Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-05-15
Some Hints in House. Cleaning.

In cleaning house system should al
WAYS be reserved, and only one or two
rooms should be attempted at once,
unless you engage large force and
rush the work throngh in two or three
days, cleaning one floor of the house at
q time. 1t is well to prepare for the
work before it is commenced by cook
ing good supply OF food. boiling a
ham and roasting meat. ETC., etc.
Dom think that any kind of cold food
will do for house-cleaning time, be-
cause the extra labor demands extra
food. and each meal should have some
special dainty, instead of hash
served with cross faces. Carpets in
rooms that are not in constant use need
not be taken up every spring; but if
they are loosened at the ed yes. and the
dust brushed out. moth-powder or salt
and pepper mixed together and scat
tered over the floor under the edges of
the carpet will keep them nice. Dust
the wallpaper by tying large towel
over the broom and sweeping down
regularly; this takes Off all the soil.
Wash the woodwork with cold tea,
if it is grained or oiled. Save the tea
leaves for week and put them into
large pail. pour boiling water over them.
aud boil fifteen minutes. Strain from
the leaves. and use not only for colored
paint, but also for mirrors and windows.
1t is the best thing have ever used for
such purposes.
To clean white paint that is vanished
it is also excellent. If not vanished,
take soms powdered whiting on plate,
and with piece of soft flannel, slightly
moistened, rub Off the spots and soil,
then wipe dry with a soft cloth.
All gilded frames can be cleaned by
rubbing them gently with cloth dipped
into sweet oil and wiping dry with a
chamois-sk Black-walnut, rose
wood, mahogany, oak and chestnut
furniture can be cleaned with furniture
polish, made by mixing one coffee
cupful of colddrawn linseed oil, one of
turpentine and one OF vinegar, to which
two tablespoonful of alcohol should be
added. Put all into bottle and shake
well. 1t is ready for use at once, but
must always be well shaken when APP
piled. Pour out little into saucer.
dip a soft sannel into it. and rub the
furniture according to the grain. Pol
ish with Il chamois-skin or Il dry flannel
rolled up tightly for rubber.
Bedding of all kinds should be aired
in the sun, for there is nothing like sun
shine to freshen and swccten blankets
and mattresses, etc.
Moths, carpet-bugs and cockroaches
are the great enemies of the house,
keeper. and eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty from their deprcda-
tons.
If the carpet-bug is feared, turn back
the edges of the carpets and sprinkle
strong turpentine on the floor, or dip
cloth into it and saturate the floor with
it. Turn back the carpet at once and
you need not fear that :. bug can live in
it. Do this with windows and doors
open, and the odor will soon vanish.
Camphor gum can be substituted if tur-
peptine is obnoxious. Fresh c.,mphene
or burning fluid can be turned between
the stufling of furniture to keep the
away 1t will not stain the
incest fabrics. and the odor will disap-
pear in q few hours in q well-aired |
room.
lnsect-powder, or powdered pyre-
theum. will also kill all kinds of insects.
1t can be blown into crevices of walls |
and furniture with a small apparatus |
hat comes with i can of the powder. |
It should be put into boxes or trunks |
where blankets or wooden stuffs are
Kept to keep out cockroaches, etc.
Scotch snuff or red pepper will keep
ed ants from pantry shelves, and
newspapers spread over the shelves are
llso disagreeable to these nuisances.
leaves Of tansy and sprigs of worm
wood will also eXpel the black and red
lnts from their old haunts,
Straw mating should be washed with
trong salt aud water. Barely moisten
he cloth. and rub it gently. Change
he water as it becomes soiled.
Silver-Rlated door-knobs and hinges
an be frightened with kerosene and
whiting. Wet cloth in the kerosene,
Up it into the powder and rub visor-
'usly. Polish them with a channels
kin. The same article will brighten
ia ard pewter ware. Alabaster and
Marble can be cleaned with punIice-
tone soap. Rub wet cloth upon the
Dap and scrub the marble. Wash off
18th clean water. Freestone hearths
re best cleaned with sheets of sand.
aper.-Latiies' Floral Cabinet.