COMMON-SENSE CLEANING

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1929, Page 7

COMMON-SENSE CLEANING

Choose fine days. Sunshine, streaming in through open windows, has a tonic effect on workers.

Turn the room you are cleaning f out-of-doors, ’ if possible, as well as upside down. Use your lawn, if you have one, for carpet beating and furniture ingKeep one room cosy and tidy, with a good fire going. You may be glad of 10 minutes' rest there during the day. Don't go short of food, and keep to your regular meal hours. Have something hot simmering on the stove. Cold meat oaten among a medley of disarranged furniture is too depressing to do you any good. Don't hurry your meals. Get the day’s allotment of work over before yoair husband comes home. Don’t ask him to hang up the pictures ■directly ho appears. Don’t attempt tasks that are beyond your strength, and don’t go on working when you feel worn out.

Leave the evenings free. If you feci like..it, a visit to the kinema or a theatre will refresh you. If you are too tired to go our, change into a nice frock and begin an exciting novel.

Get that '' ruthless ’ ’ mood —in moderation. Throw out or give away everything that you feel is non-essen-tial. Don’t let sentiment turn you into a hoarder of rubbish.

Don't forget that your home is suffering from “that tired feeling,’’ the rctfn'lJt of the dark months of winter. Lot it show a clean lifted face to the world.

Get as much pleasure and satisfaction out of it as you can.