Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02
SPRING HOUSE-CLEANING.
How to Confine Its Confusion to Two
Rooms at "a Time.

Rooms at Time.
In the spring the housewives fancy
turns to thoughts of cleaning house,
and until this work is accomplished
she takes very little rest AS the
spring cleaning is usually the general
cleansing OF the year, every nook and
corner is sure to be visited and all
thoroughly cleared out and put in
order. Although there is sure to be
some confusion during this work, yet
good deal may be avoided by clean
ing one room at time, being sure to
keep at it until it is finished before be-
ginning on another. This usually
confines the confusion to two rooms,
the one cleaning and one to which the
furniture of the first is moved.
Begin by removing from the room
to be cleaned all the small ornaments
and articles of furniture, then the
large pieces of furniture, pictures and
mirrors. Take down the curtains,
dust thoroughly, and if of washable
material, send to the laundry. If they
can not be washed. and are not much
soiled, the dusting will be sufficient
If the floor is carpeted, sweep this as
clean as possible, with a tack-lifter re-
move the tacks, fold together
carefully, so as to raise as little dust
as you can, and take out into the air,
where it should be we'll beaten. Where
carpet lining or newspapers have been
used, the dust of these may be easily
removed by carrying them out into the
air, leaving very little dust on the
floor. Where straw is used under car
pets, after removing this the dust
under it can be swept up by sprink-
ling the floor with water. After taking
up the dust wipe the floor over with
damp mop, not wet enough to wash
it, but just enough to take up the
superhuous dust, so the base boards
around the room may be washed with
out being smeared by the cloth coming
in contact with the dusty floor. Wash
the paint with a soft, white flannel
cloth, warm water and some good soap.
If light color or white, whiting in the
water will improve its appearance. If
very much soiled, and one is not par
ticular about the gloss, ammonia in the
water will cleanse it perfectly, but will
remove the polish, Wash the windows
in ammonia water, and the floor also.
When the floor is dry and the
carpet well shaken, put down
the latter, replace the pictures,
furniture and curtains, after wip-
ing them over thoroughly. Rub
the furniture if dark with some good
furniture-polish or warm linseed oil,
using only a little oil and good deal
of rubbing. Test the cords, nails and
screw-eyes of pictures, mirrors, etc.,
and be sure they are strong enough to
stand the weight Of the article another
year. Cold tea is the best thing with
which to clean grained wood. Never
use ammonia for this work. insight
ly grease spots can be removed from
wall paper by using blotting paper
and warm iron. Take a piece of
blotting paper, double it, and hold it
on the spot of grease, and then press
on this warm iron. Remove the
paper, and If the spot is not all out,
use a clean piece, and so continue un-
til the stain has disappeared. Common
brown meat paper, folded two or three
ply, is good when the other is not con-
venient Spirits of camphor will re-
move white spots from furniture. as
also will alcohol; but if the article is
vanished this also will come off, so
unless you wish to revarnish. alcohol
should not be used on vanished fur
niture. We do not know what effect
spirits of camphor will have on this
same kind of furniture, but the effect
of the alcohol we have learned from
experience Boston Budget
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