CHAPTER V

A PIPE DREAM

As soon as you get accustomed to the intricacies of one method of doing anything to-day, something new crops up. This is probably more true in the realm of housekeeping than in any other except that of military science. You have no sooner mastered the points of what not to do and what you should do with portable vacuum cleaners than up comes the stationary vacuum cleaner and you have to know about it, too. And so this article after one on the portable cleaner. If you forget the technicalities see