Home from the Holiday

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 25

Home from the Holiday

Autumn Cleaning by Electricity

‘THERE'S no place like home," and a poor. one it must surely be that does not strike some note of welcome on our return, no matter how far we have travelled ‘since we left it, how hectic the time we have enjoyed. It looks just the same, doesn’t it, but after the first feeling of relief at finding ourselves here again, are we sure that we are just the same? Haven’t we perhaps: progressed a little further, assimilated a few new ideas; don’t we feel that we should like some things just a little different, and to do ‘them in a newer, more progressive, less laborious way? Well, now is the time to set about it. Let’s have a thorough good autumn-cleaning and get everything just as we would like it, before we settle in for the winter. It is a bit irksome, taking up all the old duties again, and we don’t want to undo all the good our holiday has accomplished. or: forfeit all our leisure; then we need not, for we can do it the only proper, the electrical, way. AN electric vacuum cleaner will save our time, our strength and energy and our money. Further, probably for the first time in our lives, we shall be able to rejoice in absolute cleanliness, to feel that actually all dirt has ~Reen removed from our home. -No need now to take up the heavy; ‘carpets, to move and lug about the cumbersome furniture. We can clean even more thoroughly than heretofore while carpets remain on the floor, in a fraction of the time, and without raising any dust. Curtains. too, can be ¢leane’ where they hang, absolutely all dust. being removed, without risk of spoiling delicate colours and texture by laundering. The best models have attachments for cleaning stair-carpets also without removing them, for air-cleaning mat tresses, reaching unde: furniture with ot even lifting the cleaner, by mean: ° of a swivel base, behind radiators. cleaning clothes. books, fluffing up pillows and eiderdown quilts: and some types have miniature models that can be whisked about from place to place as easily as a duster. These are supplied with or without the larger cleaner, are ideal for upholstery and dusting ‘purposes, and unequalled for cleaning the upholstery of ears. They are light to handle. operate with a turn of the wrist. and a child can, and will delight to. use them. The polishing attachments will actually apply the polish, get our floors into perfect condition and keep them glisteningly smooth and _ bright. No longer need. we stoop. kneel, rub or even soil our hands to achieve perfectly polished floors. A NOTHER invaluable device, a hoon ~ at any time, but especially in times of sickness. is that which enables tito spray our rooms with a refreshing or disinfecting fluid or powder for the purpose of exterminating flies, ete. Th electric vacnum cleaner does away with the necessity fora step-lad-der-the cause of so many distressing

accidents-for dusters; brooms, carpetbeaters, dustpans and brushes; prolongs the life of carpets, rugs, curtains and upholstery, and of the family itself, by ensuring absolute and positive cleanliness not only of open spaces and things that show, but of all nooks and erannies. All the dust and dirt in the average home can be collected ut the cost of two units of electricity per week. and the cleaners themselves ure supplied on time payments that amount to less than that of hired help for cleaning purposes, besides being always available. They act as guardians of the family health by entirely removing the germs of disease contained in all dust and dirt. They are money-savers, inasmuch as they eliminate carpet-cleaning bills, bills for cleaning and laundering draperiss, upholstery soiled by dust distributed by brooms and dusters, decorator’s bills due to the same cause. On the other hand, they enable us to have a clean, sanitary home, increased leisure, strength and health; spring-cleanliness all the year round.