Take up the carpet, let it be well beaten, then laid down, and brushed on both sides with a hand brush. Turn it the right side upwards, and scour it with oxgall, and soap and water, very clean, and dry it with linen cloths.
To take Stains out of Marble.
Mix unslacked lime, in finest powder, with the stronger soap lye, pretty thick; and instantly, with a painter’s brush, lay it on the whole of the marble. In two months time wash it off perfectly clean; then have ready a fine thick lather of soft soap, boiled in soft water; dip a brush in it, and scour the marble with powder, not as common cleaning. This will, by very good rubbing, give a beautiful polish. Clear off the soap, and finish with a smooth hard brush till the end be effected.
To clean Calico Furniture, when taken down for the Summer.
Shake off the loose dust, then lightly brush with a small longhaired furniture brush; after which wipe it closely with clean flannels, and rub it with dry bread.
If properly done, the curtains will look nearly as well as at first.
Fold in large parcels, and put carefully by.
While the furniture remains up, it should be preserved from the sun and air as much as possible, which injure delicate colours; and the dust may be blown off with bellows.
To preserve Furs and Woollen from Moth.
Let the former be occasionally combed while in use, and the latter be brushed and shaken. When not wanted, dry them first, let them be cool, then mix among them bitter apples from the apothecary’s, in small muslin bags, sewing them in several folds of linen, carefully turned in at the edges.