XVI AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS April, 1912 
Before Summer Comes 
Have Your Trees Put in Shape 
Make them a source of pleasure for your sum- 
mer and a valuable asset to your property. 
There are few trees past saving. Many a magnificent tree, 
the pride of its owner, has been saved from certain death by 
the skill of our men. The tulip tree shown here (in the Tiffany estate on Long Island) was filled 
with cement from top to bottom and given a new lease of life. 
Let us care for your trees as they should be cared for. We have the skill, the men, and the 
experience to give you perfect service. Our work is guaranteed and we inspect it every six months 
without expense to you. 
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will cost you nothing. 
Why not send to-day for one of our representatives and go over things with him? 
Send for Our Free Book 
“Making Good” in Trees 
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Foresters and Surveyors 
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New York 
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SPRING HOUSECLEANING 
By ELIZABETH DANDRIDGE 
HE last days of Winter should find one 
with well defined ideas of what will be 
necessary in the way of cleansing, re- 
newing and re-arranging in the annual 
housecleaning, which has especial import- 
ance when done in the Spring. Fall house- 
cleaning seldom assumes the scope and im- 
portance of the Spring overhauling, as one 
usually prefers that fresh paint and paper 
and accompanying renewals should come at 
a time when the soot and dust nuisance in- 
cident to Winter fires is abated. 
In these days of factories and _ shops, 
when efficient help in the kitchen is almost 
unknown and one is fortunate if they can 
get a woman to come in occasionally and 
help with the weekly sweeping and dusting, 
it is inevitable that the brunt of the house- 
cleaning must fall on the housewife. True. 
one can hire men to come in and do the 
heavy work of moving furniture, cleaning 
and laying carpets and washing windows, 
but this by no means covers the whole busi- 
ness of Spring housecleaning, and when this 
is done it is necessary to have everything in 
shape so that as much as possible may be 
done in the time one feels able to employ 
the men, for their services are by no means 
cheap—five dollars a day being as low as 
one can expect the services of two capable 
men, and often their charges much exceed 
that figure. 
The best plan then, whether the work is 
done in this way or by home talent, is to 
have everything as far advanced as possible 
before the actual work of taking down beds 
and cleaning carpets begins. Closets must 
be thoroughly cleaned and put in order be- 
fore anything else is undertaken, bureau 
drawers sorted and arranged, curtains and 
portiéres taken down and all small objects 
of art or ornaments cleaned and_ placed 
where there will be no danger of careless 
handling, soiling or breaking them, so that 
the work of settling the rooms may go for- 
ward rapidly once the carpets are laid. 
Where the work must be all or mainly 
done by the members of the family I have 
found that it simplifies matters greatly to 
undertake but one room at a time and to 
keep the remainder of the house in as good 
order as possible so as to remove as far as 
possible the feeling of discomfort that a 
disordered house always brings. 
Always aim to clean the rooms farthest 
from the kitchen first, beginning with the 
upstairs and leaving each room settled be- 
fore tearing up another. Always avoid 
cleaning a room that will have to have fur- 
niture from another room piled into it or 
much run over first, for it is little satisfac- 
tion if, when the last rooms are finished, the 
first ones already show signs of dust and 
usage. A good order is, first the bedrooms 
and upper halls and staircase, then the par- 
lors, sitting-room, lower halls, downstairs 
bedrooms (if any), dining-room and cellar, 
and lastly the kitchen. 
Always attend to the cleaning of the fur- 
nace while yet it is in use, for as soon as 
cold the soot and ashes gather dampness 
and cling to the flues and it is difficult to 
dislodge; take a mild day, when it is pos- 
sible to let the fire die down, and thoroughly 
clean flues and smoke-pipe, replacing the 
pipe and leaving the furnace ready to re- 
spond -to any call for its services in the 
changeable weather of early Spring and 
Summer. * 
In nearly all houses there will be one or 
more rooms which will need re-papering, 
and this will be done in the Spring rather 
than in the Fall. It goes without saying 
that wherever paper is to be renewed, all 
the old paper on the wall should be removed, 
