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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



SCHOOL SANITATION. 



Miss Stanley. 



(Louise Stanley, Department of Home Economics, University of Missouri.) 



Why do we want our schoolrooms clean? 



Perhaps you think it makes little difference. 



/ ^^■■l^ \ You can study quite as well and learn just 



^H^^^^Bl \ as much whether the room is clean or dirty. 



:|W^^^^^^B \ Suppose you agree to try it the clean way 



^^ 'T^Km \ this winter and see whether or not it makes 



'•' any difference. See if you are not able to 



do more work, keep in better health, and 



study and learn more than ever before. How 



many of you would like to try it? 



The first thing for you to do then will 

 be to get "cleaned up." Can you not set 

 aside a "clean-up day" or a "good-health 

 day" — they really mean the same — when you can, all come and see 

 to it that everything in and about the schoolroom is thoroughly 

 cleaned? How many of you are willing to help and think you can 

 bring from home the necessary cleaning materials? You must 

 allow sufficient time before this day so you can plan all the work 

 systematically and discuss just what needs to be done. 



What is meant by cleaning systematically, anyhow? It means 

 considering what there is to be done, listing and planning the order 

 of work so that each duty will fit into the next, and so that the 

 performance of any one duty will not interfere with what has gone 

 before and what is to come after. This is what the housekeeper 

 does when she plans her work for the day or the week. Each duty 

 is done at the most economical time and in the most economical 

 way. Thus she is enabled to accomplish the most in the least time. 

 Now let us stop and think of the different things which must 

 be done in order to put your room in order. The floors, the walls 

 and ceiling, furniture, stoves and windows all need attention. We 

 must decide what is to be the order of this work and how each 

 operation is to be done. 



Why remove the furniture first? 



When should the furniture be cleaned if left in the room? 

 Why clean the ceiling before the walls? 



What should be the last portion of the room to be cleaned 

 before returning the furniture to the room ? 



