Bits of special cleaning like polishing brasses, washing windows, caring for lamps, and the like are best done at some other time than that appointed for cleaning the room. If these jobs are included, they make the regular cleaning too heavy and too long. This process has been written out as if the work were to be done by one person, which frequently is not the case. It is the logical order of the work, however, whatever the number of workers. The outline of the process is this: First all brushing and dusting--everything which gets dust off other things on to the floor. Then the cleaning of the floor. Then wiping away all dust made by the cleaning and restoring order. One cannot effectually do this or any housework with one's mind on something else. The processes are intricate and logical and require thoughtful organization beforehand, and intense attention at the moment. If we can think about our neighbours, or brood over our grievances while we are cleaning, we can be quite sure that we have not done the work as well nor as quickly as we could. VII UPSTAIRS WORK "UPSTAIRS work" is, I believe a colloquialism for making beds, tidying bedrooms, and caring for washstands and bathrooms. _The Sequence._--A reasonable order for this work is the following: Shut the door of the room unless the weather is warm. Roll the shades to the top of the windows. Open the windows top and bottom. Open the closet doors. Take the bedclothes from the bed and spread them across two chairs set far enough apart to keep the clothes from lying on the floor. Spread the lower sheet in a place by itself and remember which it is. Turn the mattress over the foot of the bed, or turn it up on edge. Do these things in all the rooms which are to be cared for, carefully shutting the doors of each. If there are washstands in the rooms, now remove the waste water and put the stands in order. If there are not, make the beds, beginning with the one first opened. Dust and put the rooms in order. Put the bathroom in order. If the bedrooms are on more than one floor, it is well to do a floor at a time, and the bathrooms after all the rooms are finished. The upstairs work is then finished until the beds are opened and the rooms put in order for the night. _The Description._--The first five actions in this order of work are done for the sake of letting as much light and air as possible into the rooms and the beds. The washstands are put in order next because this gives the beds a longer time to air, and because it is desirable to get the waste water out of the rooms as soon as possible.