and
kills the eggs and larvae. Follow this up by washing the floor with
hot borax water, dry thoroughly, sprinkle with black pepper, and retack
the carpet. Sometimes small pieces of cotton batting dipped in
turpentine and slipped under the edges of the carpet will keep the
moths away. If there are cracks at the juncture of baseboard and
floor, pour in benzine and fill with plaster of Paris. Three-ply or
ingrain carpets can be steamed and ironed without removing the tacks.

CLEANING MATTINGS AND WOODWORK

Mattings must be lifted, shaken, swept, wiped off with a cloth dampened
in borax water, and left on the lawn to sun. No soap should be used on
linoleum, and but little water. Clean by rubbing with a damp cloth
till no soil comes off, and polish with a very little linseed oil. All
upholstered furniture should be taken out, covered with a cloth, and
thoroughly beaten with a rattan, shaking the cloth as it becomes dusty.
Before rugs and carpets go down, walls, woodwork, and floors are
cleaned. Walls, if painted, are washed with hot water containing a
little kerosene, a square yard at a time, which is dried before moving
on to the next area. Rubbing down with the inside of the crust of
bread a day old will clean papered walls. Painted woodwork is best
cleaned with whiting mixed to a thick cream with cold water, rubbed on
with a cloth wrung out of hot water, following the grain of the wood.
Wash off the whiting with a second cloth, rub dry, and polish with
flannel. Painted walls may also be treated in this way, beginning at
the top and working down. If soap is preferred, use the suds, rubbing
the soap itself only on very much soiled spots. Kerosene in the water
obviates the necessity for soap. Enameled paint requires only a cloth
wrung out of hot water, followed by a rubbing with a dry cloth. Avoid
using water on hardwood, boiled oil or turpentine and oil being best
for woodwork and floors. Now is the time to scrub floors, if pine,
with hot borax suds, and to rewax or varnish hardwood floors if they
require it.

CLEANING BEDS

Beds come to pieces and go out of doors, where the slats are washed
with carbolic-acid water, and springs and woodwork thoroughly brushed
and sprinkled with corrosive sublimate and alcohol, if traces of bugs
are found. If the beds are enameled, they are washed entire, with the
exception of the brass trimmings, with hot water and ammonia, and wiped
dry. Bedclothes, mattre