A CORRESPONDENT iu Little Rock, Arkansas, truly says: Comparatively few housekeepers are aware of the many uses to which waste paper may be put. After a stove has been blackened, it can be kept looking very well for a long time by rubbing with paper every min-ning. Rubbing with paper is a much nicer way of keeping the outside of a tea-kettle, coffee-pot and tea-pot bright and clean, than the old way of washing them in suds. Rubbing with paper is also the best way of polishing knives and tinware, after scouring. This saves wetting the knife handles. If a little flour be held on the paper in rubbing tinware and spoons, they shine like new silver. For polishing mirrors, windows, lamp-chimneys, etc., paper is better than dry cloth. After it has been so used it is none the worse for kindling fires. Preserves and pickles keep much better, if brown paper, instead of cloth, is tied over the jar. Canned fruit is not so apt to mold if a piece of writing paper, cut to fit the can, is laid directly on the fruit. Paper is much better to put under a carpet than straw. It is warmer, thinner, and makes less noise when one walks over it. Two thicknesses of paper placed between other coverings on a bed, are as warm as a quilt. If it is necessary to step upon a chair, always lay a paper on it and thus save the paint or woodwork from damage. A fair carpet can be made for a room not in constant use, by pasting several thicknesses of newspaper on the floor, over them a coat of wall-paper, and giving them a coat of varnish. VII. Cleaning Soiled Marble. Much annoyance is frequently experienced from soiling marble table-tops, kitchen slabs or other mai'ble objects. It is said that if slacked lime is mixed with a strono- solution of soap into a pasty mass and spread over the spot, and allowed to remain for twenty-four or thirty hours, then carefully washed off with soap and water and finally with pure water, the stain will be almost entirely removed, especially if the application be repeated once or twice. Ox-Gall and Lye. — Another preparation consists in mixing an ox-gall with a quarter of a pound of soap-boiler's lye, and an eighth of a pound of oil of turpen- 296 TWENTIETH CENTURY HOME COOK BOOK. tine, and adding enough pipc-cIay earth to form a paste, which is then to be phiced upon the marble for a time, and afterward scraped off, the application to be repeated until the marble is perfectly clean. It is quite possible that with all our endeavors a faint trace of the stains may be left; but it is said that this will be almost inappre- ciable. Should the spots be produced by oil, these are to be first treated with petroleum for the purpose of softening the hardened oil, and the above-mentioned appli- cations may be made subsequently. Ink Spots on Marble. — Ink spots may be removed by first washing with pure water, and then with a weak solution of oxalic acid. Subsequent polishing, however, will be necessary, as the luster of the stone may become dimmed. This can be best produced by very finely powdered soft white marble, applied with a linen cloth first dipped in water and then into the powder. If the place be subsequently rubbed with a dry cloth the luster will be restored. Grease Spots on Wood. — If one is so unfortunate as to get any sort of grease on floor or table, appl}^ directly potter's clay, just wet with water so as to foi'm a stiff paste. Spread it pretty thick upon the grease spot, and lay a thin paper over to keep it from being rubbed off. After twenty-four hours scrape it off and spread on fresh clay. It will gradually absorb the grease, and leave the floor or table clean; but it may need to be renewed several times. When the clay looks clean, wash off with soap and water. The clay is also good to take grease from clothing, applied in the same way.

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A CORRESPONDENT iu Little Rock, Arkansas, truly says: Comparatively few housekeepers are aware of the many uses to which waste paper may be put. After a stove has been blackened, it can be kept looking very well for a long time by rubbing with paper every morning. Rubbing with paper is a much nicer way of keeping the outside of a tea-kettle, coffee-pot and tea-pot bright and clean, than the old way of washing them in suds. Rubbing with paper is also the best way of polishing knives and tinware, after scouring. This saves wetting the knife handles. If a little flour be held on the paper in rubbing tinware and spoons, they shine like new silver. For polishing mirrors, windows, lamp-chimneys, etc., paper is better than dry cloth. After it has been so used it is none the worse for kindling fires. Preserves and pickles keep much better, if brown paper, instead of cloth, is tied over the jar. Canned fruit is not so apt to mold if a piece of writing paper, cut to fit the can, is laid directly on the fruit. Paper is much better to put under a carpet than straw. It is warmer, thinner, and makes less noise when one walks over it. Two thicknesses of paper placed between other coverings on a bed, are as warm as a quilt. If it is necessary to step upon a chair, always lay a paper on it and thus save the paint or woodwork from damage. A fair carpet can be made for a room not in constant use, by pasting several thicknesses of newspaper on the floor, over them a coat of wall-paper, and giving them a coat of varnish. VII. Cleaning Soiled Marble. Much annoyance is frequently experienced from soiling marble table-tops, kitchen slabs or other marble objects. It is said that if slacked lime is mixed with a strong solution of soap into a pasty mass and spread over the spot, and allowed to remain for twenty-four or thirty hours, then carefully washed off with soap and water and finally with pure water, the stain will be almost entirely removed, especially if the application be repeated once or twice. Ox-Gall and Lye. — Another preparation consists in mixing an ox-gall with a quarter of a pound of soap-boiler's lye, and an eighth of a pound of oil of turpentine, and adding enough pipe-clay earth to form a paste, which is then to be phiced upon the marble for a time, and afterward scraped off, the application to be repeated until the marble is perfectly clean. It is quite possible that with all our endeavors a faint trace of the stains may be left; but it is said that this will be almost inappreciable. Should the spots be produced by oil, these are to be first treated with petroleum for the purpose of softening the hardened oil, and the above-mentioned applications may be made subsequently. Ink Spots on Marble. — Ink spots may be removed by first washing with pure water, and then with a weak solution of oxalic acid. Subsequent polishing, however, will be necessary, as the luster of the stone may become dimmed. This can be best produced by very finely powdered soft white marble, applied with a linen cloth first dipped in water and then into the powder. If the place be subsequently rubbed with a dry cloth the luster will be restored. Grease Spots on Wood. — If one is so unfortunate as to get any sort of grease on floor or table, apply directly potter's clay, just wet with water so as to form a stiff paste. Spread it pretty thick upon the grease spot, and lay a thin paper over to keep it from being rubbed off. After twenty-four hours scrape it off and spread on fresh clay. It will gradually absorb the grease, and leave the floor or table clean; but it may need to be renewed several times. When the clay looks clean, wash off with soap and water. The clay is also good to take grease from clothing, applied in the same way.

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