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rinse in cold water, dry first in an old handkerchief, and then rub with buck or
chamois skin. Their freshness and brilliancy when thus cleaned cannot be
surpassed by any compound used by jewelers.
TO CLEAN SILVER PLATE.
Wash well in strong, warm soap-suds, rinse and wipe dry with a dry, soft cloth;
then mix as much hartshorn powder as will be required into a thick paste, with
cold water; spread this over the silver, with a soft cloth, and leave it for a
little time to dry. When perfectly dry, brush it off with a clean soft cloth, or
brush and polish it with a piece of chamois skin. Hartshorn is one of the best
possible ingredients for plate powder for daily use. It leaves on the silver a
deep, dark polish, and at the same time does not injure it. Whiting, dampened
with liquid ammonia, is excellent also.
TO REMOVE STAINS FROM MARBLE.
Mix together one-half pound of soda, one-half pound of soft soap, and one pound
of whiting. Boil them until they become as thick as paste, and let it cool.
Before it is quite cold, spread it over the surface of the marble and leave it
at least a whole day. Use a soft water to wash it off, and rub it well with soft
cloths. For a black marble, nothing is better than spirits of turpentine.
Another paste answers the same purpose: Take two parts of soda, one of
pumice-stone, and one of finely-powdered chalk. Sift these through a fine sieve,
and mix them into a paste with water. Rub this well all over the marble, and the
stains will be removed; then wash it with soap and water, and a beautiful bright
polish will be produced.
TO WHITEN WALLS.
To whiten walls, scrape off all the old whitewash, and wash the walls with a
solution of two ounces of white vitriol to four gallons of water. Soak a quarter
of a pound of white glue in water for twelve hours; strain and place in a tin
pail in a kettle of boiling water. When melted, stir in the glue eight pounds of
whiting and water enough to make it as thick as common whitewash. Apply evenly
with a good brush. If the walls are very yellow, blue the water slightly by
squeezing in it a flannel blue-bag.
Before kalsomining a wall, all cracks should be plastered over. Use plaster of
Paris. Kalsomine may be colored easily by mixing with it yellow ochre, Spanish
brown, indigo; squeeze through a bag into the water, etc.
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