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cupboard doors, all your drawers and boxes, hang thereft of your 
bedding on the chairbacks, lay the feather-bed on a table, then 
fet a large broad earthen pan in the middle of the room, and in 
that fet a chaffing dlfh that (bands on feet, full of charcoal well 
lighted. If your room is very bad, a pound of rolled brimftone^ 
if only a few, half a pound. Lay it on the charcoal, and get 
out of the room as quick as poffibly you can, or it will take away 
your breath. Shut your door clofe, with the blanket over it, and 
be fure to fet it fo as nothing can catch fire. If you have any 
India pepper, throw if in wirh the brimftone. You muft take 
care to have the door open, whilft you lay in the brimftone, that 
you may get out as foon as poffible* Don’t open the door under 
fix faou s, and then you muft be very careful how you go in to 
open the windows | therefore let the doors (land open an hour 
before you open the windows. Then bruih and fweep your 
room very clean, wafc it well .with boiling lee, or boiling wa¬ 
ter, with a little unflacked lime in k, get a pint of fpirits of 
wine, a pint of fplrifcof turpentine, and an ounce of camphire ; 
iliake all well together, and with a bunch of feathers wafh your 
.bedftead very well, and fprinkle the reft over the feather-bed, 
and about the wainfcot and- room. 
If you find great fwarms about the room, and fame not dead, 
do this over again ; and you will be quite clear. Every fpring 
and fall, wafh your bedftead with half a pint, and you will never 
have a bugg ; but if you find any come'in with new goods, or 
boxes, &c. only wafh your bedftead, and fprinkle all over your 
bedding and bed, and you will be dear ; but be fare to do it 
as foon as you find one. If your room is very bad, it will be 
well to paint the room after the brimftone is burnt in it. 
This never fails, if rightly done. 
An effectual way to clear the bedftead of bpggs. 
TAKE quiekfilver, and mix it well in a mortar with the white 
of an egg till the quiekfilver is all well mixt, and there is no blub¬ 
bers; then beat up fome white of an egg very fine, and mix with 
the quiekfilver till it is like a fine ointment, th'en with a feather 
anoint the bedftead all over in every creek and corner, and about 
the lacing and binding, where you thinkthereis any. Dothistwo 
or three times: it is a certain cure, and will not fpoil any thing. 
Dire Elions to the houfe-maid. 
ALWAYS when you fweep a room, throw a little wet fand 
all over it, and that will gather up all the flew and duft, pre¬ 
vent it from rifing, clean the boards, and fave the bedding, pic¬ 
tures, and all ether furniture from duft and dirt, 
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