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Finally, I found that bread. Lucy Lethbridge explains what to do with her in "Mind Your Manors", a collection of proposals for the original British households is maintained. "Pressing pieces of sliced white bread, sausage balls in cracks or dusty baseboards screwed frame it collects dust not get dusters, fingers or pins," he wrote.
This agreement called white bread, woman Lethbridge "not expensive stapled, but poor in nutrients," is also good, he said, to clean the books. one is forced to the corners of the substance in the spine of a book and then with a damp cloth to complete its coverage to the order.
Mind Your Manors
By Lucy Lethbridge
Norton, 114 pages, $ 22.95
Woman Lethbridge is a British journalist and author of the famous "Down history of Britain from the nineteenth century to the present." "Mind Your Manors" is obtained very entertaining with the advice from cleaning staff, guides and textbooks of the last two centuries. There are also charming illustrations, including drawings of 46 different types of dusters and cleaners 1900 Edwardian ads represent women with pile of clothes smiling, with the promise that "borax Wash extract against a pleasure." I doubt that he had, rubber gloves did not notice in general use until the First World War came.
This New York (and there are many of them) who are paranoid about bugs find useful tips here. Woman Lethbridge cites a 1770 manual entitled "Vermin-Killer (with complete and necessary family book)." Proponents author "anonymous wash their head joints out of bed in the cooked sagebrush in the urine or burning sulfur under the bed or slather room with bowel in water rabbit or a mixture of vinegar and gall cooked ox".
If these repellents do not work But Mrs. Lethbridge resist "as a last resort, you could even hang dead skin of a newborn baby in his room Bear" one of the suggestions of the author. "Most people prefer to live with the chips with the blood of badgers anoint to keep them away."
All lists woman Lethbridge tips for pests are not as draconian eliminate. She writes that girl in big houses with kitchens were full of black beetles, ants and cockroaches of sugar and water to drown shells on the ground for insects when they fell. My grandmother in Dorset has a similar trap for wasps on their windowsills held in summer: sugar jars with wax paper covered perforated in place by a rubber band. At the end of each day, she had counted corpses floating terrible taste.
As for cockroaches woman Lethbridge has its own advanced: She says she is very partial cucumber. If at night a bit on the kitchen floor left ", he sends them into a stupor, which makes it easier to stomp in the morning."
Today, to keep fighting our own houses or apartments, we use many toxic chemicals. This, Mrs. Lethbridge said, is not necessary. The tea leaves can be used to freshen the carpet; Rhubarb compote to remove stains. crumpled newspaper is better than any window cleaning cloths.
But the star among all household cleaning purposes is white vinegar. Woman Lethbridge wrote. "A dozen different types of chemical sprays, for bathrooms, for kitchens, for wooden furniture, for windows, computer monitors, can be happy replaced by a gallon holding tank with distilled vinegar" (cost about 3) $ you can even rub around the hinge a door washing machine mold to prevent.
If you now take for cleaning plan your quilt that the warm weather has arrived, Mrs Lethbridge has a tip to save money. "It was a common practice in Scotland, although occur in the nineteenth century, in wooden shoes wear washing with feet," he wrote. Today it is washed ceiling, the most effective way barefoot to get in a bathtub with feet. No need to worry about clogs.
-mme. Hodgson is the author of "It seemed like a good idea at the time: My Adventures in Food and the Life".
