The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-03-30
WHEN WOMEN CLEAN HOUSE

Z illimitable army Of sturdy upstand
: ing soldiers, takes possession of the
n land overnight, and the morning all
from an opened window touches Mrs
Housekeeper's cheek with soft fingers
! instead of the singing slap she had
anticipated, she and several millions
Of her sisters get ready to clean
, house.
housekeeping isn't what it used to
be. More praise to the jolly old the
DRY Of modern efficiency! We do not
go through these long-drawn-out,
; jagonizing, semi-annual orgies of rip
ping carpets up and draperies down
and dumping these along with most
of the furniture of our homes, in a
mad maelstrom in the back yard every
morning for couple of weeks, drag
ging them in again at night lest the
ispring rains take an officious hand
in the cleansing process. On the con-
trary most of us have learned like
Alice-in-Wonderland to keep our Or
der in one room and our disorder in
another" when we clean house. Still
clean house we must. There isn't
woman living who doesn't want to
turn some of her things out doors to
the sunny air of spring time after
long winter of confinement and coal
dust. 1t is good, when the furnace
or steam heating plant, (Which ought
to be but isn't innocent Of the crime Of
sending through the house daily con-
tributions of grime) is finally turned
off for the season, to have a grand
turnover of all the furnishings which
have stood in the way of this sooty
of roses and"-not wine, but whatever
substitute we can find in our nice
clean electrified ice box.
The shops, which are so clever in
fitting their wares to the fancy of :he
moment, are fitting their offerings
just now to the we'll known habits of
housewives. They feature all man
ner of housekeeping tools and equip
ment. Always, of course, the efficient
electric cleaner is the central figure
in these displays.
The daily use of electric equipment !
has done away with most of the hard |
labor of housekeeping. Homes have |
been kept comparatively free from |
loose dust all through the year by |
the hungry cleaner. which, under
standing hands have directed not only
over rugs and hangers, but over all |
kinds Of hooks and CRANES where |
dust likes to Turk and then pop out
mockingly when a breeze passes its
hiding place. But in this spring clean
ing it will be found desirable to give
the cleaner its head and let it get
right down to bedrock, taking out the
last vestige of dust from places where
in the regular weekly or daily clean
ings it has not been convenient or
practicable to attack.
If walls are not being repapered, it
will be well to wipe these with one
of the long-handled lambs wool
brushes sold for this purpose This
does not mark wall paper as other
brushes do; but it must be kept clean. D.,
Being washable, this is quite easy. =
Before this process, however, one :.
tops of window and door frames and +,
nary cleaning days, with the electric :.
cleaner attachment and the length Of !,
he room up above the range Of ordi-
nose provided for this purpose. 1t is
very easy to do this cleaning at the !,
light time; the artificial fingers Of the :
7ice lifts the little mats of dust from r
hese high spots carefully and clever -
y, without throwing it back in the
ace of the director or over her other
furnishings.
In high cupboards. behind and :,
Lround drawers, on closet shelves, in :
revices where baseboards are loose,
nto bedsprings and across the Stats -
these, dust may be remov- ~
d easily and in sanitary manner b
With the same attachment. Dust in =,
edsprings accumulateS fast aud y,
hough one does not come in direct .,
ontact with it yet it is bound to sift -
own to the floor or be thrown up -,
rard into the mattress with every u;
light jar or moevmene OF the bed. The
latress itself will be better for -
aving the upholstery attachment run ~
yer it while renovation is going on
Another place dust is hard to attack 4,
accessibility is around the felt ham, ~,
ers and under the wires of an open 90
,p (grand) piano. Here again the -,
ender noseed hose-red attachment of -,
lie electric cleaner does splendid a.
'rvice. Dust is destructive to the ho
ne mechanism Of the piano and it -,
lould be removed. On
House cleaning is really more a mat 60
r OF changing and renewing these oh
lys than Of heavy work. With the ~
eaner there is another device-it o.
light be called the cleaners twin sis
(which will scrub floors electri-
lily, and then by the changing of
ush will wax and polish the floors.
his makes 1t possible to remove old
lish by using strong solutions Of 20
ashing soda or soap and I've, with ine
t injuring the hands or doing any Gil
I'd work. Then wax may be ap- er,
led to the floors, this being the most to
vored finish for hard wood floors, 19z