WAR ON DUST

Shannon News, 4 December 1928, Page 4

WAR ON DUST

The housewife will do well to consider how modern science will assist by providing labour-saving devices for her use in the war she wages daily against dirt and dust. First of all, in the arrangement and furnishing of her house she tfill do well to select materials for wall and floor coverings that are easily kept clean. The wood and metal work should bo of a character that does not easily soil or tarnish. In coping satisfactorily with housework, much labour is eliminated by banishing unnecessary metal fittings, ornaments, stair-rods, etc., and by using stainless, steel cr unt-arnishablo' iWial for such articles In the same way the use oc a tile kerb, or one of stainless steel, saves unnecessary polishings.- It the household necessitates the retention of brass fenders, etc., then the discreet housewife will pro vide herself with, a metal polish that gives a good lustre in return for a minimum polishing effort, or, better still, she will lacquer her fenders, etc-, and do away with llic need for polishing.