Show COMFORTABLES PILLOWS ETC The Best Way to Renovate Them at Home No doubt the easiest way of cleaning heavy winter bedding and renovating mattresses and pillows is t send them out of the house to be steamed and remade re-made But this is not practicable for all households house-holds Many women feel that on the score of expenses If for no other reason the work must be done in the house Some advise delaying the work to the long clear qulckdrylnj days of suftimer But the most of housekeepers prefer t attend to It in the spring just In the time of spring honsecleanins They do not consider gtgo house vastly sweet while there I soiled bedding i It Very good reasons too have these thorough going dames for their feeling In the matter The waste of the body by exhalation and excretion from the klbr very large during the twentyfour hours and the greater portion of the amount Is lost at night Hence the stuffiness of unalred sleeping rcoms and the heavy fleshy smell of Ill kept beds Hence too the importance of systemtc washing for whatever pertains per-tains to the oed although no sollure Is visible to the eye I is wise to devote the entire day to tho washing of comfortables needing a cleanlnsr since they must be washed sin A dfr eltt gly 1 with Its own succession of freshwaters fresh-waters Set about the work only on a dry sunny day and begin early In the morning for drying advantages I Is a very good thins where the work can all be done out of doors but the majority ma-jority of housekeepers lack space for such a performance I Is customary with many women to simply untack comfortables and wash and replace the cover But this Is not sufficient for hygienic purposes In case this course must be followed the wadding or batting should be spread out in the sunshine for two or three days in the hottest hours Many suppose that the batting is ruined I by fu wet But tt need not be the directed case if the comfortable is treated as here An old fashioned pounder and pounding nigmf g ing barrel lfl l fl is an admirable rt tu for washing comfortables However a thorough thor-ough sousing and squeezing in a large tub through two clean waters each a good light suds a little more than lukewarm luke-warm will erve Handle carefully I Rinse in three waters Hang t dry without with-out wringing as that process is certain to pack and tear the wet batting As soon as the upper side is dry turr t soArh r t1e 1d1ull so that the Lute cJe play full upon the other Treat the comfortable to prolonged I rl upon the line until bonedry Then with a stout rattan dust whip beat it all over on both sides Sun end whip for two or three days and the wadding wad-ding will be almost as light as when new DOWN COMFORTS Comforts stuffed with down are sometimes some-times washed by being spread fiat upon the grass or on a fat roof the corners weighted and scrubbed with hot suds by means of a stiff brush or a linen cloth after rinsing several times by dabbing with very clear water It Is hung to dry and afterwards beaten Borax soap Is used A much better way Is take the covers off and wash them separately Place the down filling Intact in its separate inner cover In a large loose bag of double cheese cloth made with a drawing string about its mouth A longish piece of gas pipe fitted into the spout of a big teakettle tea-kettle will carry hot steam beautifully quite into the middle of the bag of down Or if there be a big iron pot at hand It can be half filled with boiling water a coarse sieve placed on top and the bag of down laid In it and steamed Do not cover I as that will make the down I damp and clammy With either of these processes the first Is the best give the down six hours of sunning after which it is ready to be I made up afresh FEATHER PILLOWS Pillows of down or feathers can be freshened up and cleansed up by running the steam pipe inside through a ripped place In the seam at the end and steaming steam-Ing for half an hour Let the pillow dry thoroughly Then enlarge the opening the breadth of the two hands and baste It firmly to an opening of the same size In anew tick Sufficient will send vigorous the feathers shaking Into and the punching fresh tick r In quite the same fashion one can steam and shift I feather bed A half days steaming Is necessary An old fashioned way was to lay the bedor pillow on a fat surface and scrub the tick with brush and suds rinse and lay In the sun As soon as dry it was sprinkled again and again dried A thunder thun-der storm in which the bed could layout lay-out was considered a godsend This process was kept up for a week Many now consider that exposure to the sun draws out an animal oil from feathers very unpleasant of odor but the effect cannot be much different from and hotair process of drying MATTRESSES Hair mattresses are often scrubbed fresh with hot soapsuds then with cold salt water Afterward they are given a week of sun and air They must of course bo brushed free of dust and lint before being wet I Careful housekeepers have their hair mattresses taken apart as often as once in two years and the hair thoroughly picked Sometimes the mattress Is sent to the furniture stores but oftener a man from the store Is hired tlnto the 1 house an empty room devoted to his use and all the mattresses remade With mattresstwine and needle and grim de I termination it Is not at all Impossible for a woman to accomplish the task herself her-self MARTHA MCULLOCH WILLIAMS |