Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-16
gaaies' Column.
HOUSE CLEANING.

As far as practicable, move everything
out of the room to be cleaned. If clothes
or pieces of carpeting are stored in the
attic, or in any room to be cleaned, take
them into the yard, brush we'll. hang on
the line, and let them remain there for
the sun and wind to free from dust and
dampness. while one is attending to the
clothes. trunks, bags and boxes that us
ually fill up the attic, to expedite the
work another with clean brushes. brooms
and busters can begin the cleaning.
Brush every cobweb from the walls with
long handed brush, and sweep down
the walls with stiff broom. Take up
the dust and put into pail-ncver leave
it standing in the shallow dustpan to be
blown back into the room. If the walls
are hard-6nish they can be washed off
with some warm soapsuds and wiped dry.
Then wash and polish the windows, and
scrub all woodwork and the floors with
very hot suds rinse off with hot water,
made hotter with good quantity of cay
enne or red pepper. If this is faithfully
used this peppered rinsing-water will
find its way into every crack or crevice
in the wall or on the floor. Mice and
rats will seek cooler boarding place,
and insects of all kinds will keep re-
spectful distance.
When the floor is well scrubbed and
dried, blow with small bellows which
comes for this purpose cayenne pepper,
Persian Powder or Pools Moth Powder
into every hole or crack that can be
reached, and then replace whatever be-
longs in the room unless the walls, not
being hard finish. need to be white
washed This must be done after the
woodwork is washed and scrubbed, but
before scrubbiag the floor, that any
white-wash that may drop from the
brush may be removed.
The attic finished descend to the next
story, and SO on till all parts of the house
have been faithfully cleaned. But new
er a1Sen.rt- more than one or two rooms
at o time. Do not make the rarniiy
wretched by making the whole house un-
fit to stay in. 1t sometimes happens
that all the family are absent except
the mistress. and then the whole house
may be dismantled and cleaned at once.
This is always comfort, because the
work can be done SO much easier and
better. Then all the help that can work
to advantage can be called in. and the
whole work speedily accomplished. A
half dozen cleaners for three days are no
more troublesome or expensive than
half the number for twice as many days.
In cleaning room remove everything
that can be moved without injury. Take
down curtains and cover such articles as
must remain in the room. Take up such
carpets as need cleaning, and, if not
, sent to carpet-sweeping establishment
remove them to the back yard. stretch
across clothes-line, and get man tc
beat and brush them faithfully While
} the carpets are receiving their share o.
attention another hand can clean what
| ever is removed from the room. Brush
, the upholstered furniture with a furni
| ture brush, cleaning around each buttoI
, or tuft Turn sofas and chairs down
/ snd beat them with a carpet or furni
ture whip, then brush again, and wip'
the covers with clean damp cloth Il
r take off what dust may have settled
e Take basin of warm soap suds ant
3 wash all the wood work and carving Will
D soft cloth Wash only small par
| of one thing at time, and then wip
t dry as quickly as possible and polisl
: with channels skin. If left wet til
t the whole piece is we'll washed the soaI
t suds may turn the varnish. But if care
e fully done it cleans furniture of all fnge
4 marks.