But who wishes to be cleaning all the time?
Who wishes to be always dusting?
Indeed, at the best, we are constantly with broom, brush, or besom in hand; but the men will not perceive it, and we receive no credit for our tidiness.

What is to be done, then?
Evidently there is nothing better than a "demonstration," as the politicians say--a demonstration that may be felt; a mass-meeting of brooms, buckets, brushes, paint-pots, white-wash pails, chairs overturned, tubs, coal-skuttles, dust-pans, char-women, and all other possible disagreeables, all at once summoned, and each as much as possible in others' way.

In this there is some satisfaction.

It looks like _business_.

It seems as if you were doing something.