Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — HELPS IN HOUSECLEANING [ARTICLE]

HELPS IN HOUSECLEANING

Closet Whero There May Be Orderly ' Arrangement of Utensils Makes the Work Easier. No one thing does more to help easy cleaning than some kind of housecleaging closet. This may be placed under the back stairs, in a rear hall, or even in a back porch. It should be wide and shallow, preferably not more than a foot or eighteen inches in depth, to accommodate buckets, palls, scuttles, etc. One of the most successful closets I know of is built on a back porch of a house in the country. It is about a foot wide and has a narrow shelf extending across at the height of about five feet. On this shelf are kept cleansers, ammonia, stove polish, bathbrick and many other bottles and pans of cleaning necessities. Under the shelf are fastened small holders, into which are slipped the various brooms, mops and tools having long handles, thus keeping each separate and in shape. Small hooks are placed lower down, on which are hung lantern, tin basips, carpet-beater, etc. Several high hooks are reserved for holding mackintosh and farm clothing, and boots share the lower space with buckets and pails.—Woman’s Homo Companion.