. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. Eds. Ageiculuueist: I am very much inter- ested in the "Domestic Department" of your paper, but am very much surprised how little interest is taken by the women in it. In go- ing around to the farmers' houses, it is a con- stant source of surprise to mo to see how inconvenient the kitchens are, and how much useless labor the farmers' wives and daughters do. Now, I will venture to say there is not five complete kitchens, in ranch houses, in Santa Clara
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. Eds. Ageiculuueist: I am very much inter- ested in the "Domestic Department" of your paper, but am very much surprised how little interest is taken by the women in it. In go- ing around to the farmers' houses, it is a con- stant source of surprise to mo to see how inconvenient the kitchens are, and how much useless labor the farmers' wives and daughters do. Now, I will venture to say there is not five complete kitchens, in ranch houses, in Santa Clara county. And what is more, there is not one out of a hundred women that spend their lives doing house-work who knows how she wants a kitchen arranged to be convenient. There is as much difference in woman's work, between doing it easy and making hard work of it, as there is in a man's using a scytlie or mowing machine. Why, even in putting in a sink, where they have (ini, it is left to the car])enter, so that instead .of a low, long and wide sink, with a pitch to drain it prouq)tly, the carpenter puts m a nice little thing, so high as to bo iiiconveuient,and closed up beneath flush with the front, to pre- vent a person standing close to it as they had ought to to work easy, and so level that the water will be hours running oS. W. A. T. Paeageaphs Woeth Kemembeeing.—Ben- zine and common clay will clean marble. Dieting will aid you in removing pimples. Caster oil is an excellent thing to soften leather. Spirits of ammonia, diluted a little, will cleanse the hair very thoroughly. Lemon juice and glycerine will remove tan and freckles, and will cleanse and soften the hands. Stains on wall paper can be cut out -n-ith a sharp pcnkifc and a piece of paper so nicely inserted that no one can see the patch. A good, cheap paint for floors is made of five pounds of French ocher, one quarter of a pound of glue, and a gallon of hot water. When well lU-ied, apply one or two coats of linseed
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