The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23
Efficient Housekeeping
 By LAURA A. FIREMAN.


Old Subscriber: ''Is there any remedy for Buffalo Bugs?"
 Answer: Buffalo Bugs Cor Carpet Beetles"O feed upon carpets, woolens and silks. To rid your home of them, spray your carpets with benzine (but not near heat nor fiame) and wash Pour kerosene into floor cracks and under base boards, then fill the cracks with plaster of paris. Tarred paper, if laid under carpets, will often prove a good exterminator. Replacing carpets by rugs is also most advisa- ble. Many housewives use this meth cd: place a damp cloth over the in Tested carpet and iron upon this with a hot iron Steam will pass through the carpet, killing insects directly un- der the ironed part Another meth cd is this: have your druggist dissolve 60 gr. corrosive sublimate in 1 pint under sides of carpet. This destroys larvae. But great care must be taken in using corrosive sublimate as it is poisonous
 High School Girl: Help, Help! What shall I give my teachers for Christmas? Please print this in time-even if it's Christmas Evel I can't think of a thing and am all ways dashing around on the twenty fourth in a frenzy, buying gifts. My brother says. All the cuckoos aren't in the clocks!'
 Answer: Well, little Reader Friend you seem to be the Horrible Exam pie that all these Do-Your Christmas Shopping-Early people are preaching against I think your teachers might like some of the following gifts: small notebook with a good leather cover, lily bulbs in a pottery bowl ,inexpens- i've bar pin, folding metal drinking handkerchief, cup and saucer, calen- dar of cheerful quotations, or a good box of correspondence cards.
 An Interested Reader: Can you tell me what will bring the 1ustre back to a block satin skirt which has become dull? I have made a new part to it and now wish to renew the appearance of the rest of the troubles me: I have made up silk comforter and the cotton bat must have been damp and musty. for there is now a decidedly musty odor about it even though I have stunned it well and warmed it at the register
 Answer: Here is a mixture which renews the 1ustre of silk, and 1t is said to be equally successful with to an inconspicuous portion of your skirt, to try it out. Dissolve one ta- blespoon of cooking soda in l quart of cold water and sponge thes ilk, possible Then take one quart of water and add ? tablespoons of household ammonia to it. and sponge the silk again with this. Dry and
 
 the mouldy cotton inside your silk comforter, for you will never have any satisfaction from trying to reno vate 1t. Burn it up, expose the in side of the silk covering well to the sunlight Sunlight kills mould) then put new, dry cotton inside.
 Constant Reader: "I have just finished my guest room and it is done in French gray, the furniture and woodwork. But it has no closet, so where will my guests hang their clothes?"
 Answer: If 1t were my guest room, I'm buy a secondhand old fashioned black walnut wardrobe the kind our grandmot others used, which are very high, broad and mass i've, with doors. I would wash this well, then enamel it in French gray. ToIlloIrow-A Good Christmas Gift
 for the Housekeeper. All inquiries addressed to Miss Kirk man in care of the 's'Eficient House. keeping'' department will be an- sTered in these columns in their turn. This requires considerable time, however, owing to the great number received. So if a personal or quicker reply is desired, a stamped and SeIf- addressed envelope must be enclosed with the question.-The Editor.