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one ounce of glycerine, one ounce of castile soap and one of spirits of wine.
Dissolve the soap in two quarts of soft water, add the other ingredients. Apply
with a soft sponge, and rub out. Very good for cleaning silks.
To remove the Odor of Onion from fish-kettle and sauce-pans in which they have
been cooked, put wood-ashes or sal soda, potash or lye; fill with water and let
stand on the stove until it boils; then wash in hot suds, and rinse well.
To clean Marble Busts: First free them from all dust, then wash them with very
weak hydrochloric acid. Soap injures the color of marble.
To remove old Putty from Window Frames, pass a red-hot poker slowly over it and
it will come off easily.
Hanging Pictures: The most safe material and also the best, is copper wire, of
the size proportioned to the weight of the picture. When hung the wire is
scarcely visible, and its strength is far superior to cord.
To keep Milk Sweet: Put into a panful a spoonful of grated horse-radish, it will
keep it sweet for days.
To take Rust from Steel Implements or Knives: Rub them well with kerosene oil,
leaving them covered with it a day or so; then rub them hard and well with
finely powdered unslaked lime.
Poison Water: Water boiled in galvanized iron becomes poisonous, and cold water
passed through zinc-lined iron pipes should never be used for cooking or
drinking. Hot water for cooking should never be taken from hot water pipes; keep
a supply heated in kettles.
Scouring Soap for Cotton and Silk Goods: Mix one pound of common soap, half of a
pound of beef-gall and one ounce and a half of Venetian turpentine.
A Paint for Wood or Stone that resists all Moisture: Melt twelve ounces of
resin; mix with it, thoroughly, six gallons of fish oil, and one pound of melted
sulphur. Rub up some ochre or any other coloring substance with a little linseed
oil, enough to give it the right color and thickness. Apply several coats of the
hot composition with a brush. The first coat should be very thin.
To Ventilate a Room: Place a pitcher of cold water on a table in your room and
it will absorb all the gases with which the room is filled from the respiration
of those eating or sleeping in the apartment. Very few realize how important
such purification is for the health of the family, or, indeed, understand or
realize that there can be any impurity in the rooms; yet in a few hours a
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