. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . gray or blue. —Mrs. Sangster 86 Home and Health Cleanliness and thrift go hand in hand. CLEANLINESS Cleanliness is of first importance in housekeeping. Itshould be considered before order. If we can not haveboth, says Ada Cox, in Good Health, let us dispense with the me one bareroom with afloor that I canscrub, and wallswhich, if theymust be paperedto hold the plas-tering, I cancover with cleannewspapers,— aroom which
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . gray or blue. —Mrs. Sangster 86 Home and Health Cleanliness and thrift go hand in hand. CLEANLINESS Cleanliness is of first importance in housekeeping. Itshould be considered before order. If we can not haveboth, says Ada Cox, in Good Health, let us dispense with the me one bareroom with afloor that I canscrub, and wallswhich, if theymust be paperedto hold the plas-tering, I cancover with cleannewspapers,— aroom which Ican have full ofGods free, freshair and sunshine,and a few simplearticles placedas I wish them,rather than afull suite withsumptuous up- A V. no/esojiic example holstCriug a U d silk hangings, full of germs which every touch sendsflying, and only air that has long since forgotten that itwas God-made, so many times has it been man-made is the environment of health. Like sun-sliine, it is the natural enemy of germs and pests. Clean-liness gives character to the home and to the nation,and places a healthful mold upon succeeding Cleanliness and Order 87 Want of care does us more damage than want of knowl-edge.—Benjamin Franklin Mothers cleanliness is, and ought to be, quoted, talkedabout, and emulated by her daughters. The clean, sandedfloors of Holland are praised the world around, and havecontributed a wholesome influence upon housekeepers. Indeed, the homes ofAmerica are sweeterand cleaner to-dayfrom the influence ofthe oft-repeated storyof the Dutch house-wives of ManhattanIsland scrubbingtlieir door-steps, near-ly three centuries ago. OEDEB. As already statedin a previous para-graph, order shouldnot be made such aninflexible fad as tocrowd out good senseand variations in thehousework; yet it iswonderful how much Thoughtless and Shiftless ^^^^-^^ ^j^^ ^^^j^ ^f ^^^^ house can be done if it is carefully planned are thousands
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