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not too hot. Fourth, apply a mixture of equal parts of alcohol, gin, and
ammonia.
Candle grease yields to a warm iron. Place a piece of blotting or other
absorbing paper under the absorbing fabric; put a piece of the paper also on the
spot, apply the warm iron to the paper, and as soon as a spot of grease appears,
move the paper and press again until the spot disappears. Lard will remove wagon
grease. Rub the spot with the lard as if washing it, and when it is well out,
wash in the ordinary way with soap and water until thoroughly cleansed.
To make linen beautifully white, prepare the water for washing by putting into
every ten gallons a large handful of powdered borax; or boil with the clothes
one teaspoonful of spirits of turpentine.
Fruit stains may be taken out by boiling water. Place the material over a basin
or other vessel, and pour the boiling water from the kettle over the stains.
Pure water, cold or hot, mixed with acids, serves for rinsing goods in order to
remove foreign and neutral bodies which cover the color. Steam softens fatty
matters, and thus facilitates their removal by reagents.
Sulphuric acid may be used in certain cases, particularly for brightening and
raising greens, reds, yellows, etc., but it must be diluted with at least one
hundred times its weight of water and more in cases of delicate shades.
CEMENT FOR CHINA AND GLASS.
To half a pint of milk put an equal quantity of vinegar in order to curdle it;
then separate the curd from the whey, and mix the whey with the whites of four
or five eggs, beating the whole well together. When it is well-mixed, add a
little quick-lime, through a sieve, until it has acquired the consistence of a
thick paste. With this cement broken vessels and cracks of all kinds may be
mended. It dries quickly, and resists the action of fire and water.
Another: Into a thick solution of gum arabic, stir plaster of Paris until the
mixture assumes the consistency of cream, apply with a brush to the broken edges
of china and join together. In three days the article cannot be broken in the
same place. The whiteness of the cement adds to its value.
CLEANSING SINKS.
To purify greasy sinks and pipes, pour down a pailful of boiling water in which
three or four pounds of washing soda have been dissolved. A disinfectant is
prepared in the same way, using copperas. Copperas is a poison and should not be
left about.
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