Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-06-21

a greasy dish>cloth was hung in some corner
A Young housekeeper in Canada scrapes
her dishes clean. If she wants them extra
nice she pours hot, soapy water on them, and
stirs them up with rag tied to the end of a
stick, which is miniature mop Mopping,
on the floor, calls forth graceful movements.
There were beautiful examples in the High
School Chapel recently when the young ladies
and young gentlemen mopped the floor pres
paratory for the graduating exercises. The
sight was more pleasing than that of a uniform
ed army ON parade, or handsomer and more life
iayigorating than the Phoenix No. Company
in their attempt to shower the street in front
of DR.. Bakers drug store for the cigars. III
we did not find the mop ornamcnting the
doorway of many Of our neighbours houses we
could not enter them in muddy weather for
we could not clean our feet. Ii is sometimes
put to other uses also Judging by its battered
condition. Its sticky properties are valuable
as well as its ragged edges. Many little
brother in his haste on SUM- Monday morning
has used it for fishing rod and his mother
on his return has found it equally useful in the
application of Solomon's teaching that "the
rod is for the back of fools.o Ii your cistern
has no pump you can tie your pail to the mop
stick. You can dust your floors or white-wash
your ceilings with the same instrument. You
can use it as a carpet stretcher. How could
you stretch your carpets with the dish,cloth?
Miss 3udl came in again to the aid OF her
colleague in behalf of the mop--the mop OF
our grandmothers, and lamented that the
time honored custom of hopping the floors
was dying out The impure airs absorbed by
the arpetings used in tn csc
days a d disease and d e 4 t h fol ! o W.
A floor often mopped is healthier and much
physical good is derived by the hopper. She
called upon her friends to rally round the
mopstick and flourish it aslong as rag res
manned. But Miss Schrener (Emma) thought
differently, DISTINGUISHING comes three times
day. In these days of carpets and mattings
floor seldom needs hopping. Besides, the
disl-rag could easily be made to sake the place
of the mop. OF ali untidy things the mop is
the worst. You hide il behind the kitchen
door but it will not stay there. 1t will soon
turn up in the parlor. 1t never knows its
place and is conspicuous where you do not
want to see it or any of its relatives. She
would rather company would catch her with the
floor uDmopped than with dishes unwashed II
dishes were not clean you could not eat and
would starye to death. We could live
without the hopping but if the dishrags were
never used all would die, population gradually
decrease and finally the whole universe be
without people. 1.-THE floor becomes very dirty
you can take the hoe and scrape it. Would
you rather walk on floor with the dirt three
inches thick to nice clean table, or ON a
clean floor to table where the dishes had
not been washed for month The dish-rag
is very handy to snap over the head. You need
not hunt up weapon, when the old man or the
children come bothering around, but just
square off with your dish rag and they will
soon cut stakes. "Might is right" Some
people also think it convenient substitute
for handkerchief, and there are other uses
too numerous to mention. The debate ended
with the plaudts of the audience and the dish
rag carried aft the palm.