EXERCISES
1. What are the reasons for keeping an inventory of household goods?
2. How should winter garments be cared for in summer?
3. Obtain a price list and estimate the cost of an equipment of brooms and cleansing materials.
4. What are the advantages of a vacuum cleaner over a broom?
5. What are the best methods of removing dust? Of cleaning paint and woodwork and glass?
6. How are metals cleaned?
7. What are the most important points in caring for a bedroom?
8. What is the order of work in a thorough cleaning of a room, and why?
9. How should plumbing be cleaned?
10. Is the old-fashioned order of work the best now—Monday, washing; Tuesday, ironing; Wednesday, mending; Thursday and Friday, cleaning; and Saturday, baking?
11. How may all the family help to some extent in household work?
12. Can you plan the best order of work for a day for the home worker who has no help but some one to wash and iron?
13. What are the dangers from different household insects?
14. If a kerosene lamp suddenly blazes up, what should you do?
15. What is the principle involved in putting out a fire?
16. What are some of the simple methods of fire prevention?
17. What simple repairing can be done by members of the family?