The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-13
The "Plsen. Clean" Woman.

Cleanliness an excellent acc uirelnenJ.
1t is so great an requirement that one
does not wonder that the sentence
"Cleanliness i, next to Goodness" was
popularity supposed, for an indefinite
period,ato be quotation from the BIZ
BILE. Cleanliness is the chief distinction
between the ramp and many million
aires who could not claim even this adj
vantage over the tramp. But the SEN
tence, Cleanliness is next to Goodness, y
cannot be foun1 in the Bible, neverthe-
less. You cannot have too much Godli-
ness, too mud temperance, too much
discretion, too much wisdom, but you
can have toe much neatness. There
have been ove-neat men. We have met
one or two in our time. They always
get up in the night to eat, and are enc
mics of sleep as they are of dirt. But
they are not 50 numerous nor pestiferous
as the overnest woman.
Who has not met the overneat woman}
We do not need to describe her. But
we will. Revenge is sweet. She makes
her husband exchange his boots for slip
pers on the door step, no matter how
low the thermometer or barometer, the
poor fellow must dof his boots In the
porch. Is he wet? He must stay on
the stoop till he has done dropping
Consumption What is that compared
with soiled carpet? The small boy,
what life he leads with such mother
Followed about by dust pan and
brush, and scolding voice (the hyper
neat woman is always cross) all of child
hoods days, he early runs to club
room or beer saloon where he can see a
little rubbish and find the luxury of
dirt. We once knew lady of this
character who, when lightning providen-
TALLY struck her house and killed SER
want, swept up the evidencing dirt the
shock had dislodged, before the coroner
could be called.
These "pizen clean" women always
hate to have company. Guests are so
dirty, YOU know" The parlor is kept
dark and unused from year to year
The carpet would fade apd dust would
accrue We once knew a woman who
refused to open her parlor for the we'd
ding of her daughter. "The street is
too dusty" she said She is dust now.
They opened the parlor for the funeral,
and one almost wonders that she did not
turn over in her coffin.
The overneat woman cleans house
twice year. Twice a year the uncom-
Portable husband and children are made
doubly uncomfortable. The weakness
of the flesh alone deters her from house
cleaning every moon. The overneat
woman delights to make people uncom
Portable She is thin, dyspeptic, has
nerves, is troubled with dirt on the
brain. Dirt on the brain is very wear
ing on the constitution, and the hyper
neat woman nearly always dies young.
If she did not, nearly all her household
would. Her husband always has an
other chance. This is dispensation Of
Providence We write with some feel
ing on this subject, although, thank
God, we have only seen the overneat
woman afar off. But we have seen the
lives of good men emblttered, we have
seen boys driven to ruin, and girls i'm
bued with such hatred of cleanliness
that they have become very slatterns, by
overneat wives and mothers
All, mothers, do not mind a cluttered
floor, little gravel or sand on the
carpet, finger mari; on wall paper or
mirror The dav may come when q
little dirt spread by baby feet or laid on
by busy baby fingers would be the glad
1act ,;rL+ in fle world