The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-25

This being done, the brooms were again
dipped to cleanse them, and the sweeping
began. As often as they grew heavy with
mud, or the dust began to fly, they were
redipped; and so the work went on until
the floor was ready for the mop.
We'll, ma'am," said Maggie, cuthusi-
aStically, II would never have believed i.
Why. | am as clean" %surveyin" her cloth
ing, AS if | had only swept the carpet.
The only trouble is the nasty mud stick
ing to ones feet. But sure, it's better to
have a little dirt underf0Ot than a vast deal
cvorywhere.'
The neX step in order was to thorough
ly dust down, with a feather-duster. the
walls and all wall fixtures, including the
backs of the pictures, and all corners and
inches where dust could have possibly
smuggled itself.
Washing the floor being next, that it
might be drying while the rest of the
cleaning went on, Maggie proct edcd to DO
it according to directions; which We're. to
be rapid, and wet as little as possible, that
it might dry quickly, while wife came into
the library to rest.
Maggie, having understood that the
windows were o to follow. presently
appeared with. And shall | fetch the
tubs to the room, ma'am, or take the win
dOwS to the kitchen%'
Neither, Maggie replied wife, bent
on yet further surprise. "YOu, may, how
ever, bring from the kitchen two chairs,
two pans of clean warm water, with soft
clean cloths, hard soap, and three or four
soft. white d~ish-tOwels."
Maggie departed in a gratifying state of
establishment and made all things ready.
You may clean the glass first, while
your towels are quite dry, and that the
windows may help dry your floor" said
wife, re-entering the room. "Now bring
a chair for yourself, as you can sit down
to this and rest"
Then removing a window, she so adj
justed the chairs containing the pans of
water as to bring them to Maggie'S right
hand, and placing one corner of a sash on
one of them, and another on Maggie's lap.
babe her wash each pane by itself. first in
the sudS. then rinsing nicely, wipe as if it
were a plate, using care to touch every
corner, and polishing at the last with a
perfectly dry towel. "Ifthere We're a con-
venient table in the room, and the win
dows We're large, | should have you use
that instead she added.
Mag@ie'S cXclamatiOnS were amusing,
but NOT pertinent, and | pass them.
After a time wife went in t. note her
progress.
Sure" said Maggie, and this is the
knitting-wOrk of housekeeping. But
how beautiful it makes them, They are
like air, and | nave nearly done"
Yes" replied wife it is the incest
as we'll rs the quickest and easiest way |
know OF TO clean windows. And you may
do the paint in precisely the same manner,
as it is equally nice for that. And then
90 and have your dinner while your floor
finishes drying
After dinner my wife went in to teach
Maggie her Enack of sitting large handfuls
of straw to the floor in a way that renders
it perfectly even. Then the carpet, which
Michael, the gardener, had thoroughly
whipped with a small sapling, from which
every twig and knob had been smoothly
whitfield, was brought in, folded as when
it went out, and the unfolding process,
which is precisely the reverse Of the fold
ing, took place, scarcely disturbing a
straw.
But how am | to manage this carpet
I,,;.~, ,n,N,r, ,rIn, rhnr, $50. ,,,+ 1870,
OF u.s." questioned Maggie, apprchen-
sively.
You are to walk with one ri lii
agOnally, crosSwiSe, you know replied
wife, (which amounts to nearly the same
thing. Two are better. however, and YOU
may ask Michael to assist you in replacing
all the large ones"
Maggie was then Instructed in the use
of the carpet Stretcher," and, with a few
charges relative to keeping it true. left to
her own devices.
By five O'Clock the room was thorough
ly reIrabilitated, having been Us thorough
", quietly and ~methOdically cleaned Is ii
is possible for a room to be.
If this article should secure the adoption
of my wife's method of hOuse-cleaning in
to. now and then, a home throughout the
land, it would prove a miniStratlon OF
peace and cOmfort-ifn not indeed of absO-
lutte mOrality-which would compare not
untayOrably with more p%retentiOus agen-
cies.-G. H.. Tracy. IN Hearth and Home.
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