The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-25

CLEANLINESS Il an excellent AeQuiremsht.
Its % great an requirement thAtone does
not wonder that the sentence "oleanll.
neSB Is next 10 GodlinCss' was populatly
supposed, for an indefinite period, to DO a
quotation from The Bible. Cleanliness q
the chief distinction between the tramp
and many mIllionairOS, albeit there have
been many millIonalres, who could not
claim even this advantage over the tramp.
But the sentence, Cleanliness isnext 70
GodlInes6, !" cannot be found IN tho Bible,
nevertheless. Y0u cannot have too much
GodllnesS, too much Temperance, too much
discretion, too much wisdom, but you can
have too much heatness, There hRvO been
OYOFneat men. We have met one or Two
10 our time. They always get up In The
night 10 eat, and are enemies Of sleep as
they are OF dirt But they arc not 30 ND.
mefous nor 10 peSliierous Is tho oyeEueAt
woman.
Who has not mel the oyernsat woman
We do not need 10 describe her. But we
will. Revenge Is sweet, She makes her
husband exchange his boots for slippers
on tho door step. No matter how low the
Thermometer or barometer, the poor iel.
low must doR his boots III the porch. Is
DO wet2 He must stay On the BtO0p TIL he
has douo dripping, Consumption What
q that compared with 4 S0llel CaFpet2
The small hoy, what q lilo he leads With
such motheFl Followed about by dust
pan and brush and scoldlng voice The
hyperneat woman Ia always CROSSE oil Of
uhIldhOod's days, he early runs 10 a club.
room or q beeT.sal0On where he can see q
little rubbish aud nnd the luxury Of dirt.
We once knew lady Of this character
who, when lightning provldenlially struck
her house and killed servant, swept up
the eyilencing dirt the shocs had dis.
lodged, before the coroner could be called.
These "piEen.clean" women always
hate 10 have company. Guests are SO
dirty, you know" The pArlor Is kept
dark and unused from year 10 year. The
carpets would fade and dust would accrue,
We once knew u woman who refused 10
open her parlor for the wedding Of her
daughter. 1.-THE street Is too dusty, y she
said. She Is dust now. They opened the
parlor Tor the funeral, and one almost
wonders that sue did not turn over In her
coffin.
The oVorneat woman cleans house twice
0 year. Twice year the uncomfortable
husband and children arc made douhly
uncomfortable. The weakness Of the flesh
alone deterS her from housekeeping
every moon. The overneat woman de-.
lights 10 make people uncomfortable. She
Ia thin, dyspeptiC, has nerves, Is troubled
with dirt on the brain. Dirt on the brain
Is very wearing to the constitution, and
the bypcrneat woman nearly always dies
young. II she did not, all her household
would. Her husband always has another
chance This Ia q tiiSpensGtiOn OF provi.
dence. We write with some feeling on
this subject, although, thank God, we
have only seen the oveFnGat woman Atar
OF. But we have seen the lives OF good
men embitteTed, We have seen boys driven
to ruin and girls imbued with such a
hatred Of cleanliness that they have be-
come very slatterns, by overneat wives
and mothers.
All, mother, do you mind clutlered
floor, q little gravel or sand on the carpet,
4 hnger.nark on Wallpaper or mirror?
The day may come when q little dirt
spread by baby feet or laid on by busy
baby fingers would DO the gladdest sight
In the world.
eve wandered round thS room,
No relic could Ws dad;
No toy Of hGFA u sOOlh0 our glOom-
She left not one bOblnd.
"Ilut IOoi there L. mIlty trsc,,
Faint, undohne'l and br6ksn,
VI huEefb on the mirrors face
A dear though SiuP'e token"