The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-04-18
Household Hints for Spring,


For ordinary woodwork use whiting
TO rub the dirt oil, and ammonia.
Coppcras mixed with the whitewash
upon the cellar walls will keep vcrmin
away,
Ceilings that have been smoked by q
kerosene lamp should be washed OIL
with soda water.
Hcllebore sprinklcd on tho floor at
night destroys cockroaches; they cat it
and'arc poisoned. o t-.
n. Good fires should be kept up during
house cleaning time, even though the
doors and windows be kept open.
Drain pipes and all places that are
sour or impure may be cleanscd with
limeewate copperas water or carbohc
acid.
little chloride Of lime dissolved in
warm water, and left ina lamp or can
which has held kerosene will deodorize
it very soon.
Salt literally sprinkled over carpet
before sweeping will absorb the dust
and dirt, and bring out the colors as
fresh as new.
If stove polish is mixed with very
strong soap suds the luster appears i'm
mediately, consequently there is less
dust to breathe and blacken.
Paper and plaster are active absorb
ents, and when they become thoroughly
saturated with various etlluvia nothing
but entire removal will cleanse them.
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 OK gall or ammonia and
water.
If the wall about the stove has been
smoked BY the stove, cover the black
patches with gum shellac and they viii
not strike through either paint or calci-
mine.
One way to clean the inside OF pots
and pans is to fill them with water in
which few ounces of washing soda is
dissolved, and set them on the fire. Let
the water boil until the inside OF the pot
looks clean.
Papered walls are cleaned by being
wiped down with flannel cloth tied
over the broom or brush. Then cut OF
a thick piece of stale bread with the
crust on and rub them down with this,
Begin at the top and go straight down.
Furniture needs cleansing as much as
other woodwork. 1t may be washed
with warm soap suds. quickly wiped
dry and then rubbed with an oily cloth,
To polish it rub with rotten stone and
sweet oil Clean off the oil and polish
with chamois skin.
4 hanging-pillow for either chair OF
sofa may be made rich ornament
Ticking will be in acquisitions cut two
pieces about sixteen inches long and
seven inches deep in the center, tapeIing
TO less than three at the sides, sew to-
gether, and fill with curled hair En-.
broidered satin, or silk serge oyerlaid
with silk net, is an elegant outside; mo.
sale silk patchwork or worsted in tricot
is also very pretty Sew taSseled fringe
across the bottom, and finish the side,
and top with moss fringe. The heavy
silk cord by which to suspend the pill.
low passes through eyelets wrought
near the ends.
Before paint or calcimine is applied
to walls every creyice should be filled
with plaster or cement For the calci-
mine put IA quarter Of pound OF white
glue in cold water over night aud heat
gradually in the morning until dissolved.
Mix eight pounds Of whiting with hot
water, add the dissolved glue and STIR
together, adding warm water until about
the consistency Of thick cream. Use a
calcimne brush, and finish rs you 20
along. If skim milk is used instead OF
water, the glue may be omitted
One low seat in the form of an otto.
man is desirable in living apartments,
and chamber is hardly complete with
out one A chair with an affection OF
the spine can be easily metamorphosed
into stand ready for the upholstery.
Cover the top with wooden goods in col
or that viii harmonic with other fur.
nishings, Two puiis OF the same ma
terial head boX-plaitng lined with erin
olne, and nearly reach the floor. 4
pretty tidy to cap the whole can be
wrought out Of velyetccn and Cretonue,
with finish of cord aud tassels.