How to Cleanse Clothes
From A bachelors cupboard, 1906
Handle cyanuret of potassium with care as it is poisonous.
Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from A bachelors cupboard (1906) by A. Lyman Phillips, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
How to Cleanse Clothes In chlorine water. If the colors are delicate, make some prepared chalk into a thin paste with water and apply to the spot, brushing off when dry. VARNISH will readily respond to kerosene oil If STAINS rubbed in until the varnish is soft. Wash, after, with soap and water. This removes varnish from the hands very quickly. INK An overturned Ink well Is a frequent mls- STAINS hap even in the best regulated bachelor apartments, and nothing causes his lordship so much consternation as to see the Inky fluid trickling over his papers and running In a little rivulet over the carpet or table cover. The handy box should contain a bottle of salts of lemon for just such emergencies as these. Cover the ink spots with this and let remain a few moments, when the stain will disappear. Wash the article with a brush and soap, rinse with clear water and wipe dry. Dry salt may be used, in case salts of lemon are not procurable. Apply at once, and as soon as the salt becomes discolored, brush off and apply fresh, wetting the salt slightly on the second applica- tion. Continue until the spot has disappeared. In case the Ink has run on the carpet or rug, apply salt and wet with milk. Let this remain until dry, and then rub off. Repeat the process if any stain remains. To remove any kind of stains from red Ink, tartaric acid Is necessary. For white goods, make the spot damp with clear water and rub the acid Into it. For w^oolens and colored cottons, dilute the acid and apply it cautiously until the spots have disappeared. 202 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD How to Cleanse Clothes INDELIBLE One would suppose that stains from Indell- INK ble ink could not be removed, but they are by no means hopeless. A saturated solution of cyanuret of potassium and water will remove such stains. Apply carefully with a camel's hair brush. The cyanuret is a poison and should be handled with care. INKY The toiler over the ledger is often annoyed FINGERS by inky fingers, and if he does not keep in the office lavatory a piece of pumice stone or hand sapolio, he may remove all traces of his trade by simply moistening the head of an ordinary sulphur match and rubbing the ink spots with it. In using pumice stone for removing stains, first rub the stone on soap, then apply. 203 "Expect not at another's hand what you can do hy your own." AIRING A woman who, as the THE BED mother of several sons, has many young men as guests at her large country house, says she can Invariably judge a man from the care he takes of his rodm. A young man who has been well brought up, she says, never falls to turn back his bedclothes upon aris- ing In the morning. If the clothes, sheets and all, are turned back smoothly over the footboard and the pillows placed near the open window in a convenient chair, she decides that the young man's mother instilled into him that good breeding which makes neatness and cleanliness and care Imperative to his comfort and that of his hostess. She further adds 205 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Handy Hints on Housekeeping a few remarks on the " fine husband that man is going to make " who remembers the little things, but they would be out of place In a bachelor book. Many there are, however, who never pay attention to such details, but leave the bed rumpled and tumbled as they jump out of it In the morning. The well-bred young man always airs his bed with the same care In which he takes his morning tub, putting the pillows, If possible, where the sunlight may fall upon them. Falling this, the air at least keeps the feathers fluffy and light and the ticking fresh and clean. TO CLEAN Hair brushes and clothes brushes need BRUSHES constant care to keep them In proper con- dition. 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 papef 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 206 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD 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 re- quire 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 mix- ture 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 liRAbb |.|^g 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
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