The Davenport gazette., 1854-04-20
Nsa tbs WssfSrs Literary Cs1sas,
TO HOuSEkEEpERS

House Cleaning. Where il can be done,
there ID much less discomfort in the family
il only one room 10 cleaned al a time.
The fret thing to be done is to cover the
furniture in the room, TO protect it from the
dust; then with carpet hammer, careful
" draw the tacks from the carpet; roll hit up
and having suspended il on line or high
fence, give it thorough beating with fexi-
BILE whips; leave it to the sir while you fn-
ish your room. After removing the dus,
that has accumulated under your carpet,
take clean broom and sweep the walls
and overhead, Ii the walls are prepared,
the paper may be cleaned in the following
manner:
To Clean Wal Paper.-Tskc = loaf Q.
bread, cut it into half dozen Of pieces.
Regin At the top Of the wall and rub down
wards with the soft part Of the bread, cut
ting off the surface as soon as il becomes
soiled, A good sized room will require two
loaves of bread. and perhaps more.
Washing Pdsnt-l! the wood work Of
your room is grained and varnished, il should
be washed With warm milk and water, with
out soap, but il it 10 simply painted, suds
made of soft water and the same mixture as
in washing bed clothes, will be found much
better than soap alone. White paint looks
best washed in very weak lye; but the
hands are liable TO chap in using il. In
washing paint the wash cloth should always
be partly wrung, only small portion wash
ed at a time, and wiped dry Immediately.
This preserves q uniform appearance in the
paint WINDOWS should be washed in warm
suds, rinsed in soft water. left to drain few
minutes, and then wiped dry with paper
If there is milky appearance TO the glass.
. little whiting viii remove IT,
Do not put straw under your carpets !;
rsner is far better There is heavy brown
paper manufactured expressly for this pnr-
pose: but old newspapers answer the pur-
pose very we'll and a lady who has used
papers for years says she has never been
troubled with moths" \ little tobacco or
snuff scattered arounl the edges Of the car
pet upon the paper will make " assurance
doubly sure
Old houses, that have had many tenants,
are apt to be infested with bed bugs. Il is
good security against these annoying oc-
cupants 10 scatter Scotch snuff around the
base boards, and in cracks in the walls Of
your bed rooms After scalding your bed
steads, if you rub the posts with little
sweet oil, and then with g feather apply
melted lard to the joints, you may feel quite
sure of having conquered these domestic
enemies.
Cheap Cdrpetine.-We copy from Mrs.
Hale's" New Receip, Book /" the following
novel mode of manufacturing carpets for
bed rooms and the like:
Sew together strips of the cheapest
cotton cloth of the s.ze of the room, and
tack the edges to the floor Then naDer
the cloth, as you would the sides of the
room, with any sort of room paper. After
being well dried, give it two coats Of var
pish, and your carpet is finished
Vanishing Fa-nitQre-This should be the
finishing touch to house cleaning. and any
lady can easily learn to doit The expense
Of the vsrnish is trifing, compared TO the
renovating effects which few hours labor
viii produce, making the "auld things look
amsist as guide as new