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Before applying the broom, scatter over the carpet the refuse tea-leaves from the tea-pot. These them in the air a few hours to take away the smell of camphene. 1 gallon is enough for each curtain width. Next roll the curtains in half-dry sheets to damp them; take them out; brush and rub them; then iron, with a should be set apart and saved in a pot kept damp cloth laid over them, and they will look for the purpose, squeezing the water out thor- like new. oughly in the hand. First rub the leaves 451. To Clean Worsted Reps. Worsinto the carpet with the broom, and then ted rep sofas, and worsted furniture of any sweep as usual. This will prevent dust and kind, are freshened by dusting damp Indian brighten the colors.

Indian meal is recom- meal over them, and rubbing off with a stiff mended for this purpose by many experienced brush. Dry bran is said to answer the same housekeepers. purpose, or very light, dry snow, not suffered to melt on the surface. A large sheet should be spread under each piece of furniture, as it is cleaned, to catch the falling litter. 452. To Clean Table-Covers of Cotton and Worsted, Silk and Worsted, or

448. To Clean Colored Silks, Moreens, Chintzes, and Printed Cottons. Colored or black silks, moreens, printed cottons, and chintzes, may be cleaned, without injury to their colors, by potato liquor. Grate raw potatoes to a fine pulp; add water in the pro- Printed Cloth. Dissolve 1 bar of the best portion of 1 pint to 1 pound of potatoes; pass mottled soap in 4 gallons of scalding water, the liquid through a coarse sieve into a vessel, with 1 pound of pearlash in it. Have 3 tubs and allow it to remain till the fine white ready, and put in the first, 1 pail of cold wastarch subsides to the bottom. Pour off the ter and 3 gallons of soap liquor; in the second, clear liquor, which is to be used for cleaning. 1 pail of cold water and 2 gallons of soap li- Spread the article to be cleaned upon a table, quor; and in the third, 2 pails of cold water which should be covered with a linen cloth; dip a sponge in the liquor, and apply it until the dirt is removed. Then rinse the article in clean cold water several times. and 1 gallon of soap liquor. In another tub have 6 pails of cold water, with a table-spoonful of oil of vitriol in it. If the cover is cotton and worsted, wash and wring it through the three soap-waters; rinse it five minutes in the vitriol tub, and wring out of cold, clear water; fold it up smoothly to drain, and hang

449. To Clean Old Tapestry on the Wall. Old tapestry is cleaned on the wall, beginning at the top. Melt a bar of good common soap in a gallon of water, and put 1 it to dry without wringing. quart of it in a gallon of cold water. A For a silk and worsted cover use three soapclothes brush of fine broom straw or long waters; rub it well, and, instead of the vitbristles is best to dust with; a soft brush, riol, put a pound of common salt in 2 pails of water, and work the cloth well in this. Rinse it in 2 cold waters after the salted one, and hang it to dry in a warm room. piece of wash-leather, some flannels, and dry sheets are also needed. Brush all dust from the tapestry first, cleaning the corners well.

Dip a flannel in the suds, squeeze it slightly, rub the tapestry to a lather, and brush well with a soft brush. Wring the flannel out of the soap, and rub the tapestry dry with it and wash-leather; lastly wiping the whole as dry as possible with a sheet, as it must not be rinsed. Melt 4 ounces of tartaric acid in a two cold waters, with a table-spoonful of vitpint of boiling water, and add to it 2 gallons of clean water. Squeeze a clean sponge in this acid, and rub it well into the place just cleaned and dried; then finish with the dry sheet at once before going to the next yard of A printed cloth wash through three soapliquors; if one has a variety of table-cloths, of different mixtures, they may be put through the same suds in the order given in these directions, using different rinses for each. Give the printed cloth, after the last soap-liquor, riol in each; after these, a cold, clear water.

Fold and drain it, and dry quickly in a warm room, or the colors will run into one another.

To press table-cloths, lay them under a damp sheet, and iron with a heavy iron. surface. Renew the suds and rinsing water 453. Το Clean White Jean Boots. If frequently, as well as the towels, flannels, you have not boot-trees, stuff the boot as full etc., for everything must be used clean. A as possible with common cotton wadding or good fire should be kept in the room when old rags, to prevent any creases; then mix tapestry is cleaned. When dry, rub a lump some pipe-clay with water to rather a stiff of pipe-clay well into it, and brush it out paste, wash the jean boots with soap and wawith a good clothes brush. This takes the ter and a nail brush, using as little le water as soap out and brightens the colors. Worsted possible to get the dirt off. When they look work may be cleaned in this way. tolerably clean, rub the pipe-clay with a flannel well over them and hang them to dry. | White silk requires a little blue in the water. When dry, beat out the superfluous clay with This receipt is an excellent one. the hand and rub them till they look smooth.

Flake white may also be used.