The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-13
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WHEN THE WIFE Is SICK OR
AWAY, YOU'LL BIZ GLAD YOU
READ SLEETH'S TIPS TO
TIMID MEN FOLKS.

EDITORS NOTE-Tomorrow
-Bleeth will tell Times masculine
readers that washing clothes Is
really a snap!
BY DANA SLEETH.
There are mighty few male men
who regard homework with great
Joy.
There are not as many as there
should be who know enough to
help when an emergency comes.
Now homework isn't so bad, IL
you can do it In your own way,
and know enough to do 1t right.
The great big secret about
everything, from washing dishes
to carpets, Is to let things soak in
suds as long as you can before you
wash up.
Take dish washing; it's easy.
Put your dishes in big pan, or
the sink. Sprinkle washing pow
der over them, and cover them
with hot water; when you get
ready to wash them they will
come up sudsy and clean as fast
as you can handle them. Rinse
and dry them. Put pots and pans
to soak as soon as you empty
them. Then a chain dish rag, and
some more soap does the rest.
Clean the bottom of sooty pots and
pans with newspaper before you
wash them.
Sweeping is merely muscular
energy, only don't put on too much
muscle or you'll raise more dust
10 %
anti-dust compounds that save a
lot of work and dust, if they are
sprinkled lightly over the carpet
or floor before you begin. Don't
ever slip your sweepi2gs under the
bed, or sofa, or behind the range.
Burn them or dump out doors; it's
no disgrace for the neighbors to
see you with broom.
Wash your windows with hot
water that has few spoonfuls of
ammonia in it; dry with a rag,
and polish with dry newspaper.
Coal oil will clean sinks, wash
basins, bath tubs and enamel stuff
generally, and do 1t quick.
Scrubbing doesn't come in the
emergency class, but sometimes it
is as good as tonic for sick
woman to know her kitchen floor
is shiny. Sprinkle washing pow
der over the floor, take a broom
and hot water and scrub the mess.
Then mop up with clean water and
don't track it until dry. If you
have linoleum on the kitchen floor
1t is a snap; mop does 1t in ten
minutes.
Flirting the dust into the air
gets you nowhere; use dust rag
of the dustless sort that will pol
ish as well as clean.
If you have the job of making
beds take off all the covers and
turn the mattress over for luck.
end for end, once a week. Start
with the lower sheet and build up
your bed to the coverlet; tuck in
the covers under the mattress all
around, except you leave the COW
erlet out and hanging down to
conceal the mixup. Pound up the
pillows good, smooth them out,
put them squarely in place. And
SO then you want to crawl in
again you won't have to jump into
a huddled mess of bed clothes.
If you are patching, let every
dish in the house get dirty and
then wash them all up in one fell
swoop; but otherwise wash them
every chance you get. The wife,
If she is sick, will feel lot more
comfy.
Get in the habit of picking up
things on the floor. Empty the
wastebasket before it overflows.
Put the dishes in their right place.
And DON'T strew clothes and
shoes and cravats and paper bags
from the front porch to the celler-
way.
The average man in the average
small family can do the house
work that needs to be done in an
hour or two. You can do a lot
of it before you leave in the morn
ing; you can do the rest when you
get back at night. Maybe you won't
feel like it, but we're talking now