mile a da spells health. ! T.ie bike though, should be outdoors, not In the kitch'-n That's the newer ! idea; fewer steps indoors: more out |