Health and Temperance

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 7, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 26.

Health and Temperance.

CLEAN OUT YOUR CELLARS.

TAKE one day down cellar to throw out and carry away all dirt, rotten wood, decaying vegetables, and other accumulations that have gathered there; brush down the cobwebs, and with a bucket of lime give the ceiling a good coating of whitewash. No matter if you don't understand the business; no matter if you have not got a whitewash brush; take an old broom that the good wife has worn out and spread it on thick and strong. It will sweeten up the air in the cellar, the parlor, and the bed-chambers (if your cellar is like ordinary farmhouse cellars), and it may save your family from the affliction of fevers, diphtheria, and doctors.—Boston Journal.