The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-02-26
HOME SHOULD -
Be kept CLEAN
Best Thing That Gould Happen
the Average One Is to Lose
Its Worthless Contents.
II is MUCH LIKE PERSON
Apt to Become Constipated and Should
Be Treated on the Same Rational
Principle That We Treat
Ourselves.

Medical Talk: The best thing that
could happen to the average home Is
to get rid Of about half the stuff it con-
tains. A. home. like a person, is apt
to become constipated. People keep
buying new stuff, bringing it into the
house, showing the old stuff aside, al
lowing corners n cupboards, attic
and basement, to become congested
with a lot Of old clutter thai is of no
use to any one, but forms a hiding
place for Vermin and a breeding place
Tor all sorts of germs.
Constipated-that is what is the mat
ter with such homes. What they need
Of a burglar could enter such a house,
back up a tWo-horse wagon in front,
and haul off a few wagon loads Of this
useless stuff. the people in the house
would not be the losers, but the gain
erS.
Easy to Accumulate.
1t is very easy to buy something and
bring 1T home, but it is not quite so
Easy to get rid Of it afterwards. So the
stuff keeps accommodating. Boxes and
half empty bottles, chests stuffed full
Of half worn clothing, old rag shelves
piled up with miscellaneous matter
hardly fit for use II yet too good to
throw away. closets hung full Of his
INC that.
And so it is from basement to attic,
wads Of worthless rubbish, piles Of pal
try belongings, that attract dirt, that
hold dirt, that vegetate dirt, and finally
degenerate n rumble away into the
~dirtiest kind Of dirt.
What such homes need is a thorough
physic, a drastic cathartic.. If some
gang of pillagers or horde of maraud-
Frs would only come and pull out,
kick loose, tear down, all his super
! H11l1S fro oh thnp oil ,,irLt 1> ,rA1l f~,
4 time.
But no such relief will come. We
must look in some other direction for
help.
Constipated homes ought to be treat
ed on the sane rational principles hat
we recommend for a constipated per-
son. A quick purgative only palliates
main, the constipation will return.
What is the use of giving physic to a
man who has sluggish bowels? If he
continues right along to eat too much
Or to eat improper food, and continues
the other habits hat have provoked
the constipation, his disease is sure to
return. OF course, one is tempted al
ways to think of physic, just as one is
tempted to go into a cluttered-up home
and kick about two-thirds of the old
Junk out into the street, but this, like
physic, will not cure the complaint.
Wife Should Move First.
The habits of .the home should guard
against household constipation. The
first move should be made by the wife,
to whom the following advice is sub
mitted:
Call the junk nan to your home to-
morrow. Persuade you husband to
stay at home with you all day. Go over
the house from top to bottom. Take
away all supert1uous stuff-chairs,
benches, boxes, bottles, Papers, old
magazines, old clothing, worthless
books, everything that is not needed.
Trim it down close. The more you
get rid Of the better you will be off.
Make clean every vacant place that is
left by the absence of these things. Put
On a coat Of paint or varnish or white
wash. Something or other to lake the
place Of the confusion.