| Show THAT TIME OF THE YEAR Marjorie Riley Salt Lake City Non-Professional Second Annual spring house Division Place cleaning time Utah Essay was really something something to behold and something to remember Whether or not the house needed cleaning was of little matter it had to be done anyhow Each room of the house was cleaned separately and thoroughly and in order to do this curtains were taken down carpets were taken up and every stitch of furniture was taken out hair armed themselves went to work at times broom Housewives who wore dust caps to protect with brooms pails ladders and all such enlisting the help of husbands and kids stuff their and Walls and ceilings ofroom were dusted Tightly withTong-handled over which collected during towel had the winter been months thrown to get cobwebs But if the walls fresh calsomine down and that ceilings had were ariny from coal smoke they were given fresh coats of calsomine or whitewash Colors of the cold-water paint were changed from year to year to make rooms look different The smell sort of took onebreath away Carpets removed called from were of cleaned in various the of around tack puller edges and ingenious hand-loomed The carpet was dragged was invigorating but ways Carpet carpet with tacks little outside where it were tool folks stationed at the four corners proceded to give itgood healthy shaking then turned it over and shook it violently again Sometimes the carpet was placed overclothes Tine and beaten with brooms or big sticks In the meantime piles of straw and dust were swept was gone over withwet mop Fresh straw was laid to get up and on the knew foot board the carpetbeing put down again clean side up of course how to use carpet stretcher how to push the carpet properly without tearing it Once tacked down again at the mop boards The fun the fresh straw and running from one end exciting than anyone can imagine the the dust out the wooden floor floor prior to Only adults to stretch in place the carpet was of bouncing up and down on of the room to the other was know forwas there more The time came when front rooms and parlors were covered with nine by nine or twelve by twelve store-bought flower designed plush rugs The common cleaning procedure for suchrug was to take it to the front lawn and then then right have side dust to escape ed the rug was two or down three kids drag Contact with Every few years replaced it back the grass imitation and forth right forced hardwood most side up and of the accumulated linoleum which border Dust particles filled the room and covered the furniture whenrug was swept withreqular straw broom before the advent of carpet sweepers and vacuum cleaners It was found that by shaking drops of water here and there on the rug frombroom dipped inwash basin of cold water good deal of the dust could be eliminated when the room was swept So the procedure became common practice |
