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HOUSECLEANING RAGE.
By Levi A. Miller.
‘Now is the time, they say, but I say non-
sense!
Better remain in peace till by and by;
Then, by degrees, set everything in order
When days grow warm beneath a warm-
er sky,
Let those who will bring to their discom-
fort,
And make their kith and kin look precious
glum,
Catch cold for want of fires—get faint and
hungry;
And all because uneasy spring has come;
But girls, don’t you do it.”
It is a foregone conclusion, that
every woman who reads the above
verse will be willing to take her soi-
emn oath, or affirmation, that it was
written by a man. The conclusion is
a very natural one, because the wom-
an who can restrain herself from tear-
ing out the stove, jerking up the car-
pets and washing windows the first
day the sun shines brightly is a phe-
nomenon, and it is not to be expected
that one of her own sex would write a
thing so at variance with their senti-
ments. It was a woman who wrote it,
or at least Margaret Eytinge’s name
is signed to it. She may have had a
towel tied around her head, a big
apron on with a tack-hammer in one
pocket and a scrub-brush in the oth-
er, and her feet encased in a pair of
well-worn rubbers. You never can
tell by the poetry she writes what a
woman has in her mind.
That peculiar quality of solar en-
ergy that sets a flowing the vital cur-
rents in the shrub and tree, starts
boys to jumping and flying Kites,
arouses snakes from their lethargy
and calls forth the modest daffodil,
has a most marked effect on women.
Like the birds, they begin singing ear-
lier in the mornings than usual, and
are fretful as porcupines. Carpets,
wall paper and white-washing are
their chief topics of conversation. A
cobweb in the corner annoys them
dreadfully, and a dirty window ren-
ders them nervous and ugly.
One day of sunshine in spring will
work a wonderful change in a house
at such times. The comfortable, tidy
dress gives place to a ripped and slit
wrapper, rings and bracelets are laid
aside with bangs and collars, whole
shoes give place to ragged ones sup-
plimented by an old pair of rubbers,
while a towel takes the place of the
neat and becoming dusting cap.
If a man has any business to attend
to out of town this is a good time to
attend to it.
at home unless he joins the gang. To
attempt to do business and live in the
house may set him crazy. If not so
bad as that it may derange his liver
and make him cranky, which is all the
worse, for if there ever is a time when
a woman is queen it is during house
cleaning. She is then a sovereign
ruler, and will tolerate no interference.
The piano is locked up, the work-
basket packed away in a closet, brass
hammering tools exchanged for tack-
hammers, and crochet needles for dust
pans and feather dusters. Grate
fronts are dragged out from their
winter quarters, chimney stuffers
raked out, and old barrels and
ash buckets resurrected from their
old hiding places. It is a mystery
where she finds all these things, but
she finds them, and there is no use ob-
jecting to their presence in the halls,
on stair landings and cellar stairs.
Did you ever notice how unphilo-
sophically a woman begins the spring
cleaning? About the first move is to
turn everything topsy-turvy in her
bed room. The next is to pile things
up in the parlor and leave them so.
Thus she goes through the house un-
til there is not a room that does not
look as if there had been an auction
in it. With hall carpets loosened and
stair rods removed, a man is in dan-
ger of falling and breaking his neck
at every step. Now a woman is ready
to begin business. She has everything
before her and she knows just what
is to be done. With torn and bleed-
ing fingers, knees sore and stiff from
crawling over carpets, and shuffling
step caused by ill-fitting shoes, she
rushes in.
About the only indication that heav-
en has a hand in the affair is that the
woman has torn everything up from
cellar to garret. Were it not she
would repent her rashness about the
second day and retire to that portion
of the house not in a state of chaos.
But like Noah’s dove, she has not
where to set a foot. The bridges are
burned behind her, and she must fight
the engagement to a successful issue.
The result is that housecleaning is
over in a week, whereas if it were
done, a room at a time, it would last
the summer.
Men often object to having the
house all torn up, but it is clear that
they do not take a philosophic view of
the matter. “The fiercer the storm
the sooner it is over,” applies beauti-
fully to housecleaning; therefore, it is
better to let it rage and spend its fu-
ry.
There is a great deal of nonsense
about spring cleaning; also a great
deal more fuss made over it than there
is any necessity for. Women get ex-
cited and work themselves sick; meu
get nervous and bilious, while chii-
dren usually do as they please. In a
majority of instances there is prob-
ably more harm done than good. A
clean house is a good thing, but not
good enough for what it often costs.
