TO CLEAN A CARPET.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18248, 5 August 1921, Page 2

TO CLEAN A CARPET.

Choose a good dry day, when the I windows and door of the room may be left open. You will require two pails of water —one hot and one cold. A cake of Chiver’s carpet soap, a sofa flannel and some dry clothes. Wring the flannel out of the hot water, and wet a portion of the carpet with it —about a yard. Now rub the wet part with the rake of soap, and with the flannel dipped in the hot water rub the soap well in to the carpet. In an instant you will note how clean and bright the result is. Rinse with the- cold water, using a fresh cloth or flannel for it, and then rub as dry as you can with the cloths. Proceed in this way until the carpet has been done all over; then leave the door and window open for the sun and wind to finish the drying process. Every now and then you might lift a portion of the carpet, which is a square, a"hd not nailed down, so as to let a current of air pass underneath it.