IN THE KITCHEN | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1900

IN THE KITCHEN.

Good Housekeeping.

CLEANLINESS, cleanliness, and still cleanliness, is the watchword, above all times in midsummer. Every closet, corner, receptacle, sink, dish, and cloth ought to be kept immaculate. Constant must be the warfare against dust, débris, dirt, and insects. In these days everything is alive, and much of that life, spite of the Hindoo belief, is inimical to human welfare. One has only to read of the wonderfully beneficent effort of the sanitation following cleanliness effected under General Wood in Cuba, to comprehend the necessity of this warfare against fertile and deadly microbes.

In the homes of women of intelligence and accomplishments, such neglect of the laws of health as sends the cold chills over one to think about has been too frequently seen—receptacles and closets both odious and odorous, decaying food by the side of milk and butter, soiled towels around the bread, filthy sinks and dishcloths, and a general air of neglect, which would be pardonable only among Hottentots. And these things in the households of good women, philanthropists, and even graduates of colleges! Too much occupied are they with their guilds, their music, with social life, to give attention to details. In one case, when typhoid fever invaded the household, to which two members fell victims, the nurse found no less than half a dozen fetid damp cloths in and near the sink.