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VOL. 10.
FEBRUARY 21, 1908.
NO. 35
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Valuable Hints for Both Young
The following good advice was pub
lished in the Boys' Industrial School
Journal:
When you sweep a room, raise as little
duet ae possible, because this dust when
hreathed irritates the nose and throat
and may set up catarrh. Some of the
dust breathed industy air reaches the
lungs, making parts of them black and
hard and useless.
If the dust in the air you breathe con
tains the germs of consumption-tubercle
bacilli which have come from 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 sneezing to
hold a handkerchief or the hand over the
nose and mouth so as not to scatter 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 great dust in
sweeping, use moist sawdust on bare
floors, When the room is carpeted,
moisten a newspaper and tear it into
small scraps and scatter them upon thn
floor when you begin 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 saw
dust does on the bare floors. Do not
havepaper or sawdust dripping, only
moist, In dusting a room do not use a
feather duster, because this does not re
move the dust from the room,but only
brushes it into the air go that you
breathe it in, or settles down; then you
have to do the work over again,
Use soft, dry cloths to dust with, and
shake them frequently out of the win
dow, or use slightly moistened clotliR
and rinse them out in water when you
have finished. In this way you get the.
dust out of the room.
In cleaning rooms you should remem
ber that the duet settles upon the floor
as well as on the furniture, and is stir
red into the air we breathe by walking
across the floor. You can easily remove
all this in rooms which have barp floors,
in houses, stores, shops, schoolroom, 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. wet.