The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-02
SCIENCE IN THE HOME.
Proper Ventilation and
Thorough busting Es-
Sentia1 to the Health
of Its Inmates.
DARKNESS AND DlMpN.SS W0Ek MI.CHIEF,
Practical Household Hints -
Recipes for Dainty
Dishes.

The thorough systematic h~ousekeeper
who goes about her nome with a cheerful
heart and willing hands. accomplishes fal
more in shorter time than her sister who
declares that she hates homework, could
even imagine. The cheerful one. day by
day does W hat is necessary. leaving moth
ing undcne which should be done, while
her discontented sister leaves things &c
take care of themselves. and often much
work is needed to atone for her careless
ness. The lack of proper ventilation and
airing of rooms may not at first appeal
to her; she may, in her lazy Indifferent
way open a window for a few minutes
here or there, pick up a duster amt clean
whatever seems especially to demand 1t.
and during this process she Will not
trouble about whittier this dust flies. Sne
only wishes that it does not show.
busting (aud / am beginning to think
a great many other forms of housework)
is a science. The removal OF lust is,
therefore, not only q performance OF
8;thetic necessity, but Of the greatest
sanitary Importance AS we'll. Its not GO
ing too far to say that there is Just as
much need OF classes in the hygienes OF
cleaning ant busting as there Is of cook
ing classes.
The simple displacement of dust isn't
busting, aud the whisking of the feather
buster is no more evidence of cleanliness
the possession of many books nowa-
DAYS is the evidence OF learning. A room
is busted only when the dust is AIKEN out
of the room, and That is done only when
it has been carried out of the room. This
is done by using a soft. slightly am
ened cloth to dust with, and by w!ping
the surface of each article slowly and
with care not to throw the particles of
dust up in the air, whence they will settle
again instantly somewhere else,
THE FEATHER BUSTER.
The utility of the feather duster except
for walls is to be doubted, and even for
walls a soft cloth is better. A thin silk
cloth or a piece of cheese cloth makes a
good buster. So does q soft, firm woollen
cloth; but linen and cotton flannel leave
her worn out silk stockings for dusting,
and still another makes loose mittens out
of old woollen which she puts on as dus-
tiers. A turkeys wing is admirable to
get the lust out of cninks and between
rails, and chamois gives a last polish bet
ter thai anything else. the best polish
in all the world to keep furniture from
dingy is the following:-Two
tablespoonfuls cotton seed oil; n table,
spoonful turpentine. Instead of cotton
seed oil. grout oil or any good vegetable
oil may be used. This should be well
rubbed into the wood, and then a last pol
ishing given with chamois. This is the
recipe Of a famous furniture dealer in
New YORK.
VENTILATION.
The Indifferent housekeeper above men
toned probably Is a prey to headaches.
She also is likely to dread fresh air. the
lack of which causes her headaches. She
or doesn't stop to consider that in
summer our dwellings ventilate them
selves with little care on our part; but in
winter we economize heat at the expense
of ventilation. Few houses are provided
with artificial ve%ntilators. W lille the drain
age is generally far from perfect. Even
houses supposed to be above suspicion In
this respect are often found to be danger
ously defective. The most important
part of a house is the cellar. It it is
damp aud unhealthy the house is also
likely to be so. A damp unhealthy cellar
means a house of that sort. There should
be no part of the cellar that cannot easily
be lighted and ventilated. Too much
stress cannot be held 70 these points.
When you have heat IN your house you
the air of the cellar. therefore it is neces-
sary to keep the air pure. Then your
rooms should be so arranged as to be east
ly ventilated and flooded with sunlight.
The furnace Is perhaps the most our
mon and perhaps also the cheapest method
of heating. But a furnace requires in
telligent care, it must be supplied with
the fresh air. with the mouth OF the air
shaft as far as possible from the garbage
barrel and cesspoll. Tn evaporating
process should be used in every case, and
the damper air is much more healthtul.
Steam heat is very convenient and not
very expensive, but there is seldom any
of supplying fresh air. The last
consideration in the building of a house is
but it is not only by nny
means the least. The old fashioned fire
place is one OF the best means of ventilat
ing homes, even though it is not needed
for heating. The transom should not be
lost sight of. Have 10 Clark damp corners
and no standing garbage. All garbage
should be burned at once. Not directly on
the fire, for this makes "a noxious smell.
but in a receptacle at the side of tn o
stove, where it is dried down to a sweet
harmless charcoal. without smell and
as fuel.