Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-05-18
The Household.

A lady having practically tested til,
following receipts for dying cottor
goods, sends them to the Telegraph fol
publication, that others may with her
share the benefit of the bright and beau.
tifnl colors given:
10 dye cotton Yello,o-For six pounds
OF cotton: First wet the goods in clear
wafer; 10 the same quantity of water
add nIhe ounces ot sugar of lead, and to
another quantity add six uuuces of BIZ
chromate OF potash; keep these solu-
lons separate. Dip the goods in the su-
gar OF lead water, then in the potash,
aud i'll the sugar OF lead water again,
Wiring out and dry; rinse in clear, cold
water.
10 dye cotton Orqnge.-Prepare a
lime-water as for white-wash, the strong
er the deeper the color. Pour off the
water aud boil while boiling, dip in the
cloth that you have already colored yell
low. All the solutions should be cold
except the lime-water.
To dye cotton Green.-After colorinp
your cloth yellow, dip it in a stonc dye
made of magic bluing, then in a strong
alum'water, having the alum-water hot
when you dip the cloth in. Color in
tin.
To dye cotton Blue.-Dissolve seven
ounces OF copperas in sufficient warm
water to cover three pounds of cloth /;
let 1t remain a while, airing it; take il
out and rinse in two clear waters. Dis
solve one ounce Of prussiate of potash in
the same quantity OF water, and add one
tablespoonful of the oil of vitrol; stir it
well; put in the cloth, let it remain a
whlle, airing it, then rinse in two clean
waters. Put the potash and vitrol in an
iron kettle, and the other in tin.
To dye cotton Red One pound of
camwood, boiled in an iron kettle, will
color three pounds of cotton cloth TO a
light red that will not fade; by letting
1t remain i'll the dye day or two it will
color darker, airing and heating occa-
sionally.
To dye acool cocAin ,az iScarlet-TIeat
suincleht water TO cover one pound of
woolen goods or yarn in a clean brass
kettle, put i'll half an ounce of cream of
tartar, one ounce of pulverized cochi-
neal, scald and strain, set it back, put
two ounces of muriate of tin, stir well,
wet your cloth in clean water, wiring
dry, put in the dye and let it remain one
hour, air it. This dyes u bright scarlet.
II you wish it darker, dip in strong al
um-water.
To dye cotton Nankeen.-Boil il in a
paiIful Of lye, with piece OF copperas
half as big as hens egg. This will
color a fue nankeen color, which will
never wash out; very useful for the lin
ings OF bed quilts, comforts, etc.
To dye Black k-Rusty nails. or any
rusty iron, boiled in vinIgar with a small
bit of copperas, makes good black.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A method of freshening rancid butter
is published in many of the papers as
follows: To pint of water add thirty
drops of liquor of chloride of lime.
Wash in this two and hall pounds OF
rancid butter. When every particle of
the butter has come in contact with the
water, let 1t stand an honr or TWO; then
wash the butter well in pure water
The butter is then left without any odor
and has the sweetness of fresh butter.
These preparations of lime have