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Show Spring arrives; it's housecleaning time and time to watch your heart of lowering and lifting not your back muscles. If you like working to the sound of music, make it a suitable rhythm for your special spec-ial pace. Most important, perhaps, is the matter of rest and relaxation. relax-ation. Don't work till you're ready to drop. You should run the house not vice versa. This is one of a series of health columns about your heart, prepared by the Utah Heart Association and published pub-lished as a public sendee. When early flowers begin to bloom, spring cleaning is not very far behind. The very thought makes many a woman wish she had an army of people peo-ple working for her. That's precisely what the Heart Association As-sociation mobilized to save the homemaker with heart disease from squandering all her energies en-ergies on housework, leaving her too tired for family fun. Organize your work to make the most of your time and energy. en-ergy. But organize it according accord-ing to your own pace and personal per-sonal inclinations. Don't force yourself to follow the pattern set by Aunt Lil or your moth er-in-law it may not suit you at all. And you'd just get frustrated, angry and more quickly fatigued. Have the right tools for the job: longhandled brooms and dustpans can save a lot of backbending, for example. When possible, have extra sets of cleaning materials (pails, soaps, cleaning rags and sponges) spon-ges) so that one can be kept whereever it is to be used, upstairs or downstairs. Alternately, collect all your equipment in one trip to the utility closet and instead of lugging it from room to room, load everything onto a free-wheelig free-wheelig cart your cleaning caddy. Use all the resources at hand. For example, assign children chores within their capacity. ca-pacity. Even 5 and 6 yead-olds can be helpful. Some women take a two-fisted two-fisted approach to dusting and polishing a dust mitt or rag in each hand. They feel they can cover twice the territory in half the time. You might see if this will work for you. When you pick up or lift objects, ob-jects, bend your knees. Let your leg muscles do the work |
