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Show RAG CARPETS. In nine cases out of ten, one who lacks energy to make a rag carpet will not have the means to buy a store carpet even at 50 cents per yard, when it must be cash in hand; and then, if purchased, it is a poor thing, and will not, with the best of care, endure the wear of every-day use for one season. But even that would pay by giving the house a more habitable appearance, for a house with bare floors, though it be ever so well furnished otherwise, looks naked and barn like. But a rag carpet pays better in an ordinary farm house, because it wears better and is better adapted to the circumstances of the family, and corresponds with the usually plain furniture. It pays by subduing the noise caused by the tramp of boots, the moving of chairs the rattling of dishes, and in softening the tones of voices. Indeed a rag-carpet has a softening and refining influence upon every member of the family. Even those rough boys forbear to scuffle in the house, because it will injure the carpet that mother worked so hard to make, and they hate to see the pleasant room grow shabby. Boys as well as girls like to have their home look cheery and "stylish," and thus the rag carpet wears much longer than the matron imagined it would. |