The progressive farmer and the cotton plant. [volume], April 25, 1905, Page 15, Image 15

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Tuesday. April 25. 1905.
SUNSHINE COLUMN
NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OPINTER-
NATIONAL SUNSHINE SOCIETY.
Mas. J. M. Ransieb, State President, Hen
dersonvllle. N. C.
HOUSE CLEANING.
The Right and the Wrong Way to Do
the Work Timely Suggestions by
Mrs. Ransier.
y dear Sunshiners, before we
talk about anything else to-day, let's
talk about house-cleaning- a very
prosaic topic, but one that at this
season of the year makes the world
vrry happy with the sweet comforta
ble cleanliness, resulting therefrom,
r very unhappy and uncomfortable
indeed without it.
A very old topic, probably as old as
when Mother Eve tied up some grape
vines or sage grass into a rake or
broom and went for the cozy corner
of her boudoir in her cave or cove
and gave it a general clearing and
cleaning up! It's a very new topic,
too, for I've been hearing and seeing
it too on all sides.
Now, when Sunshiners talk you
know they mean business, and do
not chatter just for the sake of chat
tering, but to improve ourselves and
our homes somehow.
Last week I had opportunity of ob
serving a house-cleaning which was
so altogether disagreeable and un
comfortable that I felt like writing
"don't" all over it. The lady was a
very cleanly lady. So far, so good.
Cleanliness is commendable. But
don't make others around you un
happy with the strenuosity of your
cleanliness. The lady I speak of had
everything from up-stairs brought
down into the lower rooms, porches
and yards. To do so they had to be
carried and twisted down and up a
narrow steep flight of stairs, uncom
fortable to climb at any time. Of
course she couldn't help the stairs be
ing hard to climb, but she could have
cleaned many of the things from up
per windows and rooms. Then when
she got to the down-stairs, chaos
reigned supreme. All the while, sho
was scolding and fussing and fret
ting and saying unkind things to her
hlers and made life not worth the
living to all around her.
Yet thi.s lady is one who is chari
table and usually means to do right.
Then why, why will she let a mere
house-cleaning make a hades of her
home and a spit-fire of herself?
Iy Sunshine sisters, don't do it.
In the first place, only one room
of a house should be attempted at a
time, and before that the closets and
wardrobes should first be cleaned,
everything in them being thoroughly
aired, sunned, and hung or packed
away again before a room is attempt
ed. '1 hen the beds, if not iron, should
have a coat of cheap varnish inside,
all over them, in the corners and un
derneath in parts that don't show;
t.ii prevents insects. And when you
ino to clean down-stairs adopt the
same plan a room at a time.
Mm, in the cleaning, pack all the
iniiK cessary things that you mean to
1as n jnto a box tQ scn(j tQ gun
.Make it a generous one. It
will relieve your own house and help
make comfortable some one who
ha- hss.
TIin lady I wrote of has her house
"vr-r-ruu with articles that require
uting and care, and are not really
Pieces of art or ornament, but she is
always making life a burden to her
I i Tby her complaints of the
rk I suggested to her that they
must require much time and work;
why nut them away if they are only
kept as souvenirs; or if desired for
ornament, put them in a cabinet, un
derclass, where they can have an oc
casional cleaning.
Don't, my dear sisters, litter your
house with unnecessary things. A
few well-chosen ornaments and pic
tures help to beautify your house;
but some one else's house has no or
naments. If yours is crowded, pass
them on.
Miss Hannah W. sends the fol
lowing: The Sheaf of Richest Grain.
He saw the ripe wheat waiting
All golden in the sun.
And strong and stalwart reapers
Went by him, one by one.
"Oh, could I reap in harvest 1"
. His heart made bitter cry;
"I can do nothing, nothing,
So weak, alas ! am I."
At eve a fainting traveler
Sank down beside his door
A cup of cool, sweet water
To quench his thirst he bore,
And when, refresh'd and strengthen
ed The traveler went his way,
Upon the poor man's threshold
A golden wheat sheaf lay.
When came the Lord of harvest,
He cried: "O Master kind I
One sheaf have I to offer
And that I did not bind;
I gave a cup of water
To one athirst, and he
Left at my door in going
The sheaf I offer thee."
Then said the Lord of harvest,
"Well pleased with this am I;
One of my angels left it
With thee as he passed by.
Thou mayest not join the reapers
Upon the harvest plain,
But whoso helps a brother
Binds sheaves of richest grain."
No more silver dollars are to be
coined in this . country unless Con
gress at some time authorizes the
resumption of coinage and the pur
chase of silver bullion for that pur
pose. The last of the silver bullion
purchased under the Act of 1878, for
the resumption of silver coinage, has
been put into silver dollars. There
is an exception of 1,000,000 ounces
that is being kept for subsidiary
coinage and in a few months this
will be used up and in the future
the treasury must buy silver bullion
for subsidiary coinage purposes.
Under the Bland-Allison act, it is
stated by George E. Roberts, director
of the mint, the total coinage of
silver dollars has been $570,272,610.
This includes about $5,000,000 of
trade dollars that were recoined. The
total coinage represents about the
total value of the bullion that was
purchased.
No
good
sells
a
chim-
grocer
lamp
ney without
Macbeth on it
You need to know how to manage yom
lamps to have comfort with them at small cost.
Better read my Index ; I send it free.
Macbeth, Pittsburgh.
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