Three Sisters, a Study in June Sunlight,
(I know they aren’t exactly in the midst of homemaking but it is lovely isn’t it?)
Women in our history seemed to have had endless energy. Not only in keeping their homes but in caring for their families.Let us not for a moment think that historic homemaking was a romantic easy pastime. For it was extremely hard and never ending work.
We are very blessed in this day and age to have many tools of convenience making our homemaking easier, quicker, and more efficient. What homemaking tips can we learn from these women of the past? What homemaking tools and words of wisdom have been lost in the advent of chrome and batteries?
Welcome to my Vintage Homemaking discoveries.
As Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe so aptly put it…
"while they sympathize with every honest effort to relieve the disabilities and sufferings of (women), are confident that the chief cause of these evils is the fact that the honor and duties of the family state are not duly appreciated, that women are not trained for these duties…and that, as the consequence, family labor is poorly done, poorly paid, and regarded as menial and disgraceful."
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First let us never imagine for a moment that vintage homemaking was an easy task. Times were hard, chores were many and conveniences were few, but sometimes with grace and elegance women found the way to manage.
True some had maids or even slaves but I digress…
While "performance of the duties of a [homemaker] may, to some minds, perhaps seem to be incompatible with the enjoyment of life. " let us put this myth to rest and find enjoyment in caring for our homes and families in an old fashioned way with knowledge from Vintage Homemaking.
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