REVIVE YOUR CARPET

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19302, 1 October 1932, Page 15

REVIVE YOUR CARPET

‘ Why, you've had your carpet re dyed!" exclaimed Stella when she cam to see me a few days ago. "Was it ver expensive?” "It cost exactly twopence." I replie laughing. "If you look carefully you’:

see it’s not been to the dyers’, otherwise the pretty beige border would have been dyed, too." “Tell me about it," said Stella eagerly- " Well, the blue centre of the carpet i was so badly laded that it looked positively shabby, and had. I not been so fend of the beige border I should have sent it to the dyers’ ages ago. Then one day I had a brain-wave. I bought a saxe blue dye the exact shade of my carpet, and mixed it in a basin with a breakfast-cupful of hot water. “I next put on a pair of rubber gloves to protect my hands, and taking a piece of flannel I had previously dipped in warm water, I dipped it in the dye until it was soaked with it, and then wrung it out' tightly. Then I rubbed the carpet over with the damp flannel, doing a small piece at a time, and in a very few minutes I had done the whole carpet. “The flannel must not be too wet, otherwise the result will be patchy. "This has been done two months now. and at the end of the summer I shall do it again for the winter.” "Thanks for a most valuable hint. I think I'll go now and on my way home buy a rose-pink dye and do my bedroom carpet straightaway.” To prevent rust dissolve some vaseline in petrol and apply to the mattress with a brush. The petrol evaporates quickly and leaves a thin film of vaseline over the wires. It is perhaps hardly necessary to mention that petrol, being very inflammable, should on no account be used in a room containing a fire or naked