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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1948)
PACE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Spring House Cleanin' By FRANK TRirr No matter how much Industry one mliiht care to Instill Into his chll dren. no matter how rugged his own boyhood, he would be a mean father who would wish back the carpet etretcher and the old carpet flail. Soring house cleaning in the man Mr of the 90s Ultra status of a ' museum piece to the modern house keeper: In fact few of the most Im maculate among them have much notion of the speck-hunt their grandmothers made of It. Many who hover around 60 will know whereof I speak, can check ' my veracity, so I must exaggerate with caution. This 1 to be the ' honest truth about spring house cleaning as I knew It. I'll go to court before ..'trading a word. There were only three in our family Just pop and mom and me. My father could cut high capers with tools, could repair or ouua '. anything. But he would have moved , alone to Pat Walsh's railroaders' ho tel, or 8teve Blyley's, before h e would have raised a ringer with house cleaning. So I was mother's little helper, even to high school days, when her little helper weighed 180. Come spring I envied pop's house hold philosophy. But mom had the Indian sign on me and together we housecleaned. It started as soon as the frost was out of the ground and warm sun peeked through. Everything went out of every room, and I mean everything. Tack ed down carpet came up. The pine floors were scrubbed on hands and knees. The woodwork and windows were washed, the shades unrolled, cleaned and maybe turned. The bed steads were taken apart, heaven knows why; every coll of the springs was wiped off. The mattresses went out on the grass, were pounded with beaters and turned over and over gain. Blankets and washable winter bedding went through the old Arm strong WRAhrr 25 minutes of back ache to every washerful. The cur tains and portieres got theirs and down came the curtain poles and fixture too one point upon which mom and I vociferously disagreed. But It was the carpets which made life lust not worth living and took all the Joy out of spring. Today's cliff dwellers dont' know any metre about carpeta than a rabblt.'we knew less about finished floor and : mgs. i Carpet covered every flooy except I ine Kiicnen. we naa no oaifuoon , Just a chummy two holes'. Carpets i were nailed each four lftches close . up to uie oase ooam. rfom coming ' p ana down, the iiofjr was so oer ," t orated around the eases that It : looked like a sold out punch board. . . . . t cauocku "rom weir secure location floor cover Jnra went to the :plothes line and j0t the daylights khaled out of J&em. My mother's i' lotion was thjft no carpet was clean i mm Deaien.-fh a brisk wind for one I alf day,Jhen spread on the grass fcfaTiwept both Bides. This beating Job couldn't be shirked, 'cause no matter where In the house mom worked she could tell when I stop- ped beating. Then they all had to go back down and with the same dull and twisted carpet tacks, which were supposed to last at least three ex tractions. Most of our carpets were cheap Ingrain which had to be stretched to lay flat. The stretcher waa a vicious gad get, an enemy of carpets and of all who used them. Prongs In a board, upon which you knelt, caught the carpet while you used a hooked-on lever to stretch the edge to the wall so you could tack It. Carpets tore, except the choice Brussels In the parlor, fingers bled, mothers raved and sons learned to curse, at least under their breath. T. . stair carpet also was master creation of the devil. Newspapers or straw went under the carpel. I guess that's how news papers got going to be put under carpet and on pantry shelves. Alter the part they played in my young life as a carpet layer, why I went in the newspaper business Is beyond me. Just to get even I guess. Once when I handled a mall order advertising account the firm got an order from a 15-year-old newspaper ad. They're all keyed, yo know. I wrote the customer to learn how come. What do you think she re plied? She found the ad In a paper un der a carpet in an old country place which she bought to remodel We sold her a bill of goods. Now let's hear radio tell one. Hager tarry Snyder returned Sunday from Salem where he visited his cousins, Kent and Thlrza Ooeck ner and reports a fine visit there. Mrs. Robert Mozlngo was on the Sick list Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Herman have gone on a vacation trip. The Junior, sophomore and fresh man classes of Henley high school re presenting three one-act plays t the Henley gym April 20, Tues day, starting at S p. m. The farmers around here are be ginning to get their land ready for seeding. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hendrlckson entertained at a dinner at their home here Sunday. The following were guests, Mr. and Mrs. R. j. Bretches, Mr. and Mrs. William Cuslck, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Fow ler, Mrs. Collins, Mr. Shook, Ernest Pitt, Dale Hendrlckson, Darlene nd Orvllle Pitts, Mllly Roberts, Mrs. Jul! Ledbetter and Edna Keeler. Ouy Barton visited at Merrill over the week-end. Best wishes to Barbara Reeder, Who was recently married to Hugh Btapleton of Eugene. Mr. McDonalds father from Portland Is visiting here. Mrs. O'Reilly and Mrs. R. Mo alngo are having fine luck with their baby chicks which they pur chased some time ago. Several from this community at tend the show, "Sitting Pretty," that was featured at Klamath Falls theatre this past week. Famous for Diamonds . That's Ricky s . . . r FREE TEA SETS! ! K I ( y MA IK MA 3 mm mm v NATIONWIDE Silver Week April 20th-May I For These Occasions RICKYS OFFER FREE! With Each DIAMOND PURCHASED .'.I!fi'.aVeil.;!liiAiit FOR TEN DAYS! 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