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Helen S. Stabler asked for information
with regard to the suction cleaner, as yet
no very good, inexpensive one seems to have
been put on the market. The “O-Cedar Mop”
was praised. The best floor oil was said to be
made of turpentine and parafine oil in
equal parts, - a floor oiler was recommended
as a great help in saving time and strength
and it is inexpensive.

Eliz. T. Stabler gave “Ten Commandments for
the Good Housekeeper”.

#1 “Thou shalt have no greater love than thy household.”
#2 “Thou shalt not make graven images of the way other women live.”
#3 “Thou shalt not use thy husband’s money in vain.”
#4 “Remember the Sabbath Day is a rest day for thy household.”
#5 “Honor thy labor and love it and thus make the cooks return
from wandering and the domestic service cease.”
#6 Thou shalt not kill thy family with rich cooking.”
#7 “Thou shalt not permit rich adulteration.”
#8 “Thou shalt not steal thy neighbor’s cook.”
#9 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor’s house-keeping.”
#10 “Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor’s,
but live thine own honorable life without
ostentation and with Simplicity. Thou shalt then
become a joy and a delight to thy people, and a
house-keeper who need not be ashamed.”

From Good Housekeeping, Mar. 1913.

Sarah T. Miller gave first a letter from The
Florence Crittenden Home asking for contributions,
and secondly an amusing parody on “Annabel
Lee”, – “The Cannibal Flea.”

Eliz. Iddings had a curious division of life
by Lord Kuntsford a grandson of Sydney Smith.

He said if one lived to be 72, as he had done,
27 yrs. would have been passed in sleeping,
9 yrs. in eating, the same at dressing, and
in walking, drawing and visiting, - 6 yrs. in shopping
6 in playing with children, and 3 yrs. in quarreling.”

Rebecca T. Miller told of the satisfaction
they have at Mt. Airy in a wild-flower border
around their porch.

Corrie M. Brooke gave from “The Outlook”