The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-30
ALL FOR THE LADIES.
Practical Hints For Those Who Boss
Our Homes--They Are The Cause
of Most of Our Joys and
Sorrows, Too.
NOT MUCH OF A SAVING.

Sorrows, Too.
NOT MUCH OF A SAVING.
Old Bachelor-Now that you're mar
ried you don't have to send your gar
ments out any more to be mended, I
presume.
Married Friend-N-o, don't have to
send them out now. My wife always
has the house full of sewing women -
NeW York Weekly.
INFREQUENCY OF BADNESS IN WOMEN.
The small amount of badness among
women as compared with men has
given rise to many interesting specula-
tions, and if Miss e. F. Andrews, who
has recently written on the subject,
has added but little that is new TO what
has already been advanced in the way
of arguments and opinions, she has at
all events taken a practical method Of
ascertaining the relative amount Of
badness in the two sexes, in sending
out a large number of circulating
blanks to be filled in by the recipients.
From the returns received it is found
that Of 1876 males between the ages
Of ten and twenty, eight-tanths per
cent. showed signs Of badness, whereas,
of ], 374 females Of like age, only seven
hundredths per cent. gave symptoms
of it. In other words, the proportion
of badness was eighty in the case Of
males to seven in the case of females.
The conclusion reached by Miss An
drews is that while imam" is evidently
evolving into a bald headed animal,
woman" on the contrary, and per
haps, by a law of compensation, is des-
tined to develop in the other direction,
and produce her browning glory in
still greater abundance and beauty.
This is, Of course. taking it for granted
that the aesthetic instincts Of man as
regards the fair sex do not undergo a
radical change, and lead him to prefer
bald-headed women in the same way
that many women express a preference
for a bald headed man, because '.it
looks intellectual" Miss Andrews sur
misses that the day may not be very far
distant when, in the course of human
evolution, a man with hair on his head
will be rs great an anomaly as a
bearded woman, but as long as men
love beauty and are won by personal
charms, so long will women continue
to rejoice in those abundant tresses of
brown and gold that are one of the
chief ornaments Of their sex.-Courier
Journal.
SUMMING CLOTHES.
Summing clothes and carpets ought
to be as important a part of the twice
yearly cleaning as scrubbing and wash
ing,
The sun is the great refiner and puri-
fer of all things on the globe, the great
health commissioner of the world; and
if he were allowed to do his proper
work, he would Danish at least two
thirds of the disease and misery on
this p1.1lt. The free circulation Of
air dilutes and carries off what is 90
noxious and furnishes fresh supplies
for breathing, but air alone has not
the power of sunshine as a disinfectiag,
cleansing agent.
The direct rays Of the sun have a
strong chemical effect on the particles
of decaying matter. It's powerful
chemical action is seen in bleaching
stains from linen in a few hours which
sharp acids would fail to remove It
is a similar potency which, as we say,
''sweetens" clothes and bedding hung
out in the sun.
When house cleaning, all the clothes
hanging in closets and all carpets and
bedding should be carried out as soon
as the morning dampness is out Of the
air, about 8 o'clock, and be hung CT
spread in the full blaze Of the sun fol-
the day, moving them out of the shade
as it creeps over them. Hanging il
the shade won't answer till the sun has
done its part,
A keen sense of smell is the best
guide is this matter, for it will soon
tell by the sweet wholesome smell of a
pillow or carpet when the sun has done
it's work.
Pillows, blankets and beds should
hang in the sun all day Or for two days
if possible, on frames which allow the
air to circulate freely under them.
And they must be turned from time to
time so that every part on the surface
may get the sun. A two days airing
and summing in a warm spring sun is
the next thing to a steam cleaning, and
better in some ways.
Colored clothes should be turned in.
side out and hung an hour or two to
sun each side. and the rest of the day