Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — THINGS WORTH KNOWING. [ARTICLE]

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

In sweeping carpets use wet newspapers wrung nearly dry and torn ' into pieces. The paper collect the dust and does not soil the carpet. A carpet (particularly a dark carpet) often looks dusty when it does not really need swamping. Wring out a sponge quite dry into warm water, into which you have put a few drops of ammonia, and wipe off the dust. The ammonia will brighten it wonderfully. To clean sofa coverings wash them first with warm water and soap, rubbing the cover (which need not K be removed) with a flannel rag dipped into the suds; then, before they are dry sponge them over with a strong solution of salt and water, in which a small quantity of oxgall has been mixed. Allow the air to blow through the room and the furniture covering will soon dry, while the colors and freshness of the articles will be restored. □To exterminate fleas take half a pint of Persian insect powder, half a .pound of borax, one ounce of oil of cedar and quarter of enounce pennyroyal. Close the room tight, sprinkle this mixture on carpet., furniture and beds, and keep closed Over day and night. To remove grease from silk goods wash away with ether. To remove stearine, in all cases use pure To remove iron spots and black ink from white goods use hot oxalic acid; dilute muriatic acjd with little fragments of tin. On fast dyed cotton and woolen fabrics, citric aoid cautiously and repeatedly applied; on silks nothing, as it is impossible to remove said stains from them.