Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-15
H0usE-CLEANlNG HINTS.

COPpERAs mixed with whitewash pu
upon the cellar walls will keep vermil
! away.
To polish stained floors rub then
thoroughly once week with beeswa,
and turpentine.
STRONG brine may be used to advan
tage In washing bedsteads; hot alum i
also good for this purpose.
HE1LEBoRE sprinkled on the floor q
night destroys cockroaches; they eat i
and are poisoned.
| DRAIN. pipes and all places that ar,
sour or impure may be cleansed will
lime water, copperas water or carbolis
acid. -.
WHEN house cleaning be sure and taxi
nutritious food at least three times Del
day, and it will go far towards enabling
you to keep strength and temper.
HAY, sprinkled with little chloride
of lime and left for an hour in a closed
room, will remove the smell of fresh
paint.
CARPETS should be thoroughly beaten
on the wrong side first, and then on the
right, after which spots may be removed
by the use of ox-gan or ammonia and
water.
The following is recipe for cleaning
marble: Chalk (the POWDER one part;
pumice, one part, common soda, two
parts; mix. Wash the spots with the
powder, mixed with little water: then
clean the whole of the stone, and wash
off with soap and water.
WHERE hard finished walls have al
ready been kalsomined, the soiled coats
should be washed or scraped off before
a new one is put on. This is the most
disagreeable part of the process. The
furniture should be covered, as lime
makes spots that are removed with diff
Guilty, especially upon black walnut.
FURNITURE needs cleaning as much as
other woodwork. It may be washed
with warm soap suds, quickly wiped drv
and then rubbed with an oily cloth. TO
polish it, rub it with rotten-stone and
sweet oil. Clean off the oil and polish
it with channels skin. For ordinary
woodwork use whiting to rub the dirt of
and ammonia. Mortar and paint may
be removed from window glass with hot,
sharp vinegar. Grained wood should
be washed with cold tea.
In washing painted walls it is a good
plan to remove from the room every-
thing that can be injured by steam and
then hang sheets wrung from hat water
In the room. The vapor, condensing on
the walls, softens the dirt, which NAV be
wiped off with wooden cloths wrung
from soda water. Ceilings that have
been smoked by a kerosene lamp should
be washed off with soda water. If the
wall about the stove has been smoked by
the stove, cover the black patches with
gum shellac and they will not strike
through either paint or kalsomine.
PAINT your plastered walls and they
will not absorb odors. You can easily
clean them with soda and water, SOAP
and water spot them. When paper and
plaster become saturated with efluvia
nothing but entire removal will clean
them. Insects will not harbor in paint
ed walls. Before paint or kalsomine is
applied to walls every crack and crevice
should be filed with plaster or cement
made of one part water to one part sill
cate of potash mixed with common whit
ing. For the kalsomine put quarter
of pound of white glue in cold water
over night and heat gradually in the
morning until dissolved. Nix eight
pounds of whiting with hot water. add
the dissolved glue and stir together, add
ing hot water until about the consistency
of thick cream. Use kalsomine brush
and finish as you go along.