Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

It used to be that housewives had ont
grand Spring "house cleaning but nov
| they take ii in easy stages, one IN th'
Snring and one in the Fall just before
the furnace Is started.
Perhaps the ladies will resent tina
| word "casv." but we hope not, for i
is meant in the best of spirit, and onl!
in comparison with the old-faShloneC
house-Wrecking process that was the
despair of every male person WhomSo'
ever
Modern days modern ways. No more
is the house completely upset, SO ina
the masculine portion of the married
team is forced to seek refuge at tn'
office from clouds of dust and furniture
sitting in the most unsupported places
All that-at least, most OF lt-na'
been changed by the advent OF tne
vacuum cleaner, which enables Wom'
an to keep a home clean with aoou
tenth the fuss OF the olo-1lme
broom.
Brooms still hold an honored place
in the household. They come in handy
in even the most modern house, dons
Jobs that no fancy electric contraptior
can possibly perform. You cannot Shun
a cat of the back steps with vacuum
sweeper. Cats laugh at them. But LEI
/ the business end of a good broom o.
applied with force to the cats posterlor
the animal is glad to escape down the
steps as fast as he can
X X x X
The Autumn housekeeping is upor
the city.
EVERYWHERE now the admirer of the
feminine portion of humanity Will sec
ladies with their heads tied up in towels
ambling in and out doors bearing huge
masses of clothing to save them IRON
the ravages of that Biblical insect. the
moth, whose ability to select the. very
garment one most prizes is almost
human.
Moths never seem to go in for ole
clothes. but usually choose new ones
the more expansive the better they likt
them. The old propaganda about thel
only tackling cloth on which food ha
been spilled is regarded with susplcloi
by the average housewife. She knows
that these ubiquitous insects Will 81
found on anything that is nice ant
woolly. Brand-new sweaters, when nave
not a drop of grease upon them, are
especially priced by moths.
So long lines of clothes will be seer
waving in the crisp breeze on sum!
afternoons. OvercoatS, sweaters, WOO
dresses evening clothes, coats OF al
descriptions are suspended by hangers
the hangers being anchored to TIL;
clothesline by that magic instrument O.
womankind. the clothespin.
The clothespin is as old as humanity
The Romans had them, and the Greek
too, and they looked much like tn
clothespins of today-the pins, not thu
Romans and the Greeks. When tn
clothespin was invented there were NJ
patent laws, so that the inventor O
this household necessity went withou
his reward If this device had been pu
on the market today, the clever mar
who first thought it UP would be {
millionaire overnight. He would see hi
royalty checks waving in every breeze
that shook clotheSline.
How many million miles OF clothesllnt
are stretched out in American yards
every Monday? 1t would be an interest
ing computation, perhaps not so difficult
to arrive at as might seem at frs
thought. But then no one can be sure
of what will be done with clothesline
Sometimes little Johnny uses it for g
lasso. or the old man demands 1t to tie
I'D the family trunk when vacation i
the order of the day Sometimes II
is even used as leash for Fido.
Now the slip covers must come on
furniture. Slip covers are one OF the
especial hobbies of women. There art
MANY such hobbies, but this Is one Of
the most virulent. There Is no house
wife anywhere who does not pine for
set of slip covers, as they call them, tf