. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . , and removedto another room. Remove the furniture. The upholsteryshould be bruslied, cleaned, and well aired. Look for moths,and if any traces of them are found, they should bedestroyed. This same thorough system should be continued throughthe living-rooms. As each room is cleaned, return the fur-niture, and keep it closed while cleaning other rooms. 180 Home and Health Defer not till to-morrow what may be done to-day. KITCHEN AN
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . , and removedto another room. Remove the furniture. The upholsteryshould be bruslied, cleaned, and well aired. Look for moths,and if any traces of them are found, they should bedestroyed. This same thorough system should be continued throughthe living-rooms. As each room is cleaned, return the fur-niture, and keep it closed while cleaning other rooms. 180 Home and Health Defer not till to-morrow what may be done to-day. KITCHEN AND PANTRY The work of cleaning the kitchen and pantry is quitetedious, particularly if they have been in any way pantry is the placewhere dirt is liable to ac-cumulate and where unsan-itary conditions are mostlikely to exist. If the wallsand all the shelves andcupboards have been wellpainted or varnished, asthey should be, the clean-ing will not be so article should bemoved, and the walls,shelves, cupboards, anddishes not in every-day useshould be thoroughlycleaned. Every unneces-sary or worthless articleshould be disposed of, and. Painting Pemtry Shelves if necessary, the walls and woodwork should have a fresh coat of paint. REPAIRS As the rooms are thus cleaned, one by one, the necessaryrepairs should be made while each room is empty. Repairsshould first be made in the plaster; then, after thoroughlycleaning the room and allowing the dust to settle, the nec-essary painting or varnishing should be done. This shouldbe allowed to thoroughly dry before the carpets and otherfurnishings are put in place. FOR. WASHING PAINT A useful preparation for washing paint is made asfollows:— House Cleaning 181 Love makes labor light. // «%^. Dissolve in a bucketful of water four tablespoonfulsof soda and an equal quantity of soft soap and turpentine. Apply this to the dirty paint witha flannel, wipe dry, and thenrub with a leather. This methodleaves a nice, glo
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