floor-brushes

Updated: May 12, 2025

There is a general and constant exercise of brooms, pails, floor-brushes and mops all over Holland, and in some places, even, this kind of thing is carried so far, I am told, that the only trees set out are scrub-oaks." Barnum thought that the reason why his exhibitions were not better patronized here was that the people were too frugal to spend much money for mere amusements.

Joel Benton - The Life of Phineas T. Barnum