For Removing Grease from Carpets. — Half a wineglassful
of fuller's earth, half a wineglassful of magnesia. Mix the
above in a basin with boiling water✪ Removing Grease from Carpets; put it hot on the grease
spot, or spots, and leave it on till it is dry, then brush it off,
and you will find the spots are gone. Or, if the grease is
recent, lay a sheet of blotting-paper over it and iron over the
spot with a hot flat-iron; it will come out in the blotting-paper,
but you must keep moving the paper and applying fresh parts
of it till the heat has absorbed the whole of the grease.
To Remove Ink from Carpets. — If the ink is just spilled,
take up as much as you can with a spoon and with blotting
paper. When you have taken off all that is possible, wash well
with skim milk (London milk does as it is), then wash again
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with hot water. As soon as the accident happens, wet the
place with juice of sorrel, or lemon, or vinegar, and the best
hard white soap. Old ink-stains are hard to get out; but they
can be removed by first wetting the spot and then applying
salts of sorrel. Wash off immediately, however.
Fuller's earth, mixed with lemon juice, will also take other
stains out of carpets.
Carpets should not be swept with a whisk-brush above once
a week. It wears them out if it is used oftener.
To Clean Floor Cloths. — Sweep them and wash them now
and then with milk; never scour them with a brush, or use
soap or hot water on them, as it would take off the paint. A
soft cloth and lukewarm water are all that is required to clean
them.
Oil-cloths are washed, when they require it, with a soft
flannel wetted with milk; or, with a mixture of salad-oil and
weak table beer. Never use soda or soap to them.
To Clean Greasy Cocoanut Matting. — Thoroughly scrub it
all over with hot water and soap, then loosely fold it and put
it into a large washing-tub. Pour a quantity of cold water
over it, .then hang it out on a line in the sun to dry.
To Clean Straw Matting. — Wash as seldom as possible; but
when it becomes imperatively necessary to do so, use salt and
water. Salt will prevent the matting from turning yellow.
Dry as fast as you wash, and wash only a small space at a
time.
Stained boards are dusted and polished as stained furni-
ture would be.
To Clean Glass. — Tumblers and wineglasses should be
washed in cold water in which a little soda is dissolved, then
turned up to drain, dried with a soft, clean, and dry cloth, and
finally polished with a leather or an old silk handkerchief.
Chandelier or lustre glasses are washed in the same way. De-
canters require careful cleaning. First have ready some strong
suds of white soap and water and a little pearlash. Mash up
an egg-shell well, drop it into the bottle, pour in some of the
soap-suds, and shake it well about till the bottle is clean, then
empty it; put in fresh suds and clean inside with a small sponge✪ To Clean Glass
on the end of a glass-stick; rinse out twice with clean cold
water. Next put them into the soap-suds, and i^ they are cut
wash them with a regular glass-brush; next rinse the outside.
Dry the inside with a clean piece of linen on the end of your
glass-stick. Wipe the outside with a dry glass-cloth, and pol-
ish off with a leather or silk handerchief.
To Remove Rust. — To remove rust from steel, cover with
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For Removing Grease from Carpets. — Half a wineglassful of fuller's earth, half a wineglassful of magnesia. Mix the above in a basin with boiling water; put it hot on the grease spot, or spots, and leave it on till it is dry, then brush it off, and you will find the spots are gone. Or, if the grease is recent, lay a sheet of blotting-paper over it and iron over the spot with a hot flat-iron; it will come out in the blotting-paper, but you must keep moving the paper and applying fresh parts of it till the heat has absorbed the whole of the grease.
To Remove Ink from Carpets. — If the ink is just spilled, take up as much as you can with a spoon and with blotting paper. When you have taken off all that is possible, wash well with skim milk (London milk does as it is), then wash again
with hot water. As soon as the accident happens, wet the place with juice of sorrel, or lemon, or vinegar, and the best hard white soap. Old ink-stains are hard to get out; but they can be removed by first wetting the spot and then applying salts of sorrel. Wash off immediately, however.
Fuller's earth, mixed with lemon juice, will also take other stains out of carpets.
Carpets should not be swept with a whisk-brush above once a week. It wears them out if it is used oftener.
To Clean Floor Cloths. — Sweep them and wash them now
and then with milk; never scour them with a brush, or use soap or hot water on them, as it would take off the paint. A soft cloth and lukewarm water are all that is required to clean them.
Oil-cloths are washed, when they require it, with a soft flannel wetted with milk; or, with a mixture of salad-oil and weak table beer. Never use soda or soap to them.
To Clean Greasy Cocoanut Matting. — Thoroughly scrub it all over with hot water and soap, then loosely fold it and put it into a large washing-tub. Pour a quantity of cold water over it, .then hang it out on a line in the sun to dry.
To Clean Straw Matting. — Wash as seldom as possible; but when it becomes imperatively necessary to do so, use salt and water. Salt will prevent the matting from turning yellow. Dry as fast as you wash, and wash only a small space at a time.
Stained boards are dusted and polished as stained furniture would be.
To Clean Glass. — Tumblers and wineglasses should be washed in cold water in which a little soda is dissolved, then turned up to drain, dried with a soft, clean, and dry cloth, and finally polished with a leather or an old silk handkerchief. Chandelier or lustre glasses are washed in the same way. Decanters require careful cleaning. First have ready some strong suds of white soap and water and a little pearlash. Mash up an egg-shell well, drop it into the bottle, pour in some of the soap-suds, and shake it well about till the bottle is clean, then empty it; put in fresh suds and clean inside with a small sponge on the end of a glass-stick; rinse out twice with clean cold water. Next put them into the soap-suds, and i^ they are cut wash them with a regular glass-brush; next rinse the outside. Dry the inside with a clean piece of linen on the end of your glass-stick. Wipe the outside with a dry glass-cloth, and polish off with a leather or silk handerchief.
To Remove Rust. — To remove rust from steel, cover with
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