Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-12-03

SPIRITS OF AMMoNIA.-Utorth and
Home, an excellent family paper. has
the following hints, by a housekcer-
er, concerning the use of ammonia to
facilitate many household labors:
Sisters in household labors, have
you any idea what very useful thing
ammonia is to have in the house
If not, give yonr maid of all work Is
cents and an empty pint bottle. at
once, and send her to the first drug
store for supply. Tell her to. be
cure to get the spirits of ammonia
it's the same as hartshorn, bu: if she
asks for that they will give her for
Is cents a few drops in smelling
bottle noras big as her thumb
While she's gone l will tell you how
to use it. For washing paint, put a
tablespoonful in moderately hot wa
ter, dip in flannel cloth, and with
this simply wipe off the woodwork
no scrubbipg will be necessary. For
taking grease spots from any fabric,
use the ammonia nearly pure, then
lay white blotting paper over the spot
aud iron it lightly, In washing laces
put about twelve drops in a pint of
warm suds. To clean silver mix
two teaspoonfuls of ammonia in
quart of hot soapsuds, put in your
silverware and wash it, using an old
nail brush or tooth brush for the pur-
pose. For cleaning hair brushes, etc.
simply shake the brushes up and
down ina mixture of one teaspoonful
ammonia to one pint of hot water;
when they are cleaned, rinse them in
cold water and stand them in the
wind or in hot place to dry. For
washing finger-marks from looking
glasses or windows, put few drops
of ammonia on moist rag and make
quick work of it. If you wish your
house plants to flourish, put few
drops of spirits of ammonia in every
pint of water used in watering. A
teaspoonful i'll basin Of cold water
will add much to the refreshing eff
fects ola bath; nothing is better than
ammonia water for cleansing the
hair. In every case rinse off the am
monia with clear water. Ammonia
lie used as q rising in cakc-making,
etc., but l cannot recommend it for
that purpose; and ten drops in a
wine glass of water is said to be an
excellent remedy for headache and
acidity of stomach, but I don't be.
lieve in newspaper doctoring, and so
will not endorse the remedy. How.
ever, for score of fair and square
needed practical household purposes
spirits of ammonia is invaluable, and
l am not afraid to proclaim it. Farm
ers and chemists are profound con-
corning the native are in its free
state, and admit its all,important SER
vices in the economy of nature but
farmers throughout the country really
know very little of the manifold uses
that can be made of pint of the
spirits "kept in the house," bottled
and labelled. l say emphatically,
labelled, because it is sin not to
have all such things so conspicuous!y
marked that no mistakes need occur.
Let me add here, by way of caution,
that ammonia directly applied is not
good for the eyes. It has a way of
melting them that is anything but
agreeable.
D~ DR.. Hall relates the case of a
man who was cured of billiousness
by going without his supper and
drinking freely of lemonade. "Eve-
~ morning." Gays the doctor, "this
patient rose with wonderful sense
of rest, refreshment, and feeling as
though the blood had been literally
washed, cleansed, and cooled by the
lemonade and the fast" His theory
is that food will be used as remedy
for many diseases successfully. For
example, he instances cures of spit
ting blood by the use of salt; epiiep-
sy and yellow fever, watermelons:
kidney affections, celery; poison,
olive or sweet oil; erysipilas, pound
ed cranberries applied to the parts
affected; hydrorhobia, onions, etc.
30 the thing to do in order to keep
in good health is really to know
what to eat, and not what medicines
to take.
~ Manure, says DR.. Nichols, in
his Journal Of Chemistry, is never so
valuable as when it is fresh. 1t then
holds in association not only all the
fixed soluble substances natural to
the solid excrement, but much that
is Of great value fond only in the
liquid. It is in a condition to quickly
undergo chemical change, and the
gaseous, nmmoniacal products secur-
ed are double those resulting from
that which has been weathered in a
heap out Of doors for several months.