Nice Glossy Starch. — To three cupfuls of water take three
rounded teaspoonfuls of starch, a pinch of salt, and one tea-
poonful of powdered borax. Dissolve your borax in part of
the water; then add starch and salt; dip your collars, cuffs and
bosoms into the starch. Your irons must be good; rub them
with bees-wax, and we promise you a stiff, glossy surface with
never a failure.
To Remove Iron Rust Stains. — Moisten the spot with a
solution of Epsom salts in a few drops of hot water, and rub
in well once or twice; then fill a tin vessel with boiling water
and set it on the stain; rinse in cold water.
HOUSEHOLD. 221
To Remove Mildew. — Rub common brown soap on the
spot, and scrape white chalk in it. Keep wet and lay in the
sun.
To Remove Scorches. — Scorches made by over-heated flat
irons can be removed from linen by spreading over the
scorched cloth a paste made of the juice pressed from two
onions, one-half ounce of white soap, two ounces of fuller's
earth, and half a pint of vinegar✪ To Remove Scorches. Mix, boil well and cool
before using.
To Prevent Blue Fabrics from Fading. — Dissolve two tea-
spoonfuls of sugar of lead in one gallon of water, soak the
stockings or cloth in this solution from half to one hour,
according to material. Delicate fabrics need to soak only
until saturated; rinse before washing and wash quickly.
Blueing". — One ounce of best Prussian blue, half an ounce
of oxolic acid, one quart of soft water✪ Blueing. Heat enough of the
water to dissolve the acid, then stir in the blue, add cold water
and bottle for use; keep in the cellar.
To Clean Silk Dresses. — Equal quantities of alcohol, molas-
ses and soft soap; one pint of each will do two dresses; beat
well together, and after spreading a breadth of silk on a
clean kitchen table, scour it with an old but clean clothes
brush; have three tubs or pails of water, take up the breadth
of silk by the top and dip it up and down in first one pail,
then the second, and then the third. When there is no color
left in the water the rinsing is complete. Pin the breadths
to the clothes-line without wringing. When a little damp press
out with a cold iron. Before cleaning rub the grease spots
with pure naptha or gasoline. We have used this horrid-
looking mixture with the best success on even light silks and
silk with white stripes.
Paint Spots. — ^When neither turpentine nor benzine will
remove paint spots from garments, try chloroform. It will
absorb and remove paint which has been on for six months.
A Cure for Bedbugs. — Gosoline or a strong solution of
ammonia are both good remedies.
The only sure remedy that, in the course of seventeen
years, we have invariably found efficacious, is a preparation of
copperas, one pound to one gallon of boiling water. The
most infected house we ever saw was cleared by filling a syringe
with this fluid and shooting it into the cracks and crevices of
the rooms and walls. Sponging or painting the bedstead with
this solution will keep them away for months and forever.
The only drawback to this is that it leaves a stain like iron rust.
222 HOUSEHOLD.
Oil of cedar is an excellent and cleamy remedy. Salt and
kerosene oil in cracks and under base boards is good.
To Drive Away Mice. — Moisten chloride of lime, and stop
their holes of ingress with the paste. If the holes are inacces-
sible, set the chloride around on small plates. Mice do not
like it.
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Nice Glossy Starch. — To three cupfuls of water take three rounded teaspoonfuls of starch, a pinch of salt, and one teapoonful of powdered borax. Dissolve your borax in part of the water; then add starch and salt; dip your collars, cuffs and bosoms into the starch. Your irons must be good; rub them with bees-wax, and we promise you a stiff, glossy surface with never a failure.
To Remove Iron Rust Stains. — Moisten the spot with a solution of Epsom salts in a few drops of hot water, and rub in well once or twice; then fill a tin vessel with boiling water and set it on the stain; rinse in cold water.
To Remove Mildew. — Rub common brown soap on the spot, and scrape white chalk in it. Keep wet and lay in the sun.
To Remove Scorches. — Scorches made by over-heated flat irons can be removed from linen by spreading over the scorched cloth a paste made of the juice pressed from two onions, one-half ounce of white soap, two ounces of fuller's earth, and half a pint of vinegar. Mix, boil well and cool before using.
To Prevent Blue Fabrics from Fading. — Dissolve two teaspoonfuls of sugar of lead in one gallon of water, soak the stockings or cloth in this solution from half to one hour, according to material. Delicate fabrics need to soak only until saturated; rinse before washing and wash quickly.
Blueing". — One ounce of best Prussian blue, half an ounce of oxolic acid, one quart of soft water. Heat enough of the water to dissolve the acid, then stir in the blue, add cold water and bottle for use; keep in the cellar.
To Clean Silk Dresses. — Equal quantities of alcohol, molasses and soft soap; one pint of each will do two dresses; beat well together, and after spreading a breadth of silk on a clean kitchen table, scour it with an old but clean clothes brush; have three tubs or pails of water, take up the breadth of silk by the top and dip it up and down in first one pail, then the second, and then the third. When there is no color left in the water the rinsing is complete. Pin the breadths to the clothes-line without wringing. When a little damp press out with a cold iron. Before cleaning rub the grease spots with pure naptha or gasoline. We have used this horrid-looking mixture with the best success on even light silks and silk with white stripes.
Paint Spots. — ^When neither turpentine nor benzine will remove paint spots from garments, try chloroform. It will absorb and remove paint which has been on for six months.
A Cure for Bedbugs. — Gosoline or a strong solution of ammonia are both good remedies.
The only sure remedy that, in the course of seventeen years, we have invariably found efficacious, is a preparation of copperas, one pound to one gallon of boiling water. The most infected house we ever saw was cleared by filling a syringe with this fluid and shooting it into the cracks and crevices of the rooms and walls. Sponging or painting the bedstead with this solution will keep them away for months and forever. The only drawback to this is that it leaves a stain like iron rust.
Oil of cedar is an excellent and cleamy remedy. Salt and kerosene oil in cracks and under base boards is good.
To Drive Away Mice. — Moisten chloride of lime, and stop their holes of ingress with the paste. If the holes are inaccessible, set the chloride around on small plates. Mice do not like it.
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