The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-05-14
SPRING TACK TlUKs.
Some Valuable Pointers About IandliHg
Carpet.

NlVohih5 40 tAo Stti pSV luCoVloils a ldA4l-
lily worth fifty or sixty million dollars
can afford to hire mob to come into the
house and wrestle with the question, but
the man who feels that he must econo-
mize somewhere after paying thirty dol
lars for box to see and hear Sara may
well tremble at the prospect before min.
There are, howeyCs, certain fundamen-
tai principles which can be followed
with the greatest benefits, and if closely
adhered to win make the affair an en-
ioyable one from start to finish.
Never attempt to pull the tacks out of
carpet before lifting it. 1t is not only
time >Srown away, but you are apt to
injure the fabric. Borrow a crowbar of
your neighbor and use it as pry, and
you can accomplish in five minutes what
used to be considered half days work,
The first thing to be done after lifting
a carpet is to look for tablespoons, pocket
knives, rattle boxes, marbles, gold pieces
and baby shoes which have worked
under it during the year, They should
be carefully placed in bushel basket,
and the basket, when full, should be
carefully set away.
In olden days it was supposed that it
took fourteen men to roll up twenty-five
yards of Brussels carpet, and get it
through the hail. dining room and kitch-
en- into the back yard. Mans inventive
genius has reduced the number to one.
Having arranged with house mover tC
be on hand at certain hour, open the
parlor window, attach the tackles, and
as his team walks around the windlasc
the carpet will gracefully move out and
take seat on the grass. BY an arrange
ment of skids, tramway and rope and
tackle it can be curved around into the
back yard, ready for hanging ON the line
| A line for carpet should consist of q
chain cable formerly used by steam,
boat, and warranted to sustain 10000
pounds to the inch. When properly
strung from the house to the barn they
will carry a double parlor carpet il
safety, and even goatskin rug or two
may be added
There are several ways of hosting {
carpet up over the cable so that it cal
be beaten. A 20-horse power engine
with proper arrangement of shafts ant
pulleys, will do it, or a tackle and fiv
yoke of oxen have been known to accom-
plish the purpose. A late spring styl
is to start a smudge in the back yard
turn in fire alarm, and after the crow
gets there call for volunteers to help ele
vate.
When q carpet is in position to b
beaten the sharp man will do some figul
! ing. By little diplomacy an entir
athletic club can be brought up to pelt
and jump over it and thump thunde
out of it. Any man with kicking mul
will lend him to You at two shillings a
hour. No tramp applying for grub ca
refuse to WELD the club for half an houl
Policemen on probation, who want t
learn the use of the baton, can be steere
around to knock the tar out of that cal
pet if you manage it right. The hous
owner who sets out to beat his own cal
pet should plan on taking at least wee
p for it. No carpet is ever in hurry.
4 seems to rather enjoy the novelty of til
S occasion.
1 Some men are confined to precedent i
: beating u carpet. Because their fatht
4 and grandfather used a broom hand
+. they hesitate to innovate. A broom han
= die is good as far as it goes, but after tn
+ first hour, when the porous plaster in I'll
q small of the back begins to itch, otht
weapons can be resorted to. A crowba
, clothes horse, pickax, long handle
shovel, kitchen chair, section of stow
pipe, table leg or fence rail are all col
sidered legitimate implements to use
:, getting the best of carpet.
q There is no particular programme lai
Q down for beating. You can begin Q
n the east, north, south or west end,
: jump slap dab into the middle of it an
4 pound toward the outside. The gran
object is to make the fabric yield up
!, store of dust, crumbs, buttons, bone
70 tinware, clothespins, hairpins, coar
combs, asphalt, brickbats and trur
keys.-Detroit Free Press.