Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-05-20
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Advice From writer Of Noted Home
Hsalth Notes, OF Chicago.


Health Notes, Of Chicago.
SPRING HoUsEcLEAN1NG: We are
passing through the annual round up
in many households and in some parts
of the country it is all over with and
peace is drawing near. It is true that
women Of the household still call the
men down II they walk In without thor
oughly cleaning their shoes or If q coat
or hat is carelessly left where it should
not be. It is also true that mother is
still nursing q lame back and aching
muscles. but she Is so glad to know
that 1t is over and everything clean
and in order that she Is comparatively
happy.
Now, let me tell you something about
housekeeping. There now, never mind,
know I am a man and not supposed to
look at such things from woman's view
point, but I am just egotistical enough
to say that know better than some Of
you, and I will also say what I know
about the matter learned from a most
excellent housekeeper who never found
1T necessary to do what most women
call "spring housekeeping" Why?
Well in the first place she found that
in most homes the process was followed
by colds, sore threats, child ailment
and great amount Of physical suffer-
ing on her own part as well as great
Inconvenience to the entire household.
How did she avoid it? BY simply keep
ing clean all the time. In the first
place she found that the greatest trial
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pets so she took up every carpet in the
house and made them into rugs. Then
she painted and vanished all the floors
and after that she got vacuum clean
er. A little work daily and thorough
use of the vacuum cleaner once a week
has from that time on kept her house
in just a perfect condition all the time
as it was formerly after spring house,
cleaning.
There are q few things about a home
that are more insanitary than a carpet
that has been down for several months.
good vacuum cleaner, however, used
weekly will make it more sanitary than
ordinary beating If done once month
and I have never known housekeeper
to take up carpets monthly.
No, I have no interest in the vacuum
business, am simply telling you of
something that saves work for woman
and makes homes more sanitary. An
ordinary sweeping with broom simply
raises the foul dust in great clouds and
it settles on everything in the room in
Guiding the woman who does the sweep
ing and she breathes into her lungs
enough foul germs to infect a. dozen
ease.
On the other hand the vacuum clean
er collects the dust and enables one to
take it out Of the room and dump it in
to receptacle filled with water so that
it will trouble us no more. A little
wiping Of the window and door caps
baseboards and picture frames and the
house is cleaned in a few hours. It is
true that the floors must be wiped up
and the kitchen scrubbed, but it is in
finitely better and greater economy to
hire this done at least once week
than to pay out many times the amount
Of the cost in doctor bills I know
many mothers who refuse to keep hired
help on account Of the expense, work
themselves down and then suffer in ad-
dition to paying doctor bill that is
greater than would have been the wag-
es Of a competent servant or cook.
There is no economy and nothing to
be gained by continuing to live in your
home without the modern conveniences
Suburban homes can be made and kept
modern and sanitary at much less ex-
pense than the city home. The time is
| coming when the owners Of the farms
| and country homes will be the owners
! and aristocrats Of this country. The
| telephone, the auto and the picture
| shows have changed and will still more
| change the social condition Of farm life
| and scientific housekeeping will i'm
prove the health Of all people when II
takes the place Of spring housekeeping