The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-21
THE CUB SAYS

, and filth and fly specks generally
leaves the screen door hung all win
ter so it will be there in the spring.
A screen door that hangs all winter
in snow and rain and icicles Is of no
use when the winter is over, and it
makes an infinite amount of delay
and inconvenience for the family
passing in and out all the time.
From about the last of October till
June there Is no use for screens and
the time the solid house door is
kept open waiting for the person to
adjust the screen is enough to let
heat escape from the house and that
adds to the family chill and the
coal bill. Sometimes a quart of
milk is spilled, by the screen door
humping it, and sometimes a quart
of water. One makes a loss and a
grease spot, and the other is good
for spot of ice on a cold day and
somebody is liable to slip on it.
A screen door is generally held
shut by spring. In winter the
spring may be unlocked and the
door swings and bangs in the wind
or gathers icicles from the caves and
breaks under the load. The storms
of seven months cold weather do
much more to rust and wreck screen
doors than the heat and drought of
five months of hot weather. Nearly
all screen doors need to be oiled
or painted and repaired once year
and this can be done cheaper in the
idle season.
A screen door is composed of a
frame and some screen, usually
painted wire. At some homes the
wire gets badly treated and it gets
baggy and there are holes where
flies can pass. Sometimes the wires
break along the edges and need to
be patched with strip of thin cloth
carefully sewed fast to keep flies
from passing. A screen door costs
from about $3.50 to 81. A pretty
good screen door, painted and ready
to hang, and supplied with fixtures
can be had in Bingham county for
81, or the equivalent of about four
and half pounds of butter or half
sack of wheat. The windows of
house can be protected by lacking
mosquieto netting on the outer cas-
ing at cost of few cents per
window. 1t is not necessary to
screen all windows unless all are
used for ventilation. In most houses
some windows are seldom or never
opened, and they need not be screen
ed.
Men generally think screens are
more expensive and much more
trouble to get and put up than they
really are. The housekeeper is u.s.
ually more interested in screens
than the man is, but after a time
a woman gets used to going without
them. When she reaches that stage |
she is pretty far gone, like the man
who never washes his neck. The man
who has made his wife do without |
screens till she has gotten used to
it Is getting his punishment all
right, but he doesn't realize it. She
has lost the fine lines of cooking and
housekeeping; she had to.
The month of October is when
screens do the most good. That is
when flies are hungry and cold and
and filthy and poison and
fullest of disease.
It doesn't take long to buy two
dollar screen door if one has the two
dollars, and it is only few minutes
sport to hang it. Then comes the i
job of getting the flies out of the
house. The easiest way to do it is
% just darken the windows by hang
ng up something on the outside, and
he flies light on the screen door,
where there is light. Every few
minutes just swing it open and
swish them off into space, and soon
he inside of the house will be clear
If them. Be careful not OF leave
my cellar windows open or any gar
'et windows, for if you do they will s
ome back to smile with you.