Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-04-22 | Page 4 | Feather Duster is Doomed to Go

FEATHER DUSTER IS DOOMED TO GO " The feather duster Is doomed. The recruits re-cruits in the warfare against consumption consump-tion have taken up arms against it, and like the old oaken bucket so dear to our childhood, it is to be known to the next generation only in song and story. A representative of a committee of physicians physi-cians and others who are fighting against tuberculosis in New York, recently said: "We hear a good deal nowadays about street dust and soft coal as nuisances and aa dangerous to the public health, but we are apt to forget that right in our own homes we often have a danger that is perhaps Just aa great as either of these. "Methods of cleaning are still in vogue that have come down to us from the days when the wrath of God waa held responsible for a disease that by the ignorance ig-norance of man was fostered behind closed windows and' spread with housewifely house-wifely Industry by the feather duster. These old-fashioned ways are a real menace to health, and so those mere men who have organized the anti-tuberculosis movement have come out with the public pub-lic announcement about sweeping and dusting." When you sweep a room raise as little lit-tle dust as possible, because this dust, when breathed, irritates the nose and throat, and may set up catarrh. Some of the dust breathed in dusty air reaches the lungs, making parts of them black and hard and useless. If the dust in the air you breathe contains con-tains the germs of consumption tubercle bacilli which have come from consumptives consump-tives spitting on the floors, you run the risk of getting consumption yourself. If consumptives use proper spit cups and are careful in coughing or sneeslng to hold a handkerchief or the hand over the nose and mouth so as not to scatter spittle spit-tle about in the air, the risk of getting the disease by living in the same rooms is mostly removed. To prevent making a gTeat dust in sweeping, use moist sawdust on bare floors. 'When the room is carpeted, moisten mois-ten a newspaper and tear it Into small scraps and scatter upon the carpet whese you loegin sweeping. As you sweep brush the papers along by the broom and they will catch most of the dust and hold it fast. Just as the sawdust does on bare floors. Do not have either the paper or the sawdust dripping wet, only moist. In dusting a room do not use a feather diiitter. because this does not remove the dust from the room but only brushes it into the air so that you breathe it in; or it settles down and then you have to do the work over again. , Use soft, dry cloths to dust with and shake them frequently out of the window, or use slightly moistened cloths and rinse them out in water when you have finished. fin-ished. In this way you get the dust out "of the room. In cleaning rooms you should remember remem-ber that dust settles upon the floors as well as on the furniture, and is stirred into the air we breathe by walking across the floors. You can easily, remove all this dust in rooms which have-bare floors, ia houses, stores, shops, school .rooms, etc., after the dust has settled, by passing over the floor a mop which has been wrung out so as to be only moist, not dripping wet