The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-29
A HINT FOB HOUSEWIVES.

A HINT FOB HOUSEWIVES.
Now that the spring season is here
and every housewife in Chicago has
the housekeeping fever-whieh by the
way is very desirable disease to have
the Department of Health will like
to offer few suggestions.
Of course, along with housekeeping
comes generally new decorations, which
involve painting woodwork and putting
new paper on the wall. Now, if the
paper hanger has taken possession of
your fat, keep your eye on him. Don't
waste your energy finding fault with
the cook because you are dining in the
kitchen. Watch that paper hanger and
see that the old paper is removed from
the walls before the new paper goes on.
There is an ordinance, prohibiting
putting new paper on over old in tene-
ment houses. But because it costs
little more to take off the old paper,
sometimes both tenants and paper
hangers are willing to overlook this or
dinance requirement and go ahead in
the old way.
There is a decided advantage from
the standpoint of cleanliness and sani-
tation to have all old paper removed
first before re-papering. By doing this
fewer harboring places are left for YER
min of various kinds that are apt to
infest tenements. Removing the old
paper and "sizing" the walls and cell
ings insures clean walls. It also in
sures you against any undesirable lega-
cies that might have been left by
former tenants.
So, if the paper hanger tells you that
the landlord said it would be all right
to put the new paper on over the old,
assure him that it will not be all right
and that you want the old paper re-
moved. Stand for your rights under
the ordinance. Appeal to the Health
Department, if necessary, and we will
try to help you all we can to have your
apartments made as clean and safe as
it is possible to make them.
Again we say spring is here. With it
comes the robins, the bluebirds, the
budding trees and plants. With it also
has come the clean up feeling.
Now is the time then, to begin the
work of renovating your entire prem
Uses. Especially, should careful atten-
ton be given to the winters accumula-
ton of ashes, rubbish and the many
kinds of cast off material and refuse
that are allowed to accumulate during
the winter months. It is good plan
also to clean up that basement while
you are at it. It is amazing how much
rubbish will accumulate during the
winter that should be given to the rub
bish collector to be hauled away. Of
course, this does not include material,
rich in heat units, that may be burned
in the furnace or CRATE and put to good
use; but most Easements are badly clut-
tered up with material that should be
removed.
And then, after this Kidding out
process has been carefully performed,
why not try a coat of whitewash to
the basement walls and ceilingsf In
addition to being excellent from SAM
tary standpoint making your basement
clean and sweet, it also makes it
lighter, brighter and a better basement
than it was before. Lime is cheap,
water is still cheaper, so that it costs
almost nothing to apply whitewash to
alley fences, basement walls and cell
ings and other places where needed.
Why not take your exercise with
rake and hoe and the whitewash brushf
You will find it will be just as benefi-
cial as Juggling a bag of iron clubs
over the golf links.