A veteran home manager of Michigan, who states most modern housekeepers are "soft and flabby" and that they "rush and flutter about getting nowhere fast," offers the following by the great Anon for the consideration of the domesticians of today:

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When you come to the end of a perfect day
By Anonymous

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Grandmother on a winter's day
Milked the cows and fed them hay
Slopped the hogs, saddled the mule
And got the children off to school;

Did a washing, mopped the floors
Washed the windows, and did some chores
Cooked a dish of home-dried fruit
Pressed her husband's Sunday suit

Swept the parlor, made the bed
Baked a dozen loaves of bread,
Split some firewood, and lugged it in,
Enough to fill the kitchen bin

Cleaned the lamps and put in oil,
Stewed some apples she thought would spoil
Cooked a supper that was delidious
And afterwards, washed up all the dishes

Fed the cat and sprinkled the clothes
Mended a basketful of hose;
Then opened the organ and began to play
"When you come to the end of a perfect day"

The clipping appears to be about 75 years old, by the state of the art eyeballemetry. -EW

This story was posted on 2010-03-21 18:45:10

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