Whether or not the poetess whe
wrote the text for this article was suf-
fering from the effects of a recent at-
tack of the house-cleaning mania or
not, is neither here nor there, but she
knows what is right. All women
know it, too, but they haven’t the
nerve to do as well as they know.
They cannot resist the impulses that
come with the spring winds. If houses
are kept as they should be, they do not
need a special cleaning in the spring.
Besides the early spring is mot the
best time for renovating and cleaning
rooms. The air is too damp and chill
to render them specially healthy, be-
sides there is great danger of con-
He can be of little use
tracting colds which may end in pneu-
monia, pleurisy, neuralgia or rheuma-
tism; the suffering from either of
which will in no way be compensated
for by the improved appearance of the
place. Washing windows is entitled
to high rank as a cause of suffering
and death among women. There is no
other work about a house during the
winter or spring that subjects one to
more severe and dangerous drafts
than this. The vigorous exercise of
washing and polishing the inside of a
window is likely to induce perspira-
tion, while the sudden exposure to a
sweeping draft of cold air while clean-
ing ihe outside is sure to produce a
chill.
The best time to clean house is after
the days have become warm enough to
allow the windows to remain up all
day long, Let everything be taken
out of the room, the windows remov-
ed and the wind and sunlight allowed
full play. This will do more to disin-
fect and freshen a room than all the
scrubbing and dusting that can be
done with closed doors and windows.
If the room can be spared it will be
the better for remaining vacant, with
bare floor and open windows for two
or three days. Whatever else is done,
do not put carpet down on a damp
floor. Life is not so short, nor the
emergency so great, that a house
must be cleaned all in one week;
neither is the necessity for so doing
such as to justify any woman in kill-
ing herself in order to get through
with it as soon as some of her neigh-
bors.
Men should remember that house-
cleaning is a sort of mania with some
women, and that the best way to get
along is to humor them, and make
them think they are great fellows.
One thing they should kindly and
firmly insist on—that fire-places be
left open, and stoves allowed until the
cold spring rains and chilly nights
have really passed; even if it be not
until July. :
Men might take a hand in the pic-
nic; not that they are likely to do a
great deal of good in the way of clean-
ing, but for the favorable impression
they will make on their wives.
Nearly every family is now busily
engaged in house-cleaning. No won-
der Freeman Hile was overheard to
say: “The devil is to pay and noth-
ing to pay him with.”
a am Am ran
Central Pennsylvania Scenery and
Touring Motorists.
A concerted effort to direct the at-
tention of the touring motorists of the
country to scenic and historic won-
ders of Pennsylvania is about to be
made by the Pennsylvania Motor Fed-
eration and the American Automobile
Association.
The first step in the plan will be the
issue in May of a special number of
the American Motorist, the official or-
gan of the organized motorists of the
country, devoted exclusively to the ex-
‘ploitation of the Keystone Common-
wealth. The best qualified writers in
the State have been enlisted in the en-
| terprise and the result of their efforts
will undoubtedly be to stimulate in-
terest in Pennsylvania touring. The
'78 motor clubs throughout the State
that are affiliated with the P. M. F.
are all keenly interested in this ven-
ture and are giving it their active
support.
Frederick A. Godcharles, of Milton,
Pennsylvania, former Deputy Secre-
tary of State, will write descriptive
stories of the leading routes through
the State, with scenic beauties and
historic features of the State as the
background. Mr. Godcharles is one of
the outstanding exponents of Pennsyl-
vania. He is the author of “Daily
Stories of Pennsylvania,” and of
“Pennsylvanians Past and Present,”
which are syndicated to forty daily
newspapers.
Dr. John T. Farris, author of “See-
ing Pennsylvania,” and “Seeing the
Middle West,” will concentrate espe-
cially on carrying the tourist through
Pennsylvania’s historic trails.
The magazine will be illustrated
with cuts of the historic places of our
State and many views of our high-
ways taken along the different trails.
rere es,
1,000,000 Killed Daily.
The automobile takes its toll of
thousands of human lives annually,
while more than 1,000,000 animals and
birds are crushed to death daily by
motorists during the tourist season.
