Cleaning and Caring for Carpets

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1885

Cleaning and Caring for Carpets

If brooms are wet in boiling suds once a week they will become very tough, will not cut the carpet, last much longer, and always sweep like a new broom. A very dusty carpet may be cleaned by setting a pail of cold water out by the door, wet the broom in it, knock it to get out all the drops, sweep a yard or so, then wash the broom again as before, and sweep again, being careful to shake all the drops off the broom, and not sweep far at a time. The water may need to be changed once or twice if the carpet is very dusty. Snow sprinkled over a carpet and swept off before it has time to melt is also nice for renovating a soiled carpet. Moistened Indian meal is used with good effect by some. —Sel.