Evening journal., 1914-05-26
DAYS
ARE At HAND AGAIN
Clever Woman Is Pacifying
Her Husband For
Dreaded Ordeal
NOT DIFFICULT
IF YOU KNOW HOW

Oi course, there are lots Of women
who have their housecleaning all over
with by now, but there are lots and
lots more who haven't gone farther than
perhaps to take down the lace curtains ,
merely as a matter Of self.dcfense. For /
there are few women who have the |
moral courage to plunge into the spring |
upheaval OF the household before it be.
comes an absolute necessity.
And 80 you are being told Of the |
housecleaning of just about the smart
est little woman in Wilmington, who
worked the miracle of having her house
cleaned from garret to cellar before her
lord and master could so much as bat
an eyelash toward discovering that the
houseclcaming was going ON. And you
must acknowledge that that was feat
indeed, for few are the men who can.
not scent the atmosphere of spring
housekeeping from afar. who do not be-
gin at least two days beforehand to
chafe and demand to know why the
/ dickens" the house must be cleaned any
way when there isn't a spcck of dust 20
be seen with two horsepower micro
scope.
The beginning OF this chef d'oeuvre
! Ia household art occurred about two
weeks before the actual cleaning set
in. First. the curtains. the cushion and
chair covers and the few summer drap-
cries for the drawing room were taken
out, freshened up, washed and got in
entire readiness for the moment 20 pop
into service.
The day before the cleaning all the
| china In the house was washed and
put away in one of the rooms that was
not TO be- cleaned on the first day, books
were taken OF their shelves, brushed
and neatly stacked away, as were the
pictures on the walls and the carpet
beatera were called up and told to be at
the house the next morning at 10
o'clock.
As the man of the house went off TO
the Office in the morning an extra maid
came in TO help with the work. All the
, furniture was moved from the drawing
room. the library and the diningrooni
into the back hall and by the time the
rooms were cleared the carpet men had
arrived. They took up the winter car
= pets within less than an hour and fett
Until lunchtime walls were rubbed
3 down and the extra mHid scrubbed
: floors industriously. Then, after lunch
I with the floors quite dry, they were
. given a good coat OF polish. the wood
e work, too, was polished and the win
= dows washed, 20 that when the carpet
a men returned at 3 o'clock the room
s wore quite ready for the one carpet tha'
T does duty the year round to go dow
y again. for the summer rugs which re
n placed the others. The furniture whic
e. had been rubbed down and busted o.
q while the carpet men laid rugs, wa
3 ready to be moved back.
9 Bv o'clock the pictures were back o
d the walls. the china and books rearrang
Z. cd and the whole ground floor Of th
n house, with the exception OF htche
e and pantry, had passed through th
/, formidable ordeal.
u Upstairs rooms were cleaned the sam
q wav, two rooms at a time, and sine
IS there were rugs rather than carpets o
e the floors, no outside help was required
n other than that of the kitchen maid
q who helped move an occasional piece o
heavy furniture.
a And so. though il took full week Z
A. accomplish the work, the little house
q wife felt amply repaid for her tlm
L when one bright day some weeks late
Al the bread winner remarked; Il see yo
N have the summer rugs and carpet
&c down, my dear, but what's become o
10 the spring housecleaning