This is the astounding estimate made
by Prof. Dayton Stoner of the Uni-
versity of Iowa. In making a trip of
632 miles, principally through farm-
ing communities of Iowa, Professor
Stoner counted the dead bodies of 225
reptiles, birds and mammals. Within
a space of 211 miles of his journey,
made over graveled roads, 105 dead
animals were counted. Averaging the
destruction of animal life for the
3,000,000 miles of auto roads in the
United States, he computes the total
daily loss of all species of animals and
birds at over 1,000,000. The hunters
and trappers may slay their thous-
ands, but in the wanton destruction of
small animal life the death-dealing
auto is the greatest menace.—Our
Dumb Animals,
Spiders as Factory \/orkers.
Two hundred spiders are employed
yearly in the manufacture of a certain
make of engineer instrument. They
are kept busy spinning threads, which
are wound up gently as the spider
runs away. After being steamed and
stretched so that changes of climate
and temperature will not affect them,
these threads are used, in the form of
“cross hairs,” to mark the exact cen-
i ter of the object lens of each instru-
! ment.
Cnly two species of spiders, it has
been found, spin webs of the proper
size and strength. Although but five
ten-thousandths of an inch in diame-
ter, the strands have been known to
remain intact through forty years of
use.
The Track Supervisor received the
following note from cne of his track
foremen:
“I'm sending in the accident report
on Cosey’s foot when he struck it with
the spike maul. Now under ‘Re-
marks,” do you want mine or do you
want Casey's.”
Real Estate Transfers.
Harry B. Gentzel, et ux, to Uriah
G. Ammerman, tract in Penn town-
ship; $280.
Harry E. Eckenroth, et ux, to Em-
ma Houtz, et bar, tract in Sprirg
township; $800.
Della Albright, et al, to Irvin P.
Kern, tract in Penn township; $735.
Frederick K. Karter, et ux, to Da-
vid M. Bradford, tract in Centre Hall;
$1,900.
Albert Schenck, et ux, to Samuel E.
Poorman, tract in Howard township;
$3,290.
Coburn Farm Products Co., to Shef-
field Farms Co., Inc., tract in Penn
township; $1.
Hannah Lee Williams to Aikenside
Farms, tract in State College; $200.
Mary I. C. McMillen, et bar, to Ida
M. Jackson, tract in College town-
ship; $270.
W. F. Ghaner, et ux, to 0. E. Mil-
ler, et al, trustee, tract in Patton
township; $150.
William C. Martin, et ux, to Daniel
Marks, tract in Harris township; $700.
L. P. Korman to Wingard Brothers,
tract in Penn township; $260.
A. B. Kern to George Wingard, |
tract in Penn township; $480. |
L. P. Korman to Henry W. Wingard, |
et al, tract in Penn township; $190.
LeRoy K. Metzger, et ux, to Charles |
Schlow, tract in State College; $18,- |
000.
Adam F. Heckman, et ux, to S. Ed-
ward Brown, tract in Potter township; :
$4,500.
Newton C. Neidigh to Joseph C. |
Shoemaker, tract in State College;
$10,500.
E. R. Taylor, sheriff, to Olive J.
Brown, tract in State College; $6,800.
Lydia E. Irvin to Charles J. Reese,
tract in Boggs township; $1,000.
James C. Furst, Exr,, to Harry
Ward, tract in Bellefonte; $2,000.
Andrew Lytle, et ux, to Elizabeth
Witmer, tract in College township;
$65.
C. E. Gunsahus to Catherine Year-
ick, tract in Walker township; $6.50.
William D. Custard, et ux, to Mar-
garet M. Fulton, tract in State Col-
lege; $3,500.
MEDICAL.
Are You Tired, Achy---
All Run Down?
This Bellefonte Resident Tells You
How to Get Well.
Tired 2ll the time?
Lame, stiff and achy?
Tortured with nagging backache?
Knife-like twinges when you stoop
or lift?
Miserable with headaches,
spells and bladder irregulations?
All are signs of kidney sickness!
Use Doan’s Pills—a stimulant diu-
retic to the kidneys.
Here’s Bellefonte testimony.
Mrs. E. E. Ardery, Reynolds Ave.,
says: “My kidneys were weak and
out of order and my back ached. I
became run down, too. Doan’s Pills
from Runkle’s drug store have always
relieved these attacks and strengthen-
ed my back and kidneys.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Pills—the same that Mrs. Ar-
dery had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs.
Buffalo, N. Y. 70-17
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