Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-10

least once a week, the dining room
and living room every day. Then there
Is the annual housekeeping time,
which brings sadness to man and
some sort of an imperial joy to wom-
an for It is then that she asserts her
royal prerogative and makes home a
bedlan while It lasts. But at last the
task Is done, and every room from
basement to attic has had its scrub
bling and washing and busting, and
things settle back to their natural
order, and it's home again, But with
all this work and worry many homes
too many, are not sanitarily clean. No
home in which only a broom, dust
cloth, and scrub brush are used can
be clean; the carpets can be swept
until they are worn thin, and the
floors scrubbed until the paint is
worn from the boards, but with all
this back bending and knee breaking
labor, woman cannot keep her house
clean even though she wear her
weary life away in the effort. With
her old straw broom, she is not so
much a collector of dirt as she is a
chaser of dirt. She collects a portion
in the dust pan, the remainder she
drives into the air, and 1t collects on
the dishes. the furniture behind the
pictures, and in other hidden places
where her dust cloth never reaches
except at housekeeping periods.
In the days of our grandmothers
these tools for housekeeping were all
she had, and then they were not so
bad, for homes were not so congested.
People lived more in the fresh air and
they were not burdened with the ar
tificiality Of today. They didn't live
tiers deep in flats, and in the dust and
dirt Of large cities. Now the city and
the rural home are found filled with
carpets and rugs and brio "a -brac which
collect and hold the dirt. Would 1 dis
pense with all this finery and all these
comforts and touches of beauty and
good taste? Emphatically, no. But
since modern invention has brought
tools for the house as we'll as the
field and the factory, l would equip my
house with tools that make work easy
and pleasant and effective. The car
pet sweeper and the vacuum cleaner
are a necessity in the modern home,
and no woman can afford to be without
them They are not as expensive as
brooms considering their length of USE
fulness and the service they give Any
family that can afford to buy brooms
can afford to buy these more effective
tools. With the one women chase dirt
and microbes about the house, with the
other she collects them so they can be
burned. She saves time, she saves
busting, she saves the polish on the
furniture. she keeps the carpets free
from dust, she keeps the house clean in
appearance and in reality I grant that
women realize these things more than
men, and have not a very compliment
tary opinion Of the man who supplies
the latest and best modern equipment
for his farm, his office, or his factory
in order to make work more effective,
and is so thoughtless OF his home that
his wife must do her housekeeping
with the ancient broom. Most men
would raise heaven and high water II
they were required to do their work
with equipment as limited as their
wives are required to use in their
housework. If for the paltry sum of
$25 or $50 a new appliance for office.
factory or field which would make
work easier and save time and money,
could be installed to be used OCCASION
ally, man would argue that it was nee
essary to his business, so 1t must be
purchased. But he will sit back and
smoke his ten-cent cigar and quib-
BILE with his wife about spending the
enormous sum of SO or SIS for vac
uum cleaner which she would use every
week. If there is any place on earth
which deserves the best equipment It
is the house in which a woman works
and in which a man lives; therefore. II
economy is to be practiced, let 1t be
outside house cleaning tools and cook
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