€—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 26, 1959
For tl
Farm Wife and Family
Efficiency in Housekeeping
Cleaning your floors regularly rather than letting them
build up into one big job can pay off in dividends in the
long run. Floors need to be kept clean so that grit and
lint aren’t ground into the floor. This will help to keep
your floors from looking dingy.
Regular cleaning also will give them the protective fin
save you money It is much ish that makes cleaning easy,
less expensive to give your The type of wax you use de-
Iloor frequent care than to re- pends on the wear and tear
new its appearance after it on your floor.
has become scratched and
dull
Patting down small rugs £wo to eight week Intervals
or mats in front of your en- jf y OU c j e an, wax and polish
tryways will also help to cut y Q ur floors, they will last
down on the wear on your anywhere from one to three
floors months Paste was should last
You should use equipment on a floor between one and
to pick up the lint on your six mon ths
floor without scratching it Coats f wax will build up
Such items as a soft hair- Qn floors when you use
broom or the smooth floor ulh repeat
brush on your vacuum clean- edl / and it isil>t worked ofl
er work very well. You can b wear and tear Qr ord , nar
sprinkle a dust mop or a cleaning This wax often ye i.
string mop with water and lows or darkens your floors .
they will pick up lint easily To prevent thls
wax “build
To clean the floor surface use thm coats of wax
as it is needed you can use Wax entire floor Qne
a sponge mop that has been tune and the next time just
dampened witii water. wax the trafflc lanes R e
A b ™ o ™’ vacuum brush move wax coating after a
or a slightly dampened mop certain eriod of time .
wdl do a good job of cleaning You should be able to re .
asphalt tile, rubber tile, or move some o£ this wax
waxed surfaces in your daily through ordinary wear and
cleaning Don t use a mop c i ean - ng Special wax re
with ofl m it because it movers have been dev eloped
m>ght soften the suifaces of and are on the market ut
these floor coverings. need to be carefilll in
To cut down on your daily usin these d follow the
cleaning job, keep spilled direc tions carefully,
liquid wiped up These pick Plard scrubbing^ will also
up lint and dirt which makes take oft part of the polishing
your caning job more work type wax but probab B .
than it should be ly have to use turpentine to
WHAT KIND OF KLOOR take it off completely If you
WAX TO USE? use steel wool to remove the
Waxing your floors can wax, me sure to use plain
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The Directors, Officers and
Employees wish Everyone
A
Happy and Prosperous
New Year
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AtfoeiASPN ir lancaStiii
25 North Duke St.
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Gilbert H. Hartley Emlen H. Zellers
Treasurer Secretary
Geo. L. Diehl James N. Esbenshade
Asst. Treasurer Asst. Secretary
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FLOORS
Floors waxed with a water
base wax should be done at
steel wool rather than pads study showed that the most Gloss, semi gloss and one
that have been prepared for dirt was removed during the coat paints rated good in
kitchen use. first runs of the cleaners soil resistance and were easy
* * * the first 12 minutes with a 9 to wash. So did rubber-base
by 12 rug; increasing am- and casein paint Flat paint
ounts of dirt were removed soiled easier and was harder
as the time increased. to wash
Most homemakers know Wallboard materials made
that some rugs are easier to with a baked-on gloss pa'nt,
get clean than others. In a laminated plastics and wall
close woven pile rug, dirt tiles were all highly resist
may become so deeply em- ant to stains and easy to
bedded that vacuum cleaning clean. The soap and water or
will not remove all of it; detergent cleaner solution
periodic cleaning by pro- both washed these surfaces
fessional rug cleaners is rec- easily.
ommended in such cases Stains that gave the most
trouble on wall surfaces were
WALLS ink, lipstick, crayon, shoe
Washing walls with a mild polish, mustard and shaving
soap and warm water seems cream. Usually it took a mild
to do as good a job as pow- scouring powder to remove
dered detergent cleaners, ac- these
cording to a recent U S De
partment of Agriculture re
search. When you have IRONING
sta’ns that have stood for Even with modern fabrics
sometime you may need to there seems to be some iron
use a mild scouring powder, ing that needs to be done. If
All three cleaning methods it still seems to take too
tested on 11 different wall much time, you might look
materials showed that either for some ways to cut down
the soap or detergent cleaner on ironing
worked well on all types of Start by taking time to
wa’ls hang things straight on the
Some walls washed more ]ne so they wil 1 come off as
easily than others but wall- smooth as possible,
paperes were the hardest to If you use a dryer, you’ll
clean. Even washable papers learn to dry clothes until
were harder to get clean than they are just right for ironing
any of the six kinds of paint or to fold Too much drying
tested just puts in lots of wrinkles
The findings in a recent
of vacuum cleaning of all
wool rugs all wool mcd um
to high grade wiltons and
and velvets - may be helpful
to homemakers at this season
when much dirt may be
brought in from outside.
Manufacturers of vacuum
cleaners advise emptying the
dust bag after every cleaning
but this is not always done
in home practice The study
emphasized that cleaning ef
ficency declines as the bag
fills with dirt.
All air entering the cleaning
nozzle must be drawn thru
the bag, and as the bag fills
with dirt, less air—and less
dirt-are drawn in. However,
keeping the bag free of dirt
is more important to the
cleaning efficiency of some
vacuum cleaners than others,
the study showed.
Twelve different cleaners
were used m the study—four
sweeper cleaners of different
makes, four canister clean
ers, and three horizontal tank
cleaners With one make of
cleaner, the cleaning efficien
cy dropped only 9 per cent
as the bag filled, while anoth
er showed a 31 per cent
drop
Sweeper-type cleaners re
moved more dirt from rugs
in the test than other types
(The newer canister cleaners
w th a rotating power driven
brush in the nozzle were not
included in the test.) The
I GREETINGS TO ALL OUR WE SINCERELY
P ' APPRECIATE YOUR
U FRIENDS EVERYWHERE PATRONAGE
Lancaster
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