Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-26
HOW TO DUST A ROOM.
A Woman Who Thinks There should BE
Method in Thi. as i'm Oth.r NNnrI

A Woman Who Thinks There should BE
Method in This As i'm Other Work.
The feather buster is an abomination, writes
Christina Terhune Herrick in a recent mum
Der of The Housewife. In the hands of a
careless houSemaid it is firted among the
furniture, up about the picture frames, down
amid the chair rungs, into hooks and corners
scattering the dust everyw here, brushing the
impalpable powder from one spot and driving
1t into another, until, when the maid retireS
from her labors, all the dust in the room has
changed it, place, while but little Of il has
been permanently removed.
There should be method in busting and
1t should be closely followed First of all
the carpet should be brushed A thorough
sweeping may not be necessary. but in most
living rooms there is daily need OF carpet
sweeper or dust pan and brush, often Of all
three. The carpet sweeper is admirable for
taking up the dirt in the middle Of the room,
but it Is practically useless in corners Every
housekeeper should have one Of the dust pans
that can be held in place by the foot. The
gain IN comfort is immeasurable to the wo-
man who has been accustomed 10 bend her
self double when she wished to brush up the
fluff that she had gathered together with Der
broom.
receive attention, the cornices, curtain poles
ttc. A Turks head brush is invaluable here
and is easily Improvised by tving a cloth or
towel around feather buster and attaching
this 10 the end Of pole long enough 10 en-
able one to touch the ceiling with he brush.
For the other parts OF the room "A cloth
must be used. Old silk handkerchiefs make
excellent busters, hut even they are not su-
perior TO those Of cheese cloth. These should
not be too large. A buster yard long bv
half yard wide is big enough for all or
binary purposes. Cheese cloth is so cheap
that there is no reason why every family
should not be provided with a generous sup
ply of busters
They must be henmed, of course, and NAV
be prettily finished by "a feather stitching Of
bright marking cotton. Such busters will 90
into all the hooks and corners, gathering up
the dust and retaining it. They should be
shaken after using and washed frequently.
II is "a tedious business TO dust the modern
parlor. Filled with bric-a-brac, adorned
with hanginGs over doors, windows and man
ties, ornaInented with bits Of drapery flung
over easels and picture frames 1t presents u
discouraging aspect to the busy housewife
One must pay for having pretty and artistic
surroundings, but, as long as the dust gather
ing agencies are kept out of sleeping rooms,
little harm is done. Everything should be
NOV ed in busting. There should be no dusty
rims left around ornaments to show how the
cloth SKINNED around them without touching
them Such careessness must be watched
for in the housemaid, whose study oft, is 10
slight sldllfully instead OF to perform her
task thoroughly.
For busting tufted furniture. nothing Is
better than an ordinary house painting brush
The bristles go into every crevice and fold of
the covering and fray the material less than
do the straws of a whisk broom.