Milford chronicle., 1912-03-15
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Mrs. Ella Call Gives The Grangers Some
Good Advice as to the Annual House
Cleaning Period.

This is the month when housewives
begin their spring housecleauing, which
must be the most thorough one of the
year Carpets are taken up, beds must
be carefully looked after, and if there is
to be any new paper placed upon the
walls, the old must come off. Another
trouble to be eXper euced is that of find
ing a paper hanger, for at this season YOU
will find every other housewife busy
cleaning house, and that Mr.. Paper
Hanger has been engaged. 1 remember
that had a room all ready for the paper
hanger to come. He kept putting me
off as long as he could, then, when I
told him that 1 could not wait any lon
ger, he was inCOnsiderate of my feelings
and died before he papered my room.
House cleaning is carried too far with
some. They use up all of their strength
and patience, and also much Of their
husband S. l often wonder why a man
hates to see house cleaning time come.
If you should ask him how his wife is,
he would probably reply ooh, she is
house cleaning; got the house all tore
up. I can't find a thing or get a de-
cent meal. 1 certainly shall be glad
when it is done, for l can't see that it
looks any better than it did before -
Now, isn't that encouraging to the poor
woman who has worked and scrubbed to
make il nice and clean, more comforta- |
BILE and home-like? There are a good |
many things on the market to-day that |
help to Tighten the hard work of house /
cleaning Carpets that are i'll rooms oc-
cupied and used every day, should come
up at least once year. Rooms not i'll
use, such as parlOrs and guest rooms,
shonld be taken up at least every two
years, but they should be carefully
watched for moths.
Hardwood floors and mating covered
floors relieve the housewife; the house
can be kept much cleaner the entire year,
and the house cleaning period becomes
one of comfort and ease compared with
the house cleaning days of our mothers
and grandmothers. House cleaning with
hard wood floors and mating is a simple
matter; but busting walls, washing paints,
and oiling wood is hard work The
house keeper who works Systematically
puts every box, every shelf, every drawer
and trunk in order, before she disturbs
any other room. The country is full of E,
house cleaners, some good, others bad }
but all houses must have some sort of a =
keeper Most of the houses, however, .
are well kept In other words, the fam !
lily are well clothed and fed, and are not :
allowed to suffer unreasonably from the +
cold because of the lack of attention by I
the housewife. Such woman observes :.
the laws of health as to keeping clean /;
and having plenty of fresh air.
We all know the model housekeeper
She lives next door to some of us; and Z
many of us might wish her further away :
for good reasons of our own. Her house
and her ways are a continual discourage e.
ment to us her very door knobs reproach
Us by their sparkle; her chairs are never
luddled together in the middle of the
room; a microscope could not find a
grain of dust in the joints or carvings of
ler furniture; she dusts her rooms with
1er own hands using, she tells you, four II
Utensils for the purpose, for no consci- L
sntious housecleaner can dust properly Il
With less First, she uses a wicker pad
lie that beats out the dust without injury A
o plush, silks. or upholstery; second, a '.
pointed brush for cleaning the crevises q
md corners; third fluffy brush of fea- -
hers, with which the dust is dislodged; 81
ourth, soft cheese cloth duster for
,iping which is washed every morning y
nd generally ironed She has man m
Ter of telling you of these works of 1
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ing needle to your soul, when she tells u, Y
on that every picture in the house is - -
iped off every day with a cloth except l'
uuday, and once week is taken down T..
nd thoroughly busted She could not ii'
sconcile herself if the brass, plate, and -,
liver was not polished at least twice a w NJ
eek. Every dish cloth must have its -
special place, and must always be in its y
lace, so that no matter what time she - =,
lould want it, she would be able to lay T.,