The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-29
SPRING HoUsEcLEANiNo.
Some Practices In the Work Which Should
BE Condemned.

Some Practices In the Work Which should
| BE Condemned.
by popular custom housecleaninr is
postponed in the spring till after the
winter fires are put out On most sea.
sons this is too late. Every house
| after the long shut-in .pericd of winter
needs thorough recognizing and
special cleaning. This should be done
before warm days, and ought to be
commenced as early as the middle of
April, or as soon as the windows can
be kept freely open while the rooms
are being cleaned. Fires ought to be
continued some time after housecleau-
ing to thoroughly dry out the house.
even if the weather is SO warm that
windows must be kept open for COM
fort. 1t is seldom safe to do away with
winter fires before the middle of Nav in
this locality. unless the living
rooms of the family are provided
with fireplaces for use during the
spring and fall months. The common
practice of cleaning house, scrubbing
paint and floors, hastily replacing car
pets without fires to dry out the house,
is to be strongly condemned It is an
invitation to miasmic colds and all the
dlscomforts that come in their train.
The sensible housekeeper begins by
cleansing her garnet and then looks
over the cellar, and sees that both the
cellar and all buildings near the house
are thoroughly cleansed and white
washed before the general cleaning of
the living apartments of the house.
All closets and stowaway places are
next attacked, and every place where
moth or buffalo bug may Turk must be
looked over. The bedsteads must be
taken apart and busted and filed
with Persian insect powder, mere
ly as precautionary measure.
This work should be done as |
early as possibles in April, as during |
this month allinsect life revives, and is |
Matched out for the season. If precau- /
lions are taken to rid the house of |
pests of this kind thus early in the sea-
son, there will be little trouble after
ward. A month later the buffalo bug
has gone into papa state, and has ac-
all the mischief he is like
y to do for the season. and other in
'ects have become abundant enough to
'ffer formidable resistance to ordi-
lary methods of determination.
1t this preliminary cleaning is done
thoroughly and other rooms of the
rouse are cleaned, one by one, as it is
convenient, housekeeping need not be
he affiiction it so often is. 1t is true.
where there is large amount of whit
ng and painting, it is often necessary
o tear up several rooms at once
n order to have the work done at a
heaper price by the job, but. except
where this is the case, it is far better
do one, or at most two rooms, at
nee, and settle these completely be-
ore going further. 1t is true that car
et-cleaners like to have large amount
I work at once, but they do their
FORK by the yard, so it is just as cheap
have the carpets cleaned by the
pom instead OF by the house, as so ,
ften done. The first method can be
ut in force without any break in the
sgular family life, and those who are
OF Immediately interested in the work
Ill hardly realize what has been ac- ]
except by the result. The ,
her method interferes more or less /,
It'll the comfort of every member of ,
onsehold, and has brought the season
house-eleaning under the Just baa
man,-N !. Tribune.