Wash the flannel clean in the soap-suds, wring it out of the warm water and proceed as before. If the carpet is very dirty or has much green in it, use fresh ox-gall in the lukewarm water in the proportion of a quart of gall to three quarts of water, and rub the carpet dry as already directed. This rubbing a carpet raises the pile and freshens the colors. When the carpet is nicely down and swept the room is ready for its customary furniture, unless the more thorough renovation of kalso- mining and painting is to follow the cleaning. Before replacing, every article should be thoroughly cleaned, every button and tuft of the uphol- - stered goods receiving its share of attention from the furniture-brush. Sofas and chairs should be turned down and whipped then carefully ’ brushed, and all dust wiped off with a clean cloth slightly damped. Clean the pictures and hang them back. If photo or engraving, and dust under the glass, take them out and rub off with a clean cloth. Clean the glass by washing in weak ammonia water and wiping dry. If gilt frames, wash with . a little flour of sulphur and rain-water; if rosewood or other dark wood and varnished, rub with furniture polish made as follows: Alcohol, eight _ ounces, linseed oil (raw) eight ounces, balsam fir, one-half ounce, acetic -» ether, one-half ounce. Dissolve the fir in the alcohol, then add the others and apply with a flannel cloth, and rub until dry. If oiled (not var- nished), rub with a cloth wrung out of lamp (kerosene) oil and they will look like new. Go over all the furniture with the above polish or oil, accord- ing as they are oiled or varnished. If ever troubled with bed bugs, go over every part good with lamp-oil. Clean all the other rooms the same way, leaving the hall until the last. Wash the oil-cloth with water in which some borax is dissolved, and wipe with a cloth wrung out of sweet milk. Follow the above directions for the rooms down stairs; do not have more than two rooms torn up at once. Clean out all moths as you go, for they will soon ruin carpets, chairs, sofas, etc., if not killed. Polish the furniture as above, and do not raise any dust where it is fora fewdays. Ink stains can be taken out with oxalic acid. Wash in cold water, then in a solution of chloride of lime, than in water again; if white goods, warm them up in ~ Se ee Re ee Oe Ne MCS Ceesetyr em ey Be Mmos a wen Styne Ie uae SPT PATA AS Tlf hor aay . Wa Pe digs vee GTN Wie dala AE vec ii DAC ie wd See CARY BAA Ta SEN Ei ' ‘ tira er, i oe np Pat Fant Naat mo", ry + pre : He) roe oan lear WREtal get BU Cai i : : } ny iy’ <i ‘ nee | elves 4 j f j nt hey : r * . HOUUSE-CLEANING. 379 Be salted milk, let them lie some time, and then wash in water. In cleaning paint, use water in which ammonia has been added, till it feels slippery, or use fine whiting—to be had at the paint or drug-stores. Take a flannel dipped in warm water, squeezed nearly dry; dip this in the whiting, and Re, rub the paint with it; then wash off with warm water. For windows, use either of the above, or Indexical soap. For the natural wood, or grained work, use clear water and wipe off quickly, or, cold tea. Paint can be taken off where not wanted, with turpentine. Apply with a sponge, after a little time it will rub off; if cloth, rub between the hands ae a and it will crumble off. White spots can be taken off varnished furniture Hat: by rubbing with a'rag wet with spirits of camphor. i mie

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Wash the flannel clean in the soap-suds, wring it out of the warm water and proceed as before. If the carpet is very dirty or has much green in it, use fresh ox-gall in the lukewarm water in the proportion of a quart of gall to three quarts of water, and rub the carpet dry as already directed. This rubbing a carpet raises the pile and freshens the colors. When the carpet is nicely down and swept the room is ready for its customary furniture, unless the more thorough renovation of kalsomining and painting is to follow the cleaning. Before replacing, every article should be thoroughly cleaned, every button and tuft of the uphol- - stered goods receiving its share of attention from the furniture-brush. Sofas and chairs should be turned down and whipped then carefully ’ brushed, and all dust wiped off with a clean cloth slightly damped. Clean the pictures and hang them back. If photo or engraving, and dust under the glass, take them out and rub off with a clean cloth. Clean the glass by washing in weak ammonia water and wiping dry. If gilt frames, wash with . a little flour of sulphur and rain-water; if rosewood or other dark wood and varnished, rub with furniture polish made as follows: Alcohol, eight _ ounces, linseed oil (raw) eight ounces, balsam fir, one-half ounce, acetic -» ether, one-half ounce. Dissolve the fir in the alcohol, then add the others and apply with a flannel cloth, and rub until dry. If oiled (not varnished), rub with a cloth wrung out of lamp (kerosene) oil and they will look like new. Go over all the furniture with the above polish or oil, according as they are oiled or varnished. If ever troubled with bed bugs, go over every part good with lamp-oil. Clean all the other rooms the same way, leaving the hall until the last. Wash the oil-cloth with water in which some borax is dissolved, and wipe with a cloth wrung out of sweet milk. Follow the above directions for the rooms down stairs; do not have more than two rooms torn up at once. Clean out all moths as you go, for they will soon ruin carpets, chairs, sofas, etc., if not killed. Polish the furniture as above, and do not raise any dust where it is for a few days. Ink stains can be taken out with oxalic acid. Wash in cold water, then in a solution of chloride of lime, than in water again; if white goods, warm them up in ~ Se ee Re ee Oe Ne MCS Ceesetyr em ey Be Mmos a wen Styne Ie uae SPT PATA AS Tlf hor aay . Wa Pe digs vee GTN Wie dala AE vec ii DAC ie wd See CARY BAA Ta SEN Ei ' ‘ tira er, i oe np Pat Fant Naat mo", ry + pre : He) roe oan lear WREtal get BU Cai i : : } ny iy’ <i ‘ nee | elves 4 j f j nt hey : r * . HOUSE-CLEANING. 379 Be salted milk, let them lie some time, and then wash in water. In cleaning paint, use water in which ammonia has been added, till it feels slippery, or use fine whiting—to be had at the paint or drug-stores. Take a flannel dipped in warm water, squeezed nearly dry; dip this in the whiting, and Re, rub the paint with it; then wash off with warm water. For windows, use either of the above, or Indexical soap. For the natural wood, or grained work, use clear water and wipe off quickly, or, cold tea. Paint can be taken off where not wanted, with turpentine. Apply with a sponge, after a little time it will rub off; if cloth, rub between the hands ae a and it will crumble off. White spots can be taken off varnished furniture Hat: by rubbing with a'rag wet with spirits of camphor. i mie

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