The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-08
KEEPING THE HOUSE
SYSTEM is THE KEYNOTE OF sue.
CESS.
Regularity in Putting Things to Rights
Far Better Than Annual Upheav'
al Formerly Known as House
Cleaning

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One woman says that housekeeping
\ IN the most delightful, easiest work ~
K the world II you know how 10 do Urn
and throw over tradition, There
such lot in that. For Instance tune
was when every good housekeeper
turned her house upside down ana ner
family into the streets very nearly,
with a spring house.cleaning sup
pose there are still od-fashloned
esay" lousekeepers who maintain II
tbs only way Every curtain and car
pet and smallest drapery was beaten
anc cleaned within an inch OF It's life,
and every drawer and cupboard was
made TO give up its secrets. And in
tho middle of 1t all sat disconsolale
family. The latter-day housekeeper
neyer has one of these cleanlngs, for
the whole house is kept in perfectly
good condition without this ANIMAL
awful upheaval, and she even does
without & weekly upheayal. for SAYS
the modern woman, what Is a sweep
ing but stirring up OF dust from
carpet OF rugs to settle on furniture
Every day each hardwood floor Is care
fully gone over with good brush
which has hollow handle in which
is a receptacle for Oil which. by
means OF a spring In the handle, Is
forced out drop by drop. This takes
up every particle OF dust, leaving the
floor shining and bright and not hor-
rldly oily TO the smell, as is evident
when the floor has an oil treatment
occasionally, And then very often the
rugs and hangings are taken Out OF
doors for a good beating. 1t certainly
is energy saving | fancy In tic coun-
homework in a way that il has been
done for a century. Hardwood floors (
may not be possibilities in old country /
houses. but the carpets can be taken !
up and the floors painted and the /
rugs put down, to the infinite saving !
of time and work, and the firing |
brooms may, after this one woman S |
example. be made into kindling wood. |
Traditions are all very well, but We've /
outgrown most of them for utilitarian
purposes
TabIecloths should be ironed on
both sides. III they are Of good quality. /
are, well moistened and then ironed
until dry, they will have quite enough
stiffness and gloss. II they are worn
so thin that they become limp by once
using, take what starch is left after
the other clothes have been starched,
and dilute 1t with waters enough to
rinse the tablecloth Dry, sprinkle
and iron as usual. The thinned starch
is just enough to give some body 10
the soft old linen.
An anxious inquirer wants to know
what to do to brass beds that have
lost their luster and grown very dim.
Unfortunately, it's too late to do any
thing now. I'm afraid. except to take
of the trimmings that will unserew
ars replace them with new ones, or
else send it away to be entirely re-
In the days of splendid
solid brass 1t could be cleaned with all
kinds of things, such as salt and vine
gar, which | fancy is what this cor
used, but most Of the brass
beds one buys nowadays are a thin
veneer or some other metal, and the
only way one dares treat them is with
i daily rubbing with flannel or old
silk cloth. This procedure will how
ever, keep the brass in good condition
'or several years.
A laundry bag. big and roomy. OF
turkey red with panel on one side
If ecru taffeta cloth with great pink
and red roses and wreaths cut from a
,hintz. makes an awfully nice present
or a traveler.-Boston Herald. ]