The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
How To Save Labor.

wife to the Tribune Farmer is
good enough for the Fulton
County News:
"Slr May l be allowed a little
space in your valuable paper for
few lines pertaining TO house
cleaning, not as to how it is TO be
done, but how to lessen the wol k
In that trying time? Spring is
here, and to us busy housewives
1t means more than soft winds,
flowers and birds. There are
the windows aud pictures to be
washed, the moving and rubbing
of furniture, the airing and
brushing and putting away OF
garments acd bedding and the
removal and shaking of heavy,
dusty carpets, and what, may |
ask, shall we do with the carpets ?
"Why," l hear some of you say,
"we will remove the tacks, and
after dinner the men will do all
the lifting and shaking for us
very willingly" Yes, they will,
because they know you cannot,
but how they would have liked to
spen1 that time in an easy chair
with book or paper, for our "men
folks" must be considered, too.
With the same lack of help on
the farm as indoors, they appre-
ciate the short noon rests. Now,
when it is almost impossible to
obtain help "ior love or money, I"
why not economic IN time and
strength aud do ava, with thi,
heavy work. A few years ago [
discarded all carpets from rooms
much used. The kitchen floor is
painted, which I prefer to hard
wood floor, as 1t does not show
grease and other spots so readily.
My dining room, which is living
room as well, has It's floor finish
ed in oak stain. 1t was applied
over an ordinary painted floor.
1t can be renewed as often as
every sp ing, as one likes. There
is positively no dust from such
floor, and where one has plants
in the room it is great advan'
tage. What might look like bare
ness to some can be relieved by
homemade rugs, and do not
think, you young housekeepers,
as my daughters used to think,
that they must be taken up and
shaken every day. That means
a great deal of hard work, which
we are trying to avoid. Just
brush them lightly when you
sweep, and some day, when The
north wind blows, pin them Sc
curely on the clothes line, and LEI
every bit of dust blow away. Yor
will find when you take then
down, they will look and feel al
: most like new; and just here le
me add that tight wire line at
: tached to strong painted posts j!
/. what every woman is entitled t.
I who has any washing done a
home. MAY none of you wait a
+. long for yours as | did for mine
e "And, speaking of rugs, let M
5 suggest, when making thea, tina
5 you save your different colors 10
5 different rugs, so they will cor
e respond with the predominatini
B. color of the room for which yo
intend them. In my own room
n which Is papered with buff, and
4. green and buff borde-, | hav
h rugs of buff and brown, with
q touch of green in the body of th
II rugs, and green the principe
color in the border. These, owe
an oak stained floor, look yer
,. pretty, indeed.
81 hope these suggestions wi
= help some Dne who, perhaps, ha
= not had my many years of expe
lence, and tighten, if ever so iittl
- some woman s work, and so ad
- to the comfort and happiness
- the whole household, for no w
= man tired out can do justice
- herself or her family"
l., A. b. WEBSTER.
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