Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-08-18
Washington Standard
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
How to Clean Carpets and Floors.

now TO Ilcdn CdfpetS ana Tl0OrS.
When carpets become spotted with
grease a hot iron used over blotting-
paper will generally remove the spots.
Bcnzlnc is also good when we'll rubbed
in with flannel.
TO cleanse and brighten a carpet
put three tablespoonfuls of ammonia
into pail of clean water, and so over
the surface OF the carpet with cloth
we'll wrung from the liquid.
Wash thing with cold water, using
q clean flannel. A thin cream OF
whiting and water may be rubbed
over the surface and wiped off with a
wet flannel. Clean white marble and
stone hcarths with sapolio and cold
water, drying carefully.
Sweep mating with a soft brush,
and at least once in three or four
weeks wash it thoroughly with cold
salt water. Dissolve half-cupful Of
salt in pailful OF water. After wash
ing rub dry with clean towel. For
discolorcd mating use weak solution
OF soda and water.
Where the common stiff broom is
used for the general carpet sweeping,
sawdust slightly damp, well-washed
tca-leaves, even bits of newspaper
slightly damp may be torn up and
scattered over the carpet, and will
help in keeping down the dust.
Never use soap on oilcloth. Wash
oilcloth with sponge and cold water,
and polish with flannel. To improve
the color and repolish when dim,
beeswax and turpentine mixed and
we'll rubbed in, very sparingly, will be
found to greatly improve and restore
both the coloring and smoothness of
surface.
Choking May Be Easily Relieved.
Raising the left arm as high as
you can will relieve choking much
more rapidly than by being thumped
en- the back" explained medical
man to reporter. "And it is we'll
that everyone should know it, for
often person gets choked while eat
ing when there is no one near to
thump him. Frequently at meals
and when they are at play children
get choked while eating, and the Gus.
tomary manner of relieving them is to
slap them sharply on the back. The
effect of this is to set the obstruction
free, so that it can be swallowed.
The same thing can be brought about
by raising the left hand of the child
as high as possible, and the relief
comes much more rapidly.
In happenings of this kind there
'should be no alarm, for if child sees
that older persons or parents get ex-
cited it is liable to get so also. The
best thing to do is to tell the child to
raise its left arm, and Immediately the
difficulty passes down.
To Drive Away Flies.
Drovers' Journal says that the use of
whale oil soap with little carbolic
acid, small tablespoonful to a quart,
put on the backs of cattle is said to be
an effectual remedy against flies. 1t
will have to be repeated in about three
or four weeks, but it pays big returns
as cattle that are bothered by flies
they cannot reach often not only fail
to gain, but actually lose flesh.
The New York Tribune gives the
following remedy: "People in the
country who are annoyed by flies
should remember that clusters of the
fragrant clover, which grows abund-
antly by nearly every roadside, if
hung in the room and left to dry and
shed its faint fragrant perfume
through the air, will drive away more
flies than sticky saucers of molasses
and other fy-traps and fy-papers will
ever collect"
And still another endorses the
leaves of the castor oil bean.