A carpet sweeper or a vacuum cleaner should be used in the daily cleaning of carpets and rugs. A vacuum cleaner operated by hand or electric power removes practically all the dust and dirt from carpets and rugs in a dustless manner.
PLAN No. 829. BASKET BOARDERS
During the war people have been thrown upon their own resources and many methods of making a living have been attempted. Many suggestions have been given by the United States Department of Agriculture as to plans which would be feasible for making a living.
One suggestion is a plan followed by a New York woman. She had a small income but it was not sufficient to care for herself and small child. She arranged to board and room 15 girls and boys from the farm. And this board and room was paid with baskets of provisions from the farm from each of the children’s parents.
She conducted her home on a dormitory plan of a college. Each of the students took care of their own rooms and spent their week ends with their parents at which time their washing was taken along or sent to the city laundry at the expense of the student.
This idea has wonderful possibilities. There are thousands of boys and girls from the farms that cannot go to High School because of the lack of ready cash. But if a woman who can furnish the best of references will charge them $10 a month and a weekly basket of provisions from their farms it would be possible for them to have a High School or College education. With fifteen children this would mean an income of $150 a month and the lady could figure out what kind of provisions from week to week she needed and have the boys and girls regulate their baskets accordingly. If it was not practical for the boys and girls to return to the farms to bring baskets in person the baskets could easily be sent in by parcel post.
Any woman who has a family and is unable to go out to work can make a good income in this way as well as do a great favor to the boy and girl on the farm.
This is a good way for thousands of town and city families to escape the high cost of living and take from the farmer what he has to pay with—i. e., food for the education of his children.
OPPORTUNITIES IN PUBLIC OFFICE
There are many opportunities in public office in every city, and county in the United States.