The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-25
ONE METHOD
OF RESTING
Delights of Small Doses of
Cleansing tbs House.
Sunshine illumination of Corners.
With Turpentine and Xarnish ~,
Nerve SoOtiier.

1T may seem an odd sort of a way to
| pieces. but that is my way of
resting in the Spring of the year.
l am heartily tired of things by this
time and am ready to make a complete
change from garnet to cellar. When it is
all over. the changing about. 1 mean.
feel like another creature"
| listened to my friend with attention,
writes Dorothy Maddox. for she
| is woman who has ideas that
count for a good deal in my opinion.
When she came TO "A stop, / said. 'Do go
on, that's a dear, and tell me all about
it."
Il never work myself to death the
first day, but take my change about in
homeopathic doses. If / went at the
tearing-to-pieces process as some women
do, l should get mighty little good from
the change.
My! What long, delicious breath l
take when ] see the last dirty lace cur
tain and the last heavy drape is disposed
of. There they have hung week after
week. getting dingier and dingier. and /,
''fAN an Atit itSA VI the uOuSthGtD-fS,
really thought when they were first put
up that l should never on earth tire
of them
81 suppose next Fali-but there I am
not going 10 think of next Fall When
the curtains and draperies are out OF my
way the house seems like another place
l feel as If | had a chance for more oxy-
gen, less danger Of breathing in dust and
aust every time | open my mouth.
Then / set aside one whole day for
carunS of my Winter trumpery into the
garnet. things, you know, that we all of
US think we must keep standing about
during cold weather. Yes. / bundle I'D
the dust-catchers and take solid delight
IN tuckinS them into the blacklist corner
| can find.
Dust them? Why. II I have picked
UP a certain vase and jar and bowl ana
picture once since Autumn to dust il |
have picked the foolish bit up one hun
dred times and a hundred more on to
this.
RON my soul | don't wonder we feel
utterly done for and want to be made
over in the Spring Of the year. II |
could | would scamper off for nv
chahge. but | cannot. so / lust have 10
contrive to find 1t inside my four walls
me stuhy rockers and touches are coy
cred with linen and II any pieces of Will
low furniture are soiled I nut them in
the bathtub and scrub them until they
look as good as new
one OF my best schemes for a change
Is giving the sofa pillows about Tho
house new slips. The chintzes or denim
OF Whatever l use-it is something chean
ana washable. YOU may depend-are sucf
rests for my eyes. Even the rug of mat
ting that ! put down in the bath-room
IN place of a heavy one is a regular
comfort every time ! look at IT,
me pictures that have insisted for
months on being admired at lust such
an angle are carried off for the fun Of
seeing nice bare walls. | run the Win
ter stools and the table covers out of
SlEht. lhen / set 10 work contrivlng to
nave as many green things about the
mouse as can. / put a pot of flowers
IN the corners. which having been sveut
clean of art rubbish. give Il change too
lovely for anything.
30 much light. so much sunshine 50
many spots of delicate green. II is re-
IFtSiihE' Alter everything is fixed ac-
corning 10 my ideas of real change 7
SIT down and hug myself with satisfac-
u"h. 1t Is almost as nice as going away
For few days / feel as if / had es
capped somehow from all my old weary
ing environments
And the very last thing T do is 70
have all the places that can be rubbed
with oil and tuTpeHtine This polish
gives such clean smell about the
house. | DO a little vanishing for the
same reason. The yarnish suggests
newneSs and whoiesomeness and clean
mess. | don't know Of a better plan if
one wants to experience a sense of com
plete renovation
My eyes rest my heart is comforted
my nerves are soothed. | pity all the
women who are still surrounded nv
their winter traps. The feeling of ola
ton. of superiority lasts me for an as
long time considering how
quickly one gets used to things