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Sweeping Day

UTENSILS FOR SWEEPING-DUST AND DUSTING-HARD-WOOD FLOORS-RUGS-MATTING-OILCLOTH AND LINOLEUM One day in the week, usually Friday, is set apart as sweeping day. At the top of the house, in the attic stairway, keep cleaning rags, brush, soap, dusters, and broom. Have a wastebasket in each of the rooms to receive bits of paper, rags, lint, burnt matches, and the like. Commence at the top of the house and clean each room as you go. Take up the dust from each room and put it in a tin bucket or other deep receptacle so that it will not be blown about. Never sweep the dirt from one room to another, and thence down the stairway to the front hall. This method covers the door lintels, window casings, and high shelves with a thick coating of dust which is blown about the room with every passing breeze.