HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11717, 6 June 1916, Page 4

HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS.

The Joneses rented the Smiths 1 house for the summer. Bdfore the Joneses moved in, Mrs Smith had the bouse cleaned. She ha a* tour women and a vacuum cleaner working for iour aays. Then Mrs Jones moved in. "My godness!" she said, -'such dirt I never saw 1" So she had the house cleaned. She employed four, women,.and a vacuum cleaner. " Kow," .said Mrs Jones, "the place is fit to live in." Three months later Jc-he Joneses' tenancy was up and they moved out. "*I must clean the place up," Said Mrs Jones before- she left. So she employed" four women and a vacuum cleaner, and they worked fqur days. Then Mrs Smith moved in. She took one look and raised hex' hands in horror. "My gracious!" she said, "what dirt!" So she employed four women and a vacuum cleaner and they worked four days till the place was fit to sit down in. And they were still the same four women. Query, by a plain man who has.often been moved to and fro and had to eat in the pantry while this kind of thing went on: What do these four women do, anyway?

Moral —Nature abhors sx vacuum cleaner. —Stephen Loucoek, in ''Life."