The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-09-13
HYGIENIc HOUSE CLEANING.
II should All he Done with Damn
Mop aud Soft Cloths 20 Avoid
the Dust.

According 10 the most advanced hy,
gienic theories alarming diseases art
literally thrown at the unsuspectinp
heads of every individual member OF
family whose domesticity is dis
turbed by a pronounced tendency for
sweeping. And this because the erst-
while innocent but now condemned
broom stirs up dust and fills the at
mosphere with matter to which, In all
probability, germs are clinging. To
scatter these germs broadcast over
furniture Is bad enough, but more dan
gerous is it to distribute them over
pictures and walls, where they secrete
themselves with malicious intent.
This is not to achieve that cleanliness
which Is next to godliness, but rather
to spread evil in the home
And let not the housewife fondly
imagine because she vigorously applies
her broom on the carpet that she is
getting out the dirt, even II she has
at one end of the room the accumu-
lated dirt-enough, perhaps, to fill her
dust pan. This proof of the pudding
is no proof at all though she has al
ways at the end of her labor been
wont to regard the pile with tremen-
dous satisfaction. That was because
she was merely an energetic house
wife and not scientist and did not
know that while she was welding her
broom she was doing two reprehensi-
BILE things-one, rubbing down through
the carpet with every stroke twice as
much dirt as was visible on the sur
face, and the other, waiting upward
in air currents germ-tainted foccu-
lent dust.
The only proper way to clean car
pet is to have 1t taken up once week
and beaten out OF doors. But this
would increase the labors of house
cleaning, and dismay even that ener-
getic type of housewife who delights
in perpetual cleaning, to the terror
and discomfort OF the masculine sex.
AS an expedient, therefore, and a
substitute for the broom, the carpet
sweeper is permitted, according to hy-
yienic law. This modern improvement
9 scorned by many housewives, but it
low behooves them to learn it's worth.
dubbed gently over the carpet il raises
10 germ-tainted, focculent dust, but
ticks up and throws into receiving
hamber all the dirt, thereby achiev-
ng general cleanliness beyond the
ower of the broom, says a domestic
xchange.
Along with the broom Is condemned
he "despicable feather duster" which
lany women swish over walls and fur
iture under the mistaken impression
nat they are removing dust. Hun S
reds of housewives are loyal to the |
,ather duster, when it seems as il to !
lie simplest mind the fact would be
pparent that the feather duster :
erely scatters the dust.
To be strictly hygienic and up to
lite, all the cleaning of a house
Iould be done with damp mop and
1T cloths. Carpets should be BAN
he'd along with the broom and feath-
duster, and on the oil-fnished floors
ould be rugs that can be easily re-
owed and beaten out Of doors. Rooms
eaned with mop are never filed
th clouds of dust settling down
ain in hooks and corners, and the
op does its work on the floor thor
ghly. The furniture Of the room
ould then be carefully wiped with
It cloths, which take up every yes
'e Of dust blown in from the outside,