The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1916-12-01
SANITATION IN THE HOME
The Nide-Awake Girls and Boys
Learn That the Beauty az the
Hau~e In Order.

House In Order.
sanitation is one OF the most
widely talked subjects, today, is il
not. Miss Margaret"
Yes. and il. like other good things.
can be oyerdone. The sanitation that
want all OF US 10 practice is not
that which makes a woman scrub her
backstairs before she is going TO have
party. or which induces her to
waste much good valuable time and
energy in scrubbing the kitchen three
times a week. There is something
so much finer and bigger than that
The beauty OF the house is order.
and system is the greatest possible
preventive OF disorder and irritation.
Have a place and reason for the
place. for every thing In the house.
A little dirt, more or less. in your
house. and your life is no poorer:
but if you let the vision fail. ii the
days 20 by and you read no inspiring
book. no thrilling poem. think no
lofty thoughts. have no stranger
within your gates. you are eternally
the loser Many woman keep her
iloors and coverings spoi.es5. has
everything shiny, allows no dit in
her house and still bars ser win
dows with the first breath 0f autumn
and leaves them tight shut until the
spring. \ clean floor TO- her feet
and flthy air for her lunr 5, and still
she would call herself saa.tsTy."
Look Out For the Big Things.
Miss Margaret. ii would seem
that We are too clean about cur
housekeeping. would it rots''
Undoubtedly. in some cases.
where We scorn room liJered with
the children's toys and our sewing
and books. and yet would not have
you misunderstood me; We would be
sanitary by all means. bat We should
not neglect the big things in paying
too much attention to details. What
is the use OF polishing the dipper il
surface water runs into the well?"
Mother says that a clean, orderly
home is what often makes fine char
acters.
Yes. indeed 4 clean. systematic,
beautiful home, is the environment
that helps to mold the inmates. that
comes to their aid when they have
gone out into the world and tempta-
tons come. that rises up before one
as the true standards when he starts
to make home for himself. II is the
right OF every child and every child
should have it,"
Aunt Margaret" sair Mary quiet
sshA,,. IL To EaAp thfnsrr oil
when there are SO many children and
so much work to be done? Baby's
getting sick Unexpectedly and taking
a whole days time. and so forth"
BY system, dearie. When you go
into business office, you will proba
bly, see dust on the safe and CRIME on
the window pane. but when client
walks in and wishes to know about
that probably took place
several years ago what happens
Why. the business man simply turns
in his chair, runs his finger down a
file, pulls cut a drawer, and there is
the record for the visitor. The may
have been days when his business was
interrupted. too. Does this same
thing happen in house? If the
mother wishes something. what does
she do?"
A Place For Everything.
Il know. She tumbles over every
thing in the bureau drawers, emp
ties half dozen trunks, peeks into a
dozen impossible places, and ends by
not finding the article" contributed
Dan.
You are more correct than you
think" replied Aunt Margaret.
Now, | want to know just why We
cannot each keep list of the things
in our room and mother list of the
things in the kitchen and other
rooms, similar to the one that bust
ness man has," VI
MY dear, that is just what you
can do, and then when your mother
wishes a particular thing all she has
to do is TO consult her list. and send
a child to get ii out Of the right
hand corner of the third drawer in
the spore room. 1t seems that we
have strayed long way from our
original subject of sanitation. but re-
member that order is the first means,
and the best, to sanitation. ! think
that we can easily go on with our
talk. John is II difficult to keep
things clean in the city,"
why, | should think that you
would have to be sanitary whether
you wished to or not"
you are exactly right: for every
day the trash man comes around for
your trash, there are water and sewer
connections, a covered waste-can in
the yard, and If you haven't II
knowledge or self-respect TO keep
clean, your neighbors compel you to-"
1T certainly is different in the
country where everyone has to do his
own cleaning up"
First Essential OF Sanitation.
Yes, the farmer must depend up
on himself for his own sanitation,
and the trouble is that so few farm
ers realize the importance OF il. Now. |
John, what to your mind are the first
essentials of sanitation in the homer"
Running water" interrupted Bes-
sic, 'for that makes cleaning easy"
"Simplt houses and furnishings
and furnace instead OF fireplaces,"
said Alice.
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