A bachelors cupboard

TO CLEAN Hair brushes and clothes brushes need BRUSHES constant care to keep them In proper condition. Comb the loose hair and dust from them every time they are used. Once a week Is not too often to clean the brushes In dally use. Pour In the wash basin some tepid water and add ammonia to make strong. Hold the brush In this a few moments, taking care not to let the water go above the bristles' top, then take a whisk broom and brush the bristles out as If dusting them. The ammonia cuts the dirt and grease, and makes a brush like new after such treatment. Dry in the sun or In the open air. If possible. If not, lay on a paper over the radiator. It should be first wiped dry with a clean cloth. Combs may be cleaned In the same way. To clean sponges, squeeze the juice of a lemon into the sponge and thoroughly work It Into the fiber. Then rinse in warm water. This makes It sweet and Handy Hints on Housekeeping clean as new. Horn combs, by the way, should not be cleaned in water, which causes them to split. One may buy for fifteen or twenty cents at almost any drug store small stiff brushes which come for the purpose of cleaning combs. TO Nowadays, with the prevailing craze for SCOUR collecting copper and brass, most houses COPPER contain at least a few pieces, and they require special care if they be kept bright. To scour copper take two tablespoonfuls of bath brick dust and one tablespoonful of baking soda and mix thoroughly. Dampen a cloth in gasolene or coal oil, dip in the mixture and polish with that. Afterward polish with chamois skin. One young bachelor who boasts a fine collection of copper bought most of it from Russian Jews, and some pieces were almost hopeless at first. But this treatment and a little patience made them shine like new. TO Take putty powder and add to it sufficient BRIGHTEN sweet oil to make a paste. Rub with this lrub bright brass or copper until all foreign matter is removed. Then wash the article with soap and water and rub dry with a clean cloth. Brass may also be cleaned with lemon or orange juice thickened with whiting. Apply with a chamois skin or a flannel rag. To remove verdegris from brass, add to the juice of one lemon a teaspoonful of salt, mix well and apply with a soft flannel. Rinse and rub well with chamois Handy Hints on Housekeeping skin. Be very careful if you have a scratch on your hand, as verdegris is a poison. Some collectors brighten brass without the use of paste, simply applying hot ammonia water. Or, better still, pour the aqua ammonia directly on the brass and scrub with a brush. Rinse in clear water and wipe dry. The result will be a beautiful polish. TO Scour with powdered borax and a damp BRIGHTEN rag, rinsing off with clear water. If dis- NICKEL colored, make a paste of equal parts of PLATE . . ammonia and alcohol and enough whiting to make thin, applying with a piece of chamois skin. Rub the nickel with a piece of clean chamois or flannel until bright. This will keep the chafing-dish bright and clean. The smoke from the alcohol lamp should first be washed off in hot soap suds. If very thick, wipe off first with a piece of newspaper before washing. TO Silver flasks and other articles may be kept KEEP bright by wrapping from the air, in blue