Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-04-18
KEEPING THE HOUoL
-sm,s THE KEYNOTE OF Sue
CESS.
r,srity in Putting Things to Rights
Ear Better Than Annual opheav-
:, Formerly Known as House
Cleaning.


,to most delightful, easiest work In
tbe world if you know how TO 40 It
nd throw over tradition. Iheres
s,ob q lot in that! For instance, time
Eos when every good housekeeper
md her house upside down and her
lily into the streets, very nearly,
18th a snring housekeeping. | SUP
aso there are still old-fashioned
ncot,, housekeepers who maintain It's
40 onlv way. Every curtain and car
not and smallest drapery was beaten
and cleaned within an lnch OF lts me-
ond every drawer and CUPBOARD was
made to give up it's secrets. Ana In
tbe middle of it all sat disconsolate
family. The latter-day housekeeper
never has one of these cleanlngs, Tor
the whole house is kept in perfectly
GOOD condition without this annual
awful upheaval, and she even does
without a weekly upheaval, for, says
the modern woman, what is sweep
ing but a stirring up OF dust from
carpet or rugs to settle on furniture!
Every day each hardwood floor is care
fully gone over with good brush,
which has a 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
I'D every particle Of dust, leaving the
floor shining and bright and not hor-
ridly 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 or
doors for a good beating. 1t certainly
is energy savingi / fancy in the coun-
try women are still shaving at their
housework in way that 1T 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
example, be made into kindling wood
Traditions are all very we'll, but we've
outgrown most of them for utilitariar
purposes.
Tablecloths should be irOned on
both sides. If they are of good quality
are well mOistened, and then 1rone(
until dry, they will have quite enough
stiffness and gloss. If they are worl
so thin that they become limp by once
using, take what starch is left afte
the other clothes have been starched
and dilute it with water enough t.
rinse the tablecloth. Dry, sprinkl
and iron as usual. The thinned starc
is Just enough to give some body t
the soft old linen
An anxious inquirer wants to knON
what to do to brass beds that hav
lost their luster and grown very din
unfortunately, it's too late to do an!
thing now, I'm afraid, except to tax
OH the trimmings that will unscre'
and replace them with new ones, c
else send it away to be entirely r.
FURNISHED. In the days of splendi
solid brass it could be cleaned with a
KINDS OF things, such as salt and vim
gar which 1 fancy is what this co
respondent used, but most of the bra:
oeus one buys nowadays are TIL
veneer or some other metal, and tt
only way one dares treat them is vii
daily rubbing with a flannel or o
DIX cloth. This procedure will, ho'
eVer, keep the brass in good conditiC
ior several years.
"A laundry bag, big and roomy,
turkey red, with a panel on one sii
VI ecru taffeta cloth with great PHI
"nu red roses and wreaths cut from
suintz' makes an awfully nice prese
'or traveler.-Boston Herald.