Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-06

put drOuho ali the cracks. As soon as the
floor Is dry have the carpet put down. If
you are trying to be economical and can
not afrord the regular floor paper get sew
erai hundred old newspapers and lay them
on the noor three or four thick overlapping
each other. You will find them a little
more trouble. but an excellent substitute
Tor feiting or floor paper. They protect
tne carpet from contact with the boards.
which would cause 1t to wear out much
raster, and then ii makes the floor warmer
never let my bed room carpets reach to
the walls, but stop them at least a foot
short OF that 1t is much easier to keep
the edges of the floor free of lint and there
| Is not as much danger of moths getting In
the carpet. L have the foot OF floor left
bare stained and oiled. You can do it your
self, and I'm sure you will like the effect
If you are handy with your paint brush you
can paint the floor I'm stripes to look like an
| iniaid floor. 1t will add TO the beauty of the
room great deal. As soon as the carpet
is down, examine it closely for spots or
rents or worn places. These should all be
attended to before the furniture is put I'm.
The worn places can be mended before the
carpet is put down, IL you like but the
| spots should be left till the carpet is clean
| ed and stretched, then, after sweeping, go
over the soled places with gasoline, rub
btng hard. think you will find no other
treatment is necessary. use gasoline be-
cause IL Is the cheapest and easiest applied
| fluid that / know of.
While the carpets are being put down
you can be cleaning the pictures-remove
the backs and wash the glass and dust
the picture then clean the frame carefully
ana hang as soon as the carpets are down.
pus. ana rub up The chairs. using some
| good furniture polish If necessary, or If
there are no scars rubbing with a kero-
sene rag and an after polish with a flannel
cioth VIII beneht almost all kinds of wood
clean the bedstead and other furniture the
same way. If there is a suspicion of a bug
about your springs or bedstead have them
taken out doors and get a quart of gasoline
aIl9 small pitcher. Brush the bedstead
dilpole the gasoline along the cracks from
the pitcher Saturate them thoroughly and
| then let them stand for an hour. Then give
Ilein another dose of the same. Pour the
mud copiously over the springs and I think
you Will find that you will have no trouble
from bugs thereafter. Clean everything be-
lore you carry 1t back into the room, and
lor tnls purpose you will find the work
| room quite handy. Put up your curtains
ana draperies the last thing
A HOusecleaniag Outfit
some housekeepers do not take up their
stair or hail carpets till the lower door Is
reached in process of cleaning, preferrlng to
| cover them with linen. / always take mine
up the hrst thing, and wipe up the halls
anu stairs, Tor the tramping and dragging
OF heavy furniture over the carpets wears
| them out. 1 think that almost any house
keeper. however inexperienced, will be able
| 10 clean house with the aid of one servant
ana ana man TO do the heavy lifting if she
| VIII follow the directions L have given
| ihere Is nothing accomplished by trying to
| De thought smart, and doing everything
IN a day, then lying In bed for a week with
computation OF ailments and a doctors
| Dill ihat would have paid the hire of half
dozen servants for six months There is
| nothing but discomfort connected with such
procedure Don't delude yourself into
thinking that one cleaning a year will suf-
| nee, no matter how small your family nor
| how clean you all are. 1t is the dust and
the germs, the microbes and lurking disease
| That You need To rid the house Of
| Before you begin to clean house at all, go
| over your rooms, and consider carefully
| what you want to do. If the carpet IL worn
in the middle, you may rip the breadths and
sew the outside edges together, thus making
| II look almost as sood as new, and saving
the price OF new one. If the outside
preadths seem TO be the only ones lit TO use
AGAIN, you may be able TO sew them to-
| gether, for square in the middle of the
re om, and get a cheap strip OF ingram to
| n axe border. Examine the furniture
for loose parts, rubbed spots and broken
places. II the curtains need repairing do
! II before You send them to the cleaners
Make memorandum of all these little re-
pairs needed, and then sit down and make
another TO take with you wien you go to
purchase supplies for housekeeping. You
| will want little varnish, of course.
Hunt up bottle that Will hold a pint, and
! have IL filled at repair shop with the
varnish ready prepared for use. Then get
good brush, which you will be careful to
ciean and put away for future use. You
will want pint OF furniture polish. q pint
| OF walnut stain. gallon of gasoline, n lit
| tie pot of furaiture glue, pound Of pulver-
lied borax, good soap, a quart of good
| smooth flour paste for mending holes in the
wall paper, a box or two of carpet tacks
| plenty of Irvine. tack hammer and a
larger one for driving nails; a pound of
nails of various sizes. linen thread for sew
ing carpet; big needles; beeswax; quart OF
ccal oil; half a pint of turpentine: a can of
white enamel paint, and bottle of gid
ing to touch up picture frames and window
sash; a big stack OF old newspapers-they
come in handy for everything; lots of old
muslin. flannel and linen rags, and a quart
| or two of oatmeal.
Lit is Really Interesting.
This stock of stuff will cost you about
s.. 80, and will probably be enough to last
you through two spells Of housecleaning
You would be able to get along without a
great many CT the things mentioned, but
you will find that they will all be OF great
assistance in making your house cleaner
and freshening up your furniture. or
course yoa can send II to professional and
have II put in shape, but IL will cost a good
deal. be no better done, often not so well,
and you have the extra trouble besides. If
economy is the watchword, you will be
pleased TO see how much you can ac-
complish with a small expenditure Of time
and labor, with not nearly as much nerve
force exhausted as you will use up in a day
or two over bit of drawn work or a
fancy knitting pattern. Instead of being an
awful bugbear. housekeeping I'm a house of
eight or ten rooms ought To be n pleasure
to a woman who likes to have her rooms
bright and comfortable. She can do the
work by easy stages, and, except the ser
wants, nobody in the house be any wiser
linen she has such splendid opportunities TO
exercise her talents in renovating and re-
newlng old furniture to which the family
mas become attached. SONORA SARA
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