Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-16
HousE-cLEANlne TACTICS.


Hints for Meeting the Annual Trial with
Comparative Ease.
According to long-estanlished ira
dition, housekeeping is imperfectly
done if comfort is permitted foot
hold In the house during the period
Of cleaning. The tradition is utterly
and absurdly wrong. The new" home
maker-she was evolved from a coll
lege girl-has proved it so. She has
discovered that the spring rites to the
goddess of cleanliness may be offered
with much system and little upheavaL
How she manages will be told in a short
series of articles, of which this is the
first
The wise housekeeper cleans from the
top toward the bottom. If the lower
rooms are cleaned first, they will be
more or less soiled later with the dust
from the upper regions, which has an
unpleasant habit of sitting through
closed DOORS The garnet is the first
part of the house which should receive
attention.
According to the same principle, cell
ings and walls should be the first part
of each room to be renovated 1t re-
quires only little common sense to
see that the kalsomining of a ceiling
after carpets have been laid or floors
polished is apt to be disastrous to the
carpets or floors.
Those parts of the house which are
used as storerooms. such as attics and
cellars. require particular attention.
They need more soap and water, more
quick lime and more busting than the
rest of the house to counteract the eff
feet of lack OF air and sunlight through
out the year. When the garnet is to
be cleaned, therefore, the hygienic
hon 70
thing from the room. Garments should
be shaken vigorously in the air and
hung out in the sunlight. Chests should
be carried into the yard and busted out
with cloth dampened in mild soiu-
ton of carbolic acid. They should then
be exposed to the sunlight until they
are perfectly dry As much as possible
of the clothing should be disposed OF.
and that which remains should be
wrapped in paper and returned to the
chests. The lid of each chest should
have pasted or tackled inside list of
its contents.
While the contents of the garnet are
being freshened in the back yard or on
the roof. the storeroom itself should be
thoroughly cleaned If it is plastered,
a coat of whitewash will do wonders
toward clearing the atmosphere. If it
is merely lathed, The lathes should be
swept and busted with a cloth wrung
out in a solution of carbolic acid. The
floor should be treated in the same way.
Then when the room is dry its con-
tents should be returned to it and placed
as neatly as possible in q well-regulated
attic.
The bedrooms, which should be taken
in order. and not ali at once, should be
examined for useless or decrepit furni-
ture. The former should be disposed of
in whatever way the thrift of the owner
may decide. The disabled furniture
should be sent to a repairer's.
If carpets are used in the bedrooms
which is something hygienists forbid
they should be taken up, and not
cleaned on the floor. They may be sent
to the renovating establishment or re-
stored to their original state Mt home.
A thorough shaking and beating pre-
pares them for the removal of stains
Grease spots may be removed by chloro-
form An old-fashioned but effective
method of cleaning entire carpet
which has grown dingy is to spread
it the floor, sprinkle it with pared
and grated raw potatoes and rub these
over it with a stiff new broom. When
the potatoes are removed, the carpet
should be allowed to dry thoroughly
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