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Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)

Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 364

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e modern recipe, will give windows a finepolish. But with all due respect for these things, we have always found that cleanwater, and plenty of it, clean dry cloths, and good hard rubbing will have all theeffect desired. If you have carpet down your stairs and upon your landings itshould be taken… … 473 SCRUBBING HINTS. Your passage or hall oilcloth, if of goodthick, but ordinary quality, should be scrubbed with a good stiffscrubbing brush and a good lather of soap and water thus :—Ta.se, sayhalf a yard, or three Quarters to do at a time, scrubwehjvith a latherwhich should be thin, take up…

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