| Attics and basements are the rarest place in our | | | | be¬cause you will then have more light for |
| home which we visit. By the time of cleaning, attics | | | | sorting and stacking, while using your vacuum brushes |
| and basements can be very tough to clean. Here are | | | | to devour the dust. |
| some tips which might be useful for you. | | | | JUNK IS A FIRE HAZARD. If you have cartons |
| A THOROUGH TREATMENT once or twice a year is | | | | handy, sort it out with the next church rummage sale |
| needed for attics and basements to be put in order, | | | | in mind and get rid of all the worthless stuff you will |
| swept, and dusted. This is the time to discard the | | | | never get around to using. Be utterly ruthless in this, |
| accumulation of worth¬less stuff that tends to | | | | otherwise things will keep moving down from the |
| move toward the opposite poles of the house. There | | | | attic to litter the rest of the house. Store what you |
| is a certain glamour to attics, especially old cluttered | | | | want to keep, carefully, in cardboard boxes and, if |
| ones, with their lure of hidden treasure, rare stamps, | | | | you have woolens stored in chest or trunk, examine |
| papers, or antiques. Let's ascend-up steps or | | | | them for moth damage and make sure that they are |
| ladder-taking the vacuum cleaner along. | | | | well pro¬tected with mothballs or para crystals. |
| THE ATTIC. This is like a moon station, remote and | | | | Directions will be on the box or tin of the insect |
| weird; it suffers great extremes of climate, frigid cold | | | | assassinator you select. |
| in the winter and stifling heat during the summer | | | | CLUTTER ON THE STAIRS. When you finish, |
| months. Dust filters down from it as from a distant | | | | descend carefully, making sure that there is nothing |
| star to dim the floors and furniture below. Strange | | | | left on the stair¬way to constitute a safety |
| objects infest it. Though seldom visited, it seems to | | | | hazard. If yours was a winter ascent, you may be |
| have a life of its own because the things you | | | | wondering about providing insulation up there. If |
| remem¬ber distinctly storing in one place will | | | | summer, you could be thinking of the advantages of |
| frequently be found in another, or strewn all over the | | | | an attic ventilating fan. But probably you visited the |
| floor. This would be the work of the young, who | | | | upper reaches of your house in the spring or fall. In |
| infiltrate a house everywhere. | | | | the Pluto-ish region under the house, temperatures |
| THE MAJOR PROBLEM is to rout the dust and | | | | are more equable than in the attic. If summer has |
| achieve order. Here is where you really need your | | | | begun it is really nice and cool. |
| vacuum cleaner, but is there a floor outlet up there? | | | | From this article we have learned some useful tips on |
| If not, you can use an extension. In this case an | | | | cleaning the basements. Swept and dust the attics |
| ordinary one will do. Or you can have your vacuum | | | | and basements or vacuum cleaned at least twice a |
| cleaner man make one for you to match the cord | | | | year. Clean the window first is the good idea. Get rid |
| you have. (If you do not have a vacuum cleaner, | | | | of the junks to give more space for storage of |
| brushes and brooms will do.) | | | | other things which you don't use anymore. |
| CLEANING THE WINDOWS FIRST is a good idea | | | | |