DUST AND DUSTING.
At all times unwholesome, when dampness gets hold of dust it ferments, decays, and becomes positively poisonous. This must needs happen on any rainy day or foggy mornings, on dewy nights, and that season of the year when dampness seems to penetrate the house, and it is not yet time to light the fires which might dry it out or hinder it The rooms of a dwelling-house, then, cannot be too thoroughly swept and dusted off, in order that the least possible dust may be left in them. Many housewives think that the less the dust is stirred in sweeping the better the work is done, and tea-leaves and wet grass or moistened meal are thrown about the floor in order to gather the dust and prevent it from rising. But people giving the matter philosophical attention have come to the conclusion that precisely the opposite course is the right and proper one ; that a good stirring up and tben a good blowing out are what the dust needs, with a wind blowing unobstructedly through the room as thoroughly as a wind can be made to blow.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1356, 1 June 1887, Page 5
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