The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-09
housekeeping.

The jokes that have been made over
the men that have endured the discom-
\ forts of an old-fashioned housekeeping
have had their share toward helping to
change it from disorderly upheaval to a
systematic process. Training along do
nestle science lines has brought about
many improvements, while the modern
utensils That eat up dust and dirt have
revolutionized the entire regime.
1t is time now to begin thinking about
the extra cleaning that needs to be done
every spring even in the best kept houses.
There are many corners that need occa
sional attention which it is not neces-
sary TO give every week. Life is too
short to make it possible even if it were
desirable to clean thoroughly all closets
and bureaus every week, There are 9th
err things that it is more important to
have done. An occasional cleaning is all
that is necessary. The weather of New
England settles upon the time at the
change of seasons as the most appro-
pirate for this work.
An artist when he begins to paint a
picture is supposed to have in his mind
clear impression of his picture as it is
going to look after it is painted. An
author who starts out to write a book
must know what he wants to say before
he begins to write. A housekeeper be-
fore she begins to clean house needs TO
have clear idea in mind of how she
wants her house to look after she finishes
with the cleaning campaign. She must
have seen clean houses and realize the
difference between order and clutter. She
must have an ideal in her mind of what
an immaculate house is. A person who
has seen modern hospital in its glory
of cleanliness and has realized what UNI
ceasing warfare is waged against dirt
there will have wonderful conception of
what cleanliness and order mean.
A person who has seen home that is
as clean as a good hospital and as pleas.
ing as trained artist can make it, has
an ideal for her own home that is worth
striving to attain. The first thing, then.
necessary for housekeeping is to know
as much as possible of how clean and
beautiful homes may be. This is a study
which every woman should continue all
her life, for no one has yet attained all |
knowledge regarding it, and about it |
we may always be finding ont something |
new and useful.
With our ideals of clean and beautiful |
homes as high as we can make them, we
must next endeavor TO achieve them, |
saws the Boston Traveller. Before begin /
ming the actual labor, take paper and |
pencil and write down everything that /
you wish could be done; then underline
everything that must be done. Make an
outline of the order in which these things
should be done. In arranging this sched
ale of work plan so that strength and
time shall be saved and so that no work
will have to be done over. For example,
he chambers should not be attended to
irst, the attic second, for that would
mean that the dust of the attic would be
,arried down into the freshly cleaned
.hambers and the work be Immediately
Indone. A room should not be cleaned
irst and closet afterward, unless a per-
on loves house cleaning so much that
he wants to clean the room again.
Therefore, make a plan for the spring
louise cleaning, write it down on paper
md then keep TO it. Delays and inter
uptions will come in, but due allowance
or these is to be made in the schedule.
( toe much work is not planned for a
ingle day, interruptions viii not prove
psetting.
Lay out the work over a sufficient
lumber of DAYS. Do not try TO do it {
II at once. The plan may be made out
a some such fashion as this: Begin at
he top of the house, in the attic, if you
re so fortunate as to have one; after 5
hat start the second floor and do the
rst floor last. The cellar, if it has
n outside door, can be cleaned when
yer convenient. Ashes, if they have sc-
umulated, should be entirely removed