The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-25
Plea For tidy HOusskeeperS.

| (From tho Phil. Leoger)
Il Is very easy for men 10 find fault
with things about home, and too many
men have made that discovery, much to
the discomfort Of their patient wives.
The deldsion would seem 10 DO prevalent
among the male portion OF humanity
that the household affairs which are with,
in woman's province really require no ar.
ranging or supervision, but operate by a
sort OF self action and keep themselves in
motion. The baulks and worries and TIC
various domestic failures which poster
and annoy the women Of household are
seldom perceived by men, except when
"hOusework," as it Is called, interleres for
a bret time with the male animals COM
fort. lie can see no use In all this wash
Ing and smashing and iusSlng and busting
But he does sec when dust from the iurni.
ture gets on his clothes. or when the table
cloth Is not clean, orSWhen the front win
dows are dirty or tho house untidy when
he brings friend home with him. He
can detect the thousand other matters
which, by their presence or their absence,
disturb his comfort or convenience. But
he cannot see why every part OF the house
cannot DO kept In perfect order, every
meal DO punctually served, every culinary
operation be done 10 q turn, and every
article oil clothing or Of the table iurnt-
ture be kept In complete order, without
turning the house upside down." He does
not see the use Of washing days or "clean.
iDg" dsys-not bel
And SO with the return Of spring your
grumpy paterlamillas begins 10 scowl at
the mops and brooms which come out
with the crocuses and the daisies. And
even the, spoiled boys, hobbledchOys,
young Americans, affect manlness In tOl.
lowing the paternal example, and look
ing furious at brushes and busters, as
though these necessary implements were
contrived as insults 20 the linen" Yet
"in spite oil lamentations hero or else
where" as General Jackson said when he
removed his deposits" the "ladies Of
the house" will put the machinery In mo.
ton to remove the deposits" Of dust and
other undesirables which have accumu.
lated during the late long winter. And
so they ought-as even the men will &C
knowledge when all Is done and the house
Is quiet again.
The laws OF health, no less than a care
for comfort and tidlness, require that even
more thorough cleaning and upturniDg Of
furniture should be done than Is custo-
mary. There Is a closeness and dis.
agreeable atmosphere about the apart
ments Of many houses which is, IN itself,
d sufficient warning to put the besome In
full play, and to rotate" the furniture.
'Table.turning" should be vigorously
done by the medium" OF vigorous arms
and resolute wills, and nothing movable
should be allowed to forget It's mobility.
The researches Of scientific men have
done much to show US that the floating
in tue air Of particles, organic and inor-
ganic, vegetable and animal, visible and
invisible, have much more TO do with
sickness end mortality than Is done by
death in the pot.n Deleterious agencies,
dormant Id the winter, wake in the
spring. When tho frost comes out, gases
and exhalations arc set free; and even
where no frost has found entrance, the
change OF temperature gives activity to
unhealthy agencies. So let the sweepers
sweep and the scourcrs scour, not only in.
doors, but on the premises outside OF the
house walks. A universal cleansing by
all housekeepers, and in all stores, shops,
Offices and cellars, would do for the pub
lie health, indoors. what the street clean
sers should be doing outdoors. The wo.
men are in the right in this as in most
things; and the exceptional woman"
who do tho most at "house.cleaning" are
examples to their sisters-though, like
Mrs. Jos. Gargery, in Dickens novel,
their operations be terrors to "the men,"