Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23

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cap and carrying broom and dustpan will
exist in pictures only.
No longer is 1t necessary to sprinkle
down the floors before sweeping so that a
larger percentage OF the dust can be kept
in the dirt heap and not go flying about
the house to settle on the furniture, pict-
ures and woodwork. Nor do the male MEM
bers of the family fear to return home in
the evening lest they have to take the
rugs out and beat them. The sweeping
and busting can now be done by electricity,
eliminating most of the work, nearly all
the dust and a large amount of the trouble.
II would make almost any housewife
angry to tell her the house wasn't clean.
She would be indignant-might even
threaten you with her broom-which is said
to be such a handy weapon for domestic
defense as we'll as ~offense. And yet 1t has
been fully demonstrated that no woman
can clean a house with mop. broom and
dustcloth half as well as electricity can
do it. For the electric cleaner sweeps and
dusts with the aid of a vacuum, produced
by a small motor-driven centrifugal fan,
which sucks up every particle of dirt and
dust. Take the room that has been poll
ished until it fairly ~glistens and go over
II with the vacuum cleaner and you will
get twice as much dirt as the housewife
did. Out OF the cracks, c~revices and cor
ners she missed, the electric house cleaner
will suck up whole handfuls of dirt. The
surface Of the carpets, rugs and draperies
look clean, but the vacuum cleaner will
suck the dust and dirt from beneath the
rugs, cleaning the very fabric of the ma
terial. You can beat carpets and rugs all
day and still they will not be clean,
What the housewife really does is to
chase the dirt from the floor to the furni-
ture and back again. Clean, to the house
wife, means that there is not dust and dirt
enough left after she gets through to alter
her standard Of what she ~designates as
clean" The most destructive element in
the home is the continual wear and tear
of trying 10 keep things clean.
The electric house cleaner operates on the
centrifugal power exhaust principle. 1t ere
ates a very strong suction or draw" The
machine is compact and can be easily re-
moved from room to room or from floor
to floor. A small but powerful General
Electric motor, drives the centrifugal fan
which supplies the vacuum. This motor
can be attached to the electric lighting
socket, in place Of a lamp, by a long flext-
BILE cord. The metal parts of the device
are entirely of aluminium. which makes it
light and portable.
Al the bottom and front of the machine
is a rotary brush which revolves rapidly,
driven by belt from the motor. As the
machine is moved over the surface to be
cleaned the brush loosens all the clinging
dirt and a strong current of air working
up around this brush sucks up all the
dirt and dust that is in or under the car
pet. depositing all accumulation in the
collector. In addition TO this method there
are hose connections, 50 that every nook
and Granny can be cleaned. This hose Is
equipped with a tool which sucks up the
dust and dirt from rugs, curtains, mould
ing and everything about the house. The
dirt sucked up in this way is deposited in
the accumulation, which is easily detacha-
BILE.
The main point about sweeping with
electric power with the vacuum cleaner is
that there is no flying dust.
The electric cleaner reaches every crack,
corner and crevice of the room; the cracks
in the walls, the ceilings and mouldings
and all that dust which shows when you
draw your fingers across the wallpaper OF
woodwork. 1t removes the dust from pic
ture frames. statuary, brie-a-brac; II
cleans carpets, upholstery, curtains. tapes
tries. shades and blinds. without remov-
ing them from their fixings. II cleans and
renovates bedding, comforters, blankets,
mattresses and pillows; the cracks and
c~Tevices in wooden OF iron beds and even
reaches and cleans such inaccessible place