Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — A Simple Way to Avoid Dust. [ARTICLE]

A Simple Way to Avoid Dust.

Here is a hint in regard to the prevention of dust that is well worth attention. Dutch artists of old, who had a perfect terror of dust, always chose, it possible, to have their studios in close proximity to a canal. If this was not practicable they got over the difficulty by keeping a large tub of water in their studios, most of the dust flying about the room being caught'in this receptacle. The neighborhood, of a river, the substitute for the Dutch canal, may not always be desirable at the present time, but a bowl of water, especially in these days, when we rejoice in any excuse for multiplying the bric-abrac in our rooms, is within everybody’s reach.