The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-16
WOMEN CANNOT SWEEP.
They Have Not Learned the
Science Yet, Says a
Bold Man.
THEY GATHER, THEN SETTER lust
How TO Do 1t ThoroughlY-The Ell
quette of Cards-Advice
About the Eyes.

tours into woman's sacred realm. the
home, has as serted that not one woman
in q hundred knows how to sweep. Then
he grows a trile timid and acknowledges
that of course he does not expect them to
agree with him.
1t does seem hard that after woman has
been sweeping the world since the days
of the "Woman who swept the cobwebs
from the sky" she should now be told
that she has labored more or less In vain
She has not perfected herself in this pure.
1y feminine employment. Now, from OBJ
servation, the writer is strongly inclined
to agree with Cor. Stockn1an when ne
sa ys:-"When a woInan sweeps she holds
The broom at an angle that brings one
corner of the brush on the floor and then
pus hes it forward with all her might. CIV
ing it a kind of u flirt at the end of the
stroke that throws the dust and dirt into
the air. The heavier particles of dirt
she finally captures in n corner
Of the loom and gets most of 1t into
the dustpan, but the hghter-aud main
p~ortion-fiies up into the air and soon
settles upon the floor, furniture and
walls. Then madnm 'dusts' the room
and knocks a good deal of the dust off it's
resting places and it returns to its old
quarters on the floor.
II TELLTALE BROOM,
snow any man who has watched the
process will say that l have told the plain
truth. Look at IA broom after it has been
~woman-used for a few weeksl One cor
ner turned up and sticking out like a
sleigh uDner, the whole brush fopslded,
ruined. The right way to sweep is TO
hold the broom with it's brush square on
the floor aud a little behind the body Of
,ne sweeper. Bring it forward with Il
regular. steady movement. and stop its
forward motion before the ends of the
brush catch in the carpet and act like 30
many springs to throw dirt in the
air. Persuade the dirt to advance,
and don't try to scare it. Act as If
you were petting a sick baby and not
as if you were pitching hay. Turn the
broom over occasionally so as to wear 1t
evenly, and your broom, furniture and
carpets will last longer, and SO will you,
for the labor won't be half SO great and
the satisfaction will be three times as
great. When it comes to dusting-for
even with proper sweeping some dust will
arise-don't use a feather buster, An old
turkey tail or some such Accumulation,
but take n cloth and wipe up the dust,
not firt it off on the floor again. Try u
scientific sweep once, and you will not go
back to the old way again"
UNHEALTHY, TO SAY II LEAST.
One morning last winter l happened to
enter the dining room of n friend home
just as the girl was sweeping it. 1t was a
cold day. The window was raised about
two inches from below. The table was
laid for breakfast but partially covered
10y a large napkin. There was consider
able dust in the room, but that was all
left more or less to settle on the furniture.
A cursory busting with a feather duster
was all the room received until The Satur-
day cleaning, which the mistress herself
superintendent. CHANGING into the kitchen
adjoining, l noticed some uncovered but
ter, likewise some open, partially full
milk bottles; these all received a gener-
Gus supply of the dust flying through the
open door, and were served up with the
mornings meal. There seems to be very
little hope in telling girls that this pro-
| cess is wrong; that health depends on
care in these matters. But If l had a
hobby 1t would be this:-I would lave
planned a large hotel or boarding house
on the sanitary and scientific methods.
This / would have run somewhat OH the
plan followed in the large hospitals
which train nurses and give them salts
factory recommendations. There would
be several departments, each superinteDd-
ed by a graduate; cooks would be taught
the chemistry of foods and all things per-
tanning TO their work from a stand
| point of health and easy digestion.
Chambermalds would be taught how
to do their work thoroughly; how to mir
rooms and clean them, Mattresses would
De VerSed IN their aft DeIofc |grauuation,
and | will voueh that those graduates
would be called for all over the country.
A small sum-, as at present.. would be
asked for recommending the girls, and i
am sure the agency would be gladly well
coined by busy housewives, who nova
DAYS have to "begin all over again" every
few months. The standard of work
| among girls In service would be raised, as
has been the standard of a professional
| capable nurse, and perhaps the converse
ton between housekeepers would of ne
cessity be raised. If they spoke oe their
help at all, they would do so in terms of
praise. A Utopian idea, you sayf Per-
haps. But necessity is the mother of in
vention, and necessity now demands in
telligenJ workers in the home.
Assu,nfno tho HnshanIsa M mo