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of the strongest kind, and fill it up with vinegar; put this in each crack of
the bedsteads every morning, until they entirely disappear; never omit to search
the bedsteads longer than a week. It is a good way to fill up all the cracks of
the bedsteads with resin soap. After they are cleaned, move the bed from the
wall and fill up every crack in the plastering with calcined plaster and water,
or putty.
Sometimes bed-bugs are brought in the cleanest houses before the family are
aware of it. When persons return from travelling, the trunks should always be
examined before they are taken into the chambers, or put away; a little care at
the proper time will prevent much trouble. Some persons scald their bedsteads
with boiling vinegar; the acid is said to dissolve the shell of the egg. If
poison is used, great care is necessary.
It is said that lard is good to use on bedsteads that are infested with bugs;
the grease prevents their increase. All the cracks should be filled after the
bedstead has been well searched.
To Clean Floors.
Scour all the spots with soap and sand, then go all over with the long scrubbing
brush, a few boards at a time; rinse it well and wipe it dry. A floor that has
been well cleaned, and dried without being walked on, will keep clean much
longer than one that has been half done; too much soap or ley makes a floor look
yellow.
Bare floors are very pleasant in summer, and when they get a few spots, they can
be taken out with dry white sand, and a shoe-sole, and will not need scrubbing
more than two or three times in a summer.
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