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Information for Consumers By Ruth M oyle suggested in this issue We would go into the kitchen to take a look at ways and means found there. that could help us conserve some of the housewife‘s time and energy and, I hope, health and strenght. Now I find I’d like to postpone that particular visit for one more issue. Instead I‘d like to tell you something about Dr. Lillian Gilbreth. the famous mother of the famous twelve in “Cheaper by the Dozen." A few summers ago I had the good fortune to meet Dr. Gilbreth. Dr. Gilbreth is far from being the crisp, very efficient type of person you might connect with rigid time schedules and time and motion studies geared to management in industry. She is rather a very warm, human, comfortable person, one who must be a won. derful grandmother to the children of her “dozen.” At a conference I attended this summer I met a Home Economist from Connecticut who has been working with Dr. Gilbreth on energy con- servation in the home. We were all delighted when she told us one of Dr. Gilbreth‘s plans for the future (she is now well over eighty!) is a return trip to Russia “as soon as she can find time, in the next three or four years!" My first thoughtâ€"probably it is yours tooâ€" "How in the world can one person accomplish so much?“ My next, “What a wonderful example of a strong personal belief that the more time and energy you can conserve while doing the routine jobs around the house, the more time and energy you will have to enjoy the many interesting and worthwhile things there are be- yond our routine activities." Dr. Gilbreth has many excellent suggestions to offer on how this might be done. If you have read the story, or seen the movie of “Cheaper by the Dozen” you‘ll remember that the death of her husband left Dr. Gilbreth with the full care and responsibility for the twelve children. To earn the living for the family she carried on her hus- band‘s workâ€"engineering in time and motion, and in labour saving methods. In doing this. Dr, Gilbreth put into practice in her own home many of the theories and methods they had worked out for industry. Their first step, for example, was to decide as a family. together, which activi- ties around lheir home were unnecessary and of least value. These they discarded. The remainder they looked at critically. How might they com- bine or simplify them? One principle accepted by the family was “Two pairs of hands are better than one." Working in pairs, Dr. Gilbreth found, cut down time and labour. For example, two pairs of bands can make a bed in no time flat. There were other advantages. too. Bedmaking IN THE last issue of Home and Country I 18 soon became a time when Dr. Gilbreth gunk] visit and chat with her helper at the same llme she was instructing in the technique of my making. Another rule accepted by the famih: W H you have an unpleasant job to do. ch00» ,t pleasant a place as possible to do it in. And still anotherâ€"Alternate work with .1, Dr. Gilbreth is very emphatic about this. E .L. a pleasant spot somewhere, where you can \l or just a minute or so before you get tired. Dr. Gilbreth set up a group of “What? i. A When? How? Where? and Who?" question Hr our guidance. For example, What? What dm in: job accomplish? Is it something really ne. 1-} Does it make anyone happy in doing, or i, ,1. joying the results? Why the job? We should look at our objo. \, and rate the importance of one over another. When? First find out how long it takes to the job. and then fit it into our time schedule How? This, of course, is the chief in. it work simplification. It also gives the ansv g the question, Where? Who? That helps us to decide how much c and energy We can, or should, expect from t I) in the family, Here is a quote from this world-famous t\| ur and Engineer that answers very well the \- tion I‘m sure many must ask: “Why all thi- s and bother about work simplification?" Dr. l- breth says: “Work simplification in the home is of :t importance. What takes place at home not f» makes for happiness or unhappiness there. :1 influences very member of the hon» at throughout the entire day . . . Good ll' .- keeping and good family relations send p. re from home ready to work, and welcome 5 in back ready and able to rest." ‘k at * DISCIPLINE By Bob Adams If you have kids you have to train them. You have to check them and restrain them Or other folks will want to brain them. But be not grouchy, mean and "sot" Nor yet too free with “no” and "not." If folks keep saying, "Don't, Bob, don't," I much more likely will than won‘t, But if, to check my wicked ways, Some other, nobler task they praise, Then say to me, "Come, Bob, let's do it." I rise right up and go right to it. \Vhen our boy Jim was ten or 'levcn, To live with him was short of heaven. Sidestepping books and useful labors He was a scandal to the neighbors. But now no more we jaw and scold him; In 4-H club work we‘ve enrolled him. He has a garden twelve by fifty; His cukes are crisp, his onions nifty, This gives as food in many messes And keeps him clear: of cussednesses. God made our kids so full of pep, They cannot keep our sober step, And, whether kissed or whether cussed, They're baund to either build or buSI- * * 1' HOME AND COUNTRY