Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1913 — WHEN CLEANING HOUSE [ARTICLE]

WHEN CLEANING HOUSE

SIMPLEST AND QUICKEST METHODS OF DOING THE WORK. Housewife of Experience, of Course* Has Her Own Manner of Doing Things, but These Hints May Be of Value. For those who have put oft their housecleaning from the .spring to the autumn the time of reckoning has finally arrived. Perhaps a few words as to the simplest and quickest way to get through this period of trial may be welcome to many housewives. If you own a house start at the top and work downward. If you are a flat dweller, begin in the room farthest away from the hall door, always leaving the kitchen until the last One direction applies to every room in the house. First take dbwn all hangings and draperies. The carpets, too, must are to be replaced by new, the old coverings immediately sent to /the laundry or cleaners. If not, they should be carried out of doors and given a thorough brushing and beating. Next, all pictures and ornaments should be removed from the walls and thoroughly dusted and cleaned. These should then be piled in a safe spot and covered from the dust. After this the floor should be well swept. When this is finished the wall should be swept off with a clean broom twice, then gone over with a duster. The floor should be brushed lightly to collect such dirt as may have fallen from the walls. Chairs which are stuffed should be thoroughly beaten with a bamboo bat, and then the woodwork on them polished. For the fine furniture, which may be spoiled by a polish of beeswax or turpentine, a good furniture cream should be used, but this should be'tried very carefully before using on fine woods. Also a perfectly dry silk cloth should be used. For dining-room furniture the oldfashioned mixture of turpentine and beeswax is better than anything else. For leather covered chairs this is much better and safer than any newfangled concoctions you may be persuaded to buy. If there ie a fireplace in the room this should be well cleaned and the hearth well enameled. Then scrub the floor thoroughly, using a strong carbolic soap and hot water. When the floor is perfectly dry. the clean carpet may be put down and the stretches of floor which surround it should be well polished with plenty of beeswax and turpentine.

All cushions should be beaten out of doors before being returned to their accustomed places. The pictures should now be rehung, the windows cleaned and fresh curtains put up. If the housewife will try one room at a time in this manner she will see that even the men In the T family will not complain, for they will not know that housecleaning is going on. - -