|TO remove oils, varnishes, resins, tar, oyster soup, currant jelly, and
other selections from the bill of fare, use benzine, soap and chloroform
cautiously with whitewash brush and garden hose. Then hang on wood pile
to remove the pungent effluvia of the benzine.
To clean ceilings that have been smoked by kerosene lamps, or the
fragrance from fried salt pork, remove the ceiling, wash thoroughly with
borax, turpentine and rain water, then hang on the clothes line to dry.
Afterward pulverize and spread over the pie plant bed for spring wear.
To remove starch and roughness from flatirons, hold the iron on a large
grindstone for twenty minutes or so, then wipe off carefully with a rag.
To make this effective, the grindstone should be in motion while the
iron is applied. Should the iron still stick to the goods when in use,
spit on it.
To soften water for household purposes, put in an ounce of quicklime in
a certain quantity of water. If it is not sufficient, use less water or
more quicklime. Should the immediate lime continue to remain deliberate,
lay the water down on a stone and pound it with a base ball club.
To give relief to a burn, apply the white of an egg. The yolk of the egg
may be eaten or placed on the shirt bosom, according to the taste of
the person. If the burn should occur on a lady, she may omit the last
instruction.
To wash black silk stockings, prepare a tub of lather, composed of tepid
rain water and white soap, with a little ammonia. Then stand in the tub
till dinner is ready. Roll in a cloth to dry. Do not wring, but press
the water out. This will necessitate the removal of the stockings.
If your hands are badly chapped, wet them in warm water, rub them all
over with Indian meal, then put on a coat of glycerine and keep them
in your pockets for ten days. If you have no pockets convenient, insert
them in the pocket of a friend.
An excellent liniment for toothache or neuralgia, is made of sassafras,
oil of organum and a half ounce of tincture of capsicum, with half a
pint of alcohol. Soak nine yards of red flannel in this mixture, wrap it
around the head and then insert the head in a haystack till death comes
to your relief.
To remove scars or scratches from the limbs of a piano, bathe the limb
in a solution of tepid water and tincture of sweet oil. Then apply
a strip of court plaster, and put the piano out on the lawn for the
children to play horse with.
Woolen goods may be nicely washed if you put half an ox gall into two
gallons of tepid water. It might be well to put the goods in the water
also. If the mixture is not strong enough, put in another ox gall.
Should this fail to do the work, put in the entire ox, reserving the
tail for soup. The ox gall is comparatively useless for soup, and should
not be preserved as an article of diet.