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SETTING HENS.--Set hens in the evening; and arrange the coop, if possible, so
that it will be dark and quiet for two or three weeks.
TO KEEP PEARLS BRILLIANT.--Keep in common, dry magnesia, instead of the cotton
wool used in jewel cases, and they will never lose their brilliancy.
DIAMOND CEMENT. --Dissolve thirteen ounces of white glue in a tin dish
containing a pint and a half soft water (set in a kettle containing boiling
water); when the glue is dissolved, stir in three ounces of white lead, and boil
till well mixed; remove from fire, and when cool, add half pint alcohol; bottle
immediately, and keep well corked.--W. F. Wilcox.
COCOA BUTTER.--Apply, at night, to face and hands, and wash off in the morning.
This is excellent for the skin, and keeps it soft and clear.
CHAPPED HANDS.--Grind one side of a pumice stone; wet, and, with the smooth
side, rub the hands. If badly chapped, oil them at night, and dry in by the
fire; or, at night, wet the hands, and rub a little honey over them, drying it
in before the fire.
SQUEAKING BOOTS.--Drive a peg into the middle of the sole.
TO SCOUR TINS.--Use whiting moistened with kerosene.
TO CLEAN STEEL.--Unslaked lime cleans small articles of polished steel--like
buckles, etc.
TO REMOVE FINGER-RING.--Hold hand in very cold water.
TO CLEAN BLACK KIDS. --Add a few drops of ink to a tea-spoonful of salad oil;
rub on with a feather, and dry in the sun.
FOR IVY POISON.--Apply sweet oil.
MOROCCO LEATHER--May be restored with a varnish of white of an egg.
RUST IN IRON.--Kerosene oil will remove it.
SEALING WAX --Is made of two parts of beeswax and one of resin, melted together.
TO CLEAN WELLS OF FOUL AIR.--Throw down a peck of unslaked lime. The heat
produced carries out the foul air with a rush.
TO HARDEN THE WOOD.--Cut the wood in the shape desired, and boil eight minutes
in olive oil.
TO BLOW OUT A CANDLE.--If a candle is blown out by an upward instead of a
downward current of air, the wick will not smoulder down. Hold the candler
higher than the mouth in blowing it out.
COCHINEAL COLORING. --To a pound of wool take two gallons of rain water, one
ounce cream tartar, one and a half ounces cochineal, two ounces solution tin,
one-fourth ounce tumeric; first, put the cold water in a copper kettle, and let
it boil, put in the cream tartar; in five minutes, the cochineal; in five
minutes, solution tin; in five minutes, tumeric; in five minutes, yarn; boil an
hour; stir all the time. Rinse in cold water.
CEMENT FOR RUBBER OR LEATHER. --Dissolve one ounce of gutta percha in one-half
pound chloroform. Clean the parts to be cemented; cover each with solution, and
let them dry twenty or thirty minutes; warm each part in the flame of the
candle, and press very firmly together till dry.
RAZOR STRAPS--Are kept in order by applying a few drops of sweet oil. After
using a strap, the razor takes a keen edge by passing it over the palm of the
warm hand; dipping it in warm water also makes it cut more keenly.
UNFERMENTED WINE FOR COMMUNION. --Weigh the grapes, pick from the stems, put in
a porcelain kettle, add very little water, and cook till stones and pulp
separate; press and strain through a thick cloth, return juice to kettle, and
add three pounds sugar to every ten pounds grapes; heat to simmering, bottle
hot, and seal. This makes one gallon, and is good.
SHINGLES.--Dip well-seasoned shingles in lime, wash and dry before laying, and
they will last longer and never take on moss.
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