The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-04-23
House, Cleaning.

cleaning, to be sure, but we take the lib
erty OF making few suggestions abou
the best way to do it, Nearly everybod,
does 1t the way We recommend, so o
course it must be right.
ln the first place, then-never clean on,
room at a time. 1t is too much trouble
aud 1t doesn't seem as if so much is beins
done. Upset the whole house from atti,
to cellar. Tear up the carpets-take
down all the curtains, and bedsteads anC
stoves, and fling the whole concern out o.
doors to air Nothing like thoroughly
airing things If it rains, as most likely
1T will, and the house should be chily
without the stoves, let the family fy
round and he p clean ! That will warm
them up if anything will
Have soap dishes aud plates of sand in
every room. Leave some pieces of soap
on the stairs. If anybody falls over then
it will be a good lesson-it will teach
them to look before they leap, next time
Always begin your house cleaning with
nothing cooked in the house Dieting
once IN while is conducive to health
and if any Of your family should con
tract the snail pox directly afterward the
cold tea and hard tack o! house eea nip q
will be found to have been an invaluable
preparation of the system fer the disease.
a low diet previous to small pox sickness
prevents pittiug.
Have the dining table covered with
| books, and vases. and brackets, aud bed
stead casters, and looking glasses, and
fat irons, and crockery, and sofa Eilows.
and jars of pickles, and lamp shades, aud
thousand other trihes which have been
thrown out of their Legitimate places by
the house cleaning, and then you can eat
of a -four barrel in the pantry. 1t will
save work, aud be so cosy.
Scold all you want to. A woman has
carte blanche at such time to put her
seoldiBg machinery at full speed No
man who had not the heart Of Nero
would wish her to hold her peace at this
time. Soap suds and scolding Invariably
go together. Who can tell why?
When you begin to put things to rights
after the scrsbbing your patience will be
sorely tried Thomas will have to be en-
listed to held put down the carpets and
tx the curtains.
The tacks will all be crooked, and some
body must go for new ones. There will
be rips in the carpet TO sew up. There
will be signs of moths, and pepper must
be called in to disgust them. Thomas
will sneeze, and wish the carpets in-some
other place. Then putting down begins
The hammer will come Of from the
handle, AID you will raise a blood blister
on your hand trying to fasten ii on By the
help of nail and the carving knife
sharpeuer. Thomas will have mud on his
boots, and leave the print of his foot Oh
the pale lavender roses in the carpet Men
with muddy boots always step on the
iightest colored spots in u carpet.
The bedsteads will all have swelIed with
washing, and have to be pounded together
Two or three casters will be missing
After you have searched for them couple
of hours, you will fud one in the jar of
ounce preserves and the other down Gel
lar 10 the coal bin. The third one will
not turn up before the next heuse-clean-
ing revolution takes place.
The cat and the dog have fed.
The canary has sought his very highest
perch, and sits there shrinking into his
yellow feathers, not daring to say-nee
nee ever SO family, until this domestic
earthquake has runblcd itself away.
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Carpets are down, curtains up, bed
steads got together, beds are made, and
the refreshing smell of soapsuds is every
where
Your house is clean. Yes, indeed
You ache in every nerve and sinew.
You feel as if you had been taken apart
by blacksmith and put together with
red hot darning needles in all your joints
Your hands are blistered, your finger
nails torn down into the "quick," " you
havc taken cold in your head, aud freckled
your nose with beating carpets in the
sun, but never mind Your house is
cleaned
And you call Thomas to look around
and see how nice il looks, and he, uDfeel-
ing wretch says he don't see but it looks
Just as it did before.
Then you go to bed is huff, and
dream of striped snakes and yellow boa
and wake 10 the morning |
more dead than alive-but
your house is cleaned.-Kate Thorn, IN
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