ABSTRACT
Christine Frederick was an American home economist and early twentieth century advocate of the credo of Taylorism as applied to the household domain. In 1912, she began to publish a series of articles named ‘New Housekeeping’ in the Ladies’ Home Journal. One of the greatest of American failings is to purchase too many ‘things’ which are often neither truly beautiful or useful. One of the simplest things the author did to eliminate lost motion was to alter the place where the kitchen towels were kept, from the hall linen-closet to the kitchen-table drawer. The right tool, the tool that will do the work in the shortest time, is almost as important as are methods that will save time and labor. Too many women put too much emphasis on the tool and too little emphasis on themselves.
