Show I i How to Dust a Boom I The feather duster is an abomination writes Christiania Terhune Herrick in a recent number of The Housewife In the l lands of a careless housemaid the feather duster is flitted among the furniture up about the picture frames down amid the chain rungs into nooks and corners scattering the dust everywhere brushing the impalpable powder from onejspot and Driving it into another until when the maid retires from her labors all the dustin dust-in the room has changed its place while but little Of > it has been permanently removed re-moved There should boa method in ducting and it should be closely followed First of all the carpet should bo brushed A thorough sweeping may not be oessary every day but in most living rooms there is daily need of a < jarpot sweeper cr dust pan and brash qflcn of all three The carpet sweeper is admirable for taking up the dirt in tho middle mid-dle of tKb room hut it is practically useless injtho corners Every housekeeper should kayo one of the dust pans that can be hclu in place by the foot The gain comfort is immeasurable to tho woman who has been accustomed to bend herself double when she wished to brush up the fluff that she had gathered together i with her broom The highest places of the room should next receive attention the cornices curtain cur-tain poles etc A Turks head brush is invaluable in-valuable pere and is easily improvised by tying a cloth or towel around a feather duster and attaching this to the end of a pole long enough to enable one to touch the oeiling with the tenth I For the other parts of the room a cloth must be used Old silk handkerchiefs make excellent dusters but even they1 are not superior to thoso of cheese cloth and these should cot be too large A duster a yard longby half a yard wide is big enough for all ordinary purposes Cheese cloth is so cheap that there is no reason why every family should not be provided with a generous gen-erous supply of dusters They must be hemmed of course and may be finished with a pretty feather stitching of bright marking cotton Such dusters will go into all the nooks and corners cor-ners gathering the dust and retaining it They should be shaken after using and washed frequently It is tedious business dusting the modern parlor Filled with brio abrac adorned with hangings over doors windows and mantles ornamented with bits of drapery flung over easels and picture frames it presents a discouraging aspect to the busy housewife One must pay for having pretty and artistic surroundings but as long as the dustgathering agencies are kept out of sleepingrooms little harm is done Everything Every-thing should be moved in dusting There should be no dusty rims left around ornaments orna-ments to show how the cloth skimmed around them without touching them Such carelessness should be watched for in the housemaId whose study often is to slight skillfully instead of to perform thoroughly her task For dusting tufted furniture nothing is better than an ordinary Louso painting brush Thebristles go into every crevice and fold of the revering and fray the ma tonal less than do the straws of a whiskbroom whisk-broom |