Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — AROUND THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE HOUSE.

Beat carpets on the wrong side first. ltub whitewash spots with strong vinegar. Rub your hands with salt and lemon juice to remove stains. Rub soft grease over tar and then wash in warm soda water. The tiny red ant is one of the worst of all household pests, and its extermination is exceedingly difficult if not impossible. Pouring kerosene oil into the cracks which they infest will drive them away for awhile, but they will soon return. They may be kept out of sugar buckets by making a broad chalk mark around them about half way up. The insects cannot crawl over the chalk. It is a good thing to put a sauoer of grease by the place where they seem to come from. They will swarm to it, and the grease will hold them. When the saucer is well covered scrape the contents into the tire. Those ants atdeast will not return to make trouble. This operation, repeated every day, will lessen the amount of the plagues, although even this will not exterminate them.