DUST AND ITS DANGERS. 79 



briefest way to many devices in the lore of 

 the enlightened housekeeper for cleaning of 

 carpeted floors without raising clouds of dust 

 which seem more objectionable the more we 

 know about them. Such practices as the sprink- 

 ling of carpets with scraps of wet newspaper, 

 or moist tea-leaves, or other substances which 

 keep down the dust : the use of some of the 

 more perfect forms of carpet-sweepers, vacuum 

 cleaners, etc., may be considered in solving 

 the problem of clean living places in towns. 



The writer can perhaps imagine the fine 

 scorn with which his meek suggestions in this 

 direction may be met by the experienced 

 housekeeper, and indeed makes no virtue of 

 insisting upon method so long as the removal, 

 and not the simple redistribution of the dust, 

 be the end accomplished. 



In houses and larger buildings which are 

 supplied with a system of forced ventilation, or 

 wherever the ventilation-draught is strong 

 enough, a great deal may be accomplished in 

 the way of keeping the dust out of the buildings 

 by the use of cheese-cloth or thin cotton batting 

 screens placed across the air currents near the 

 entrance of the ventilation-shafts. 



