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To Clean Carpets

Carpets may washed. Finish yard after yard in this way. be cleaned as follows: Take them up rubbing each clean and dry as you go. Keep & good fire in the room to dry the carpet 450. To Clean Silk and Cotton, or thoroughly. If scoured on a frame, nail the Silk and Worsted Damask, Terry, or carpet against the side of a house in the sun Brocatelle Curtains. Silk and cotton, or to dry. This is a tedious, but thorough pro- silk and worsted damask, terry, or brocatelle cess. Hearth rugs may be cleaned in the curtains, are cleaned over a board by scrubsame way, ay, beating and brushing them well, bing with a gallon camphene and a brush, and tacking on a large board before washing. first dipping the curtain into the camphene, Scrub one-sixth of it at a time unless you are then cleaning on the wrong side, and lastly on expeditious, and dry well with an old sheet. the right. Dip it again into the camphene The secret of having carpets look well is to just used, and rinse in the same amount of wash and rinse them thoroughly, without fresh camphene. Let it drain a minute, then soaking them through.

Ingrain, tapestry, wipe it off with a linen or cotton sheet till Brussels, and Turkish carpets are all cleaned all the moisture possible is absorbed, and in this way. Good authorities recommend a brush it with a dry brush of soft hair. Hang tea-cupful of ox-gall to a pail of soap-suds, rinsing with clean water. (See No. 444.)