A Wash for Carpets. Mix together 30 cents' worth of ground soap-tree bark (which can be purchased at any drugstore), 5 cents' worth of ammonia, one cup of vinegar, one and a half pails of water✪ A Wash for Carpets. Boil this mixture one hour in a boiler, and use it on the carpet with a sponge. To Destroy Carpet Bugs. Make a solution of one tablespoonful of corrosive sublimate in a quart of hot water and saturate the floors and cracks of walls or closets. A weaker solution can be used to sponge the carpets. It is a sure cure. The Care of the House 261 To Destroy Cockroaches. Mix together thoroughly one pound of powdered sugar, one pound of powdered borax and ten cents' worth of Paris green✪ To Destroy Cockroaches.- Put in all places where they are seen, with a small bellows or puffer. How to Sweep a Carpet. It is an easy matter to sweep well, at any rate, if we may judge by experience; for when a broom is put into the hands of the uninitiated, more harm than good generally results from the use of it. With- out the greatest care and some little knowledge, furniture and paint, by being knocked about with the broom, may soon receive an irreparable amount of damage. Before sweeping rooms, the floors should be strewed with a good amount of dry tea leaves, which should be saved for the purpose; these will attract the dust and save much harm to other furniture, which, as far as possible, should be covered up during the process. Tea leaves also may be used with advantage upon drugget and short-piled carpets. Light sweeping and soft brooms are here desirable. Many a carpet is prematurely worn out by injudicious sweeping. Stiff carpet brooms and ihe stout arms of inexperienced servants are their destruction. In sweeping thick-piled carpets, such as Axminster and Turkey carpets, the servant should be instructed to brush always the way of the pile; by so doing they may be kept clean for years; but if the broom is used in a different way, all the dust will enter the carpet and soon spoil it. Furniture Polish. One pint of boiled oil, four ounces of vinegar, two ounces of spirits of camphor, one ounce of ammonia, one half ounce of antimony. Shake and let stand two or three days before using. Spots on Furniture. Spirits of camphor or ammonia will remove white spots from furniture. To Take out Marks from Mahogany. The whitish stain left on a mahogany table by a jug of boiling water, or 262 The Care of the House a very hot dish, may be removed by rubbing in oil, and afterward pouring a little spirits of wine on the spot and rubbing it dry with a soft cloth. To Brighten Gilt Frames. Take sufificient flour of sulphur to give a golden tinge to about one and one-half pint of water, and in this boil four or five bruised onions, or garlic✪ To Brighten Gilt Frames, which will answer the same pur- pose. Strain off the liquid, and with it, when cold, wash, with a soft brush, any gilding which requires restoring, and when dry it will come out as bright as new' work. They may also be brightened in the following manner: Beat up the white of eggs with chloride of potass or soda, in the proportion of 3 oz. of eggs to i oz. of chloride of potass or soda. Blow off as much dust as possible from the frames, and paint them over with a soft brush dipped in the above mixture. They will immediately come put fresh and bright.

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A Wash for Carpets. Mix together 30 cents' worth of ground soap-tree bark (which can be purchased at any drugstore), 5 cents' worth of ammonia, one cup of vinegar, one and a half pails of water. Boil this mixture one hour in a boiler, and use it on the carpet with a sponge. To Destroy Carpet Bugs. Make a solution of one tablespoonful of corrosive sublimate in a quart of hot water and saturate the floors and cracks of walls or closets. A weaker solution can be used to sponge the carpets. It is a sure cure. The Care of the House 261 To Destroy Cockroaches. Mix together thoroughly one pound of powdered sugar, one pound of powdered borax and ten cents' worth of Paris green.- Put in all places where they are seen, with a small bellows or puffer. How to Sweep a Carpet. It is an easy matter to sweep well, at any rate, if we may judge by experience; for when a broom is put into the hands of the uninitiated, more harm than good generally results from the use of it. Without the greatest care and some little knowledge, furniture and paint, by being knocked about with the broom, may soon receive an irreparable amount of damage. Before sweeping rooms, the floors should be strewed with a good amount of dry tea leaves, which should be saved for the purpose; these will attract the dust and save much harm to other furniture, which, as far as possible, should be covered up during the process. Tea leaves also may be used with advantage upon drugget and short-piled carpets. Light sweeping and soft brooms are here desirable. Many a carpet is prematurely worn out by injudicious sweeping. Stiff carpet brooms and the stout arms of inexperienced servants are their destruction. In sweeping thick-piled carpets, such as Axminster and Turkey carpets, the servant should be instructed to brush always the way of the pile; by so doing they may be kept clean for years; but if the broom is used in a different way, all the dust will enter the carpet and soon spoil it. Furniture Polish. One pint of boiled oil, four ounces of vinegar, two ounces of spirits of camphor, one ounce of ammonia, one half ounce of antimony. Shake and let stand two or three days before using. Spots on Furniture. Spirits of camphor or ammonia will remove white spots from furniture. To Take out Marks from Mahogany. The whitish stain left on a mahogany table by a jug of boiling water, or 262 The Care of the House a very hot dish, may be removed by rubbing in oil, and afterward pouring a little spirits of wine on the spot and rubbing it dry with a soft cloth. To Brighten Gilt Frames. Take sufificient flour of sulphur to give a golden tinge to about one and one-half pint of water, and in this boil four or five bruised onions, or garlic, which will answer the same purpose. Strain off the liquid, and with it, when cold, wash, with a soft brush, any gilding which requires restoring, and when dry it will come out as bright as new' work. They may also be brightened in the following manner: Beat up the white of eggs with chloride of potass or soda, in the proportion of 3 oz. of eggs to i oz. of chloride of potass or soda. Blow off as much dust as possible from the frames, and paint them over with a soft brush dipped in the above mixture. They will immediately come put fresh and bright.

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