ay and the eggs destroyed by this
means. Spots may be renovated by the use of ox-gall or ammonia and
water.

A good way to brighten a carpet is to put half a tumbler of spirits
of turpentine in a basin of water, and dip your broom in it and sweep
over the carpet once or twice and it will restore the color and
brighten it up until you would think it new. Another good way to clean
old carpets is to rub them over with meal; just dampen it a very
little and rub the carpet with it and when perfectly dry, sweep over
with meal. After a carpet is thoroughly swept, rub it with a cloth
dipped in water and ammonia; it will brighten the colors and make it
look like new.

TO TAKE OUT MACHINE GREASE.

Cold water, a tablespoonful of ammonia and soap, will take out machine
grease where other means would not answer on account of colors
running, etc.

TO WASH FLANNELS.

The first thing to consider in washing flannels so that they retain
their size, is that the articles be _washed_ and _rinsed_ in water of
the _same temperature_, that is, about as warm as the hands can bear,
and not allowed to cool between. The water should be a strong suds.
Bub through two soapy waters; wring them out, and put into plenty of
clear, clean, warm water to rinse. Then into another of the same
temperature, blued a little. Wring, shake them well and hang up. Do
not take out of this warm water and hang out in a freezing air, as
that certainly tends to shrink them. It is better to dry them in the
house, unless the sun shines. They should dry _quickly_. Colored
flannels should never be washed in the same water after white clothes,
or they will be covered, when dry, with lint; better be washed in a
water for themselves. In washing worsteds, such as merino dress goods,
pursue the same course, only do not wring them hard; shake, hang them
up and let drain. While a little damp, bring in and press smoothly on
the wrong side with as hot an iron as can be used without scorching
the goods.

Flannels that have become yellow from being badly washed, may be
nicely whitened by soaking them two or three hours in a lather made of
one-quarter of a pound of soft soap, two tablespoonfuls of powdered
borax and two tablespoonfuls of carbonate of ammonia, dissolved in
five or six gallons of water.

TO STARCH, FOLD AND IRON SHIRTS.

To three tablespoonfuls of dry, fine starch allow a quart of water.
First wet the starch smooth in a little cold water in a tin pan, pu