Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1920 — ANNUAL TIME OF TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

ANNUAL TIME OF TROUBLE

Housecleaning Date May Change, but Its Consequences Can by No Means Be Avoided. Housecleaning is one of the spring festivals that has no fixed date, being movable on the domestic calendar. It is observed In many places following the close of the Lenten season, when the first crocus has bloomeiT Its welcome to the returning birds, when the grass shows, green, the sun mounts higher each day and the buds are puffed up with ambition to clothe tree and shrub in summer garb It’s close at hand, may be celebrated now as each domestic circle elects, and may be expected to show many of the characteristics of the olden days. Men should not grumble when the festival is In progress. They get the easiest part. They may have difficulty In locating what they want, but they are in it only part of the time; the home folks are there all It is one time of the year when the men folks ought to smile. —Ohio State Journal.