Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — To Sweep Floors. [ARTICLE]

To Sweep Floors.

Cqkcebnino this very important operation the New York Obterver says: In the days nf ‘Puritan grandmothers no girl was considered fit to receive proposals of marriage until she could make a good hemlock broom; but in theso later thnesjnany a young lady not only oilers herself in. the matrimonial market, but absolutely gets married, and undertakes to manage her house, without knowing how to-use a broom that some one else has made. We have seem a broom uscil so unskillful ly that one would think the pursqn engaged in using it was endeavoring 'to transfer tlie dust from the floor to tlie furniture. It requires some science, or at least skill, to use a broom well. To do this skillfully, tin 4 'handle should lifeline forward and not back. If the top of the broom inclines forward beyond the part next the floor, it will prevent much of the, dust from rising into the air, and will carry it along by a gentle ’sliding motion toward the place where it is to be disposed of. If, on the other hand, the handle of the broom inclines backward, the dust is sent in the air by a kind of jerk, to the detriment of everything In the apartment. More than this, it wears off the th rtf ads of the carpet quicker, injures the paint more, if the floor is uncarpetcd, and destroys the broom |ooner than if the sweeping is done In a rational Vhy: A hilt sir ot Bn sties ft always better to sweep a carpet, as it Is lejis liable to “ kick up a dust.,” or to injure tfiertexture at' the carpet.