Three short courses in home making

22 THKEE SHORT COURSES IN HOME MAKING. room and then swept into the dust pan. The dust should be burned up; for it may contain disease germs. The broom should be cleaned after using. Small rugs should be cleaned out of doors. They should be swept, beaten, and reswept, then rolled until ready to put on the floor. If the rug is a large one and can not be removed, it should be wiped over with a damp cloth, rolled up, and the under side of the rug and the floor beneath it wiped up. After the room has been cleaned, the windows should be arranged so that a supply of fresh, clean air can come constantly into the room. This is essential to every room in the house if perfect health is to be maintained. PRELIMINARY PLAN. It will be well to have Lesson IX given hi one of the homes some day after school hours, if possible. If that can not be arranged, the schoolroom can be utilized as the place for practice. METHOD OF WORK. Devote Lesson VIII to a discussion of the methods of cleaning and to various short tasks about the schoolroom. In Lesson IX have the girls go through the entire process of cleaning a room. Assign some portion of the task to each one of the girls so that all of them can take part in the work. Supervise the work carefully, assign home practice in the cleaning of rooms, and have each girl clean a room at home once a week for a month LESSON X. CARE OF THE BEDROOM. SUBJECT MATTER. As soon as one is dressed in the morning, the windows in the bed- room should be opened to air the room and the bedclothes should be separated and put on chairs before the window to air. The slops should be emptied and the chamber washed with cold water, using a special cloth. The bowl should be washed in warm, soapy water, which should then be poured into the chamber and used for washing it. The toilet articles should be washed, then the bowl rinsed and wiped dry. The slop jar should be washed out thoroughly, and fre- quently the slop jar and the chamber should be washed out with chloride of lime or some other disinfectant. The pitcher should be filled with fresh water and all articles' arranged neatly on the wash- stand. If towels are soiled, clean ones should be supplied. The bed should be made carefully, the mattress turned, the first sheet tucked under the mattress all around, and the other covers tucked in at the bottom and two sides of the bed. The bed should be kept free from wrinkles and smooth in appearance. The pillows should SIN CABE OP Till- BOM 23 be well shaken and arranged at the head of the hod. The floor should be brushed u|>, the furniture dusted, and everything |>ut m place. The windows should be left partly opened so that the bed- room i- well aired. A sufficient amount of Fresh air is absolutely Bntial in a bedroom, ami it is important that the room be well aired out during 'In- day ami left with windows opeo at. night. When the room is t<> be thoroughly cleaned, the frame of the bed should he dusted and the bed made up. The window >hades should lie dusted and rolled up. Cur' mould hi- well shaken and cov- ered if one has a dust sheet. All small articles mi the bureau, table, and shelf should he placed on the bed and the whole covered with a sheet. Tables, chairs, and any other movable pit hould be