| Show cleanliness T is Is MI theme gneme of holland this 1 his is is one in in i series series of art cles by 31 miss bephine oe phine dames daines on n her trip to holl hoi and anil 1 list ast summer scrub and clean and scrub sonic bome more moio yes you have heard that tile the dutch people kiep kecy everything sp c and span genera Genci ally y speaking the truth it all end with tile the house work either after other cleaning is is done you ou w will ill see them don their big yellow or 01 black wooden shoes and continue the work outside or in in the barn it took a little while hile forme to get accustomed to cleaning the dutch way because it was a little different but mrs mih van ilomin was a good teacher as she was interested in te rested in my making less for foi liei her I 1 soon ie lined learned tile the daily tasks of setting the table doing dishes boiling tile the milk the cream and tile the baby s fat foi formula mula clean my loom vacuum the babas wash and the daily duly cleaning in in the other looms meals followed a certain and I 1 found my task in in it windows were washed every friday silver silverware waie cleaned on oil wednesday the washing and ironing was done one every other monday and tuesday just to mention a few of tile the jobs the posch fam ilys housework house housew orli was not quitu quite so much ritual as the other home we e girls gills there do much work because frequently we were going some place mrs posch lad had lir hi pi plan in of work and the hired kill girl did must awit of it dutch housewives of the middle and upper class still have lined hired girls or 01 servants sei as labor laboi is is still i till very chop cheap they do lack the mod ern ein c conveniences 0 and time and a bor saving savins devices that we have hoN hannever Never both mi air van an hoorn and mis the th housewives where I 1 lived had old hoover electric vacuum cleaners ele iners mrs mis van hoorn lad had an old old washing machine the rho tul tub part pait was wooden there WT wat an old looking motor on it that had to bo be cranked clanked to start stait tile die inefficient wringer lid did not run lun automatically but had to lie be turned by hand both housewives had electric il lions but these few items ended then list of modern conveniences if the americans Amen cans dont have a contraption to do the job a little easier they soon invent something om uni ething I 1 had bad my ideas of how I 1 would like to have changed mrs van Ilo hogins orns kitchen and whole house for that matter to make it more moie convenient it seemed that the simple things in in housekeeping that could have been improved without cost ceic elc not even thought of people had been ke keeping house in in those homes for hundreds hu of vears cars in the same game way they may mav as well weil continue was the feeling that I 1 got in working with the dutch women I 1 cant to con confirm fi the idea that the dutch keep very clean homes and barns ill still take the ordinary way uy of doing my own clean cleaning inq without the lie hired help but with th the 1 e electric al a ances and handy gadgets |
