Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1920 — HOUSECLEANING TIME. [ARTICLE]

HOUSECLEANING TIME.

To the masculine mind, the annual upheaval of housedeaning has a certain inexplicable quality. It comes and goes like the seasons and the tides fixed and arbitrary periods. The average man can not see any particular need for it when it comes, nor any particular improvement when it is completed. The old fashioned housewife long ago grasped the principle mat cleanliness is an essential to good health. She was really the pioneer in the development of modern sanitation. Long before germs and microbes were thought about, her instinct for spotlessness impelled her to the annual scrimmage with broom and mop and duster. The shining sweetness of the old fashioned home must have had something to do with the rugged soundness of the older generation, offsetting to some extent Hie lack of scientific knowledge about disease.