One of the greatest helps to the housekeeper is the pad and pencil to which she has frequent recourse.  The use of this handy aid to the memory can very quickly become a fixed habit, and is a labor-saver as well as a short cut to the possibilities of more work and more play for a busy woman.

A pad and pencil being in the kitchen receives the household necessities of food as they appear, and renders fewer trips to the grocery necessary or the visit of the grocer’s cart at a city door more than once in the day, which should be all-sufficient for any ordinary home.

A pad and a pencil on the bureau may receive the outline of the day’s work while the house mistress is going over it in her mind while dressing, and makes sure of the thing which may be so easily forgotten when the stress of the day comes on.

A pad and a pencil on the desk may keep track of the unwritten letters, the unpaid calls, the general wants of the family and a host of trifles that can be accomplished as well as omitted, and she who learns to work with this faithful friend at her elbow very soon finds it an indispensable companion.