How To Brighten Carpets

To Brighten Carpets, the ammonia and water mentioned before, wiped over an entire carpet, is useful. It is necessary to wring out the cloth frequently and get a fresh supply of the solution.

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Sprinkle a pound of damp salt over the surface and sweep off.

Save the ravelings when putting a new carpet down; they will be very useful to mend with when it begins to wear.

How To Take Out Grease Spots From Carpets

Cover the spots with fresh buckwheat, removing it as fast as it absorbs the grease and applying fresh until the spots disappear.

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Kerosene oil spilled upon a carpet will often entirely disappear by evaporation if the room is closed and kept from dust. If the spot still remains, a thick coating of powdered French chalk should be spread over it and heated occasionally by laying a brown paper over it and pressing with a hot iron.

Discolored Spots

Discolored Spots on Carpet can be frequently restored by rubbing with a sponge dipped in ammonia diluted with water; clothing the same. Ox-gall is useful for same purpose.

Soot on Carpets, falling from an open chimney, may be swept up without the slightest trouble by sprinkling it lavishly with salt at first and then sweeping.

Stair Carpet Pads

Stair Carpet Pads should be made by folding Waste cotton or pieces of old quilts in newspapers; have them a little shorter than the carpet is wide. Put them over the edge just where the foot naturally strikes the front of the stair. It will preserve the carpet and deaden the sound of footsteps. Old pieces of carpeting, doubled, are very good for this purpose. If the stair carpet is a little longer than the stairs, it can be moved up or down at different times so as to last longer.

Furniture Polish

Take 4 ounces of alcohol, 4 ounces of boiled oil, 1 ounce of Japan dryer, and 1 ounce of benzine. Mix all and shake well while using. This removes all foreign substances, at the same time gives a fine polish. Bub dry with a woolen cloth. This recipe sells regularly for seventy-five cents.

Furniture Polish, (II), must be made use of before the furniture is brought back to the room. Any of these given below are reliable: 1st. Mix equal parts of vinegar, spirits of turpentine and sweet oil in a bottle. Apply with a flannel cloth and polish afterward with a piece of chamois-skin or silk. It is better than a coat of varnish and will remove spots also. 2nd. Ten cents worth of bees-wax melted in a tin-cup in a hot oven; add to this 2 ounces of turpentine and let cool. Apply briskly to the furniture and polish with an old silk handkerchief. 3rd. A little kerosene rubbed into furniture with a flannel improves the color and polishes it. The odor quickly evaporates.

Black Walnut

Black Walnut furniture may be cleaned and polished with the following mixture: ½ pint warm strong coffee, 1 tablespoonful linseed oil (boiled). Apply with flannel; polish with a dry flannel. Great improvement.