Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-18
OF Love
and Laughter
BY MARJORIE HOLMES
Spring Cleaning Can Be
A Poetic Experience
Things I like about spring cleaning:

Things like about spring cleaning:
Buckets Of foaming suds, and soft clean cloths in a
pile The intriguing array Of magical sounding
potions and powders.
Dignhed brooms and brushes with their bristy
moustaches. The reckless wind-blown look of
shaggy-headed dustmop. Your vacuum cleaner stand
ing SNUG and little apart in all Its power.
The slender cylinder Of a roled-up rug. Your children
shriekng they try the skiddng nakedness Of floor
Mounting the sturdy inverted Of stepladder to dis
the vaguely eee and auring landscape the tops
Of shelves and sils
Curtains colapsng in a dusty heap. sponging the
placid glass cheeks Of window panes The sparkling new
perspective your efforts give to trees and the neghbors
houses.
The rhythmic xlophone plinkings as you scrub vene-
tan blinds Their slender length coming white and clean
Your books in dizzy mountains Of color on the floor
Sitting among them few moments renewing friendship
with old favores and promising yourse-and believing
you'll reread them all soon
Showing furniture about Working exciting new pat
terms OF arrangement in a room
Freshly roned curtains frothng at the windows.
All the confusion finally licked the confusion changed
charm.
Soothing tired muscles in long hot tub. . Looking
proudly around as you indulge late we-earned snack
The sleep of happy exhaustion as you know that for
little while at least every inch and Granny of your
home is clean!
Who Remembers?
Carpet heaters? Those sturdy curved wire instruments
of with which boys were forced to whack the dust
out Of their mothers rugs? The days when no house
was considered clean without semi-annual hauling out
merry murderous banging away while cloudy pillows of
the gray dust bloomed up and down the streetP
Palmer Method Mystery Solved
Some weeks ago the nostalgia question was asked
Whatever became Of Mr. Palmer whose system of clear
flowing handwriting taught in many schools?
Richard c. Mclean telephoned from New York follow
ing with letter in which the tipping was faithful
to the venerable Palmer script Mr. Palmer died during
the 20s says General Manager Mclean but the firm
he founded is very much alive
In the 20s. IS cent Of the schools used Palmer
Method During the depression. things school
people decided they could do without was handwriting
supervisors and materials
MY best estimate is that right now fourth of our
public schools have handwriting program at ALL" he
explained But interest is being revived and Palmer
Method is going strong"
With the renewed demand for more fundamentals in
school teaching let hope that along with reading and
rthmetic' some emphasis on legibe rng will return
Have You Ever Wondered Why?
Though their mothers consider it catastrophe IN
encounter friend wearing the selfsame hat or dress
little girls rush into each others rejoicing to dis
cover they're dressed alike!
Good. now we can be twins!" they cry And even
call each other up sometimes to make sure they1l no
wearing the same outfit the same day Why does this
particular female trait undergo such radical changer
sundoy Thot old II" you hove the most Won mus,
Except the eos beautifully illustrated of and Ieuohts
in the Women's Section.