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For chopped lips............ 296
Hungary water............... 296
Honey water................. 296
Lavender water.............. 296
An excellent water to pre- vent hair from falling off, and to thicken it......
296
Black paper for drawing patterns.................... 297Black ink, two ways of
making...................... 297
To cement broken china 297
An excellent stucco, which will adhere to wood- work........................
297
Mason's washes for stuc- co : blue and yellow ....... 298
Roman cement or mortar for outside plaistering, or brick-work...............
298
To take stains, iron- moulds, and mildew out of linen................ 299
To make flannels keep their colour, and not shrink...................... 300
To preserve furs and wool- en from moths............... 300
To dye the linings of fur- niture, 300. Buff, or salmon-colour, accord- ing
to the depth of the hue; Pink, 300. Blue 300
To dye gloves, to look like York tan or Limerick, according to the deep- ness
of the dye............. 301
To dye white gloves a beautiful purple............ 301
A liquor to wash old deeds, on paper or parchment, when the writing is
obliterated, or, when sunk, to make it legible.................. 301
To prevent the rotin sheep 301
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To prevent green hay from firing................. 301
To preserve a granary from insects and wea- sels........................ 302
To destroy crickets......... 302
Directions to Servants.
To clean calico furniture when taken down for the summer.................. 302
To clean plate.............. 302
To clean looking-glasses 302
To preserve gilding, and clean it.................... 303
To clean paint.............. 303
To clean paper hangings 303
To give a gloss to fine oak wainscot.................... 304
To give a fine colour to mahogany.................... 304
To take ink out of maho- gany........................ 304
Floor-cloths, 304. To clean them........................ 305
To dust carpets and floors 305
To clean carpets............ 305
To give to boards a beau- tiful appearance............ 305
To extract oil from boards or stone.................... 306
To clean stone stairs and halls....................... 306
To blacken the fronts of stone chinney-pieces 306
To take stains out of marble, 306. Iron stains 306
Two ways of preserving irons from rust............. 307
To take rust out of steel 307
To clean the back of the grate; the inner hearth; and of cast-iron stoves, the
fronts, 307. Another way to clean cast-iron, and black hearths........... 307
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