DIRT AND DUST. 69 



I firmly believe that all that is required to render 

 the buildings fresh and clean, is to wash them. If on 

 the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee, every house- 

 holder in London had set-to to paint and wash his 

 house, London would have assumed an appearance 

 that would have not only gladdened the hearts of all 

 lovers of cleanliness and cheerfulness, but would have 

 provided such an extraordinary and unaccustomed 

 spectacle, as would never have been forgotten during 

 the lifetime of those who beheld this singular 

 transformation. 



