"You see, when rugs are dusty they can be rolled, carried outside, and cleaned.

The walls can be wiped, the floors polished and that way a house is always fresh.

I can keep this shining, germ proof, and truly clean with half the work and none of the danger of heavy carpets and curtains." "I don't doubt but them is true words," said Granny Moreland earnestly.
"Work must be easier and sooner done than it was in my day, or people jest couldn't have houses the size of this or the time to gad that women have now.

From the looks of the streets of Onabasha, you wouldn't think a woman 'ud had a baby to tend, a dinner pot a-bilin', or a bakin' of bread sence the flood.

And the country is jest as bad as the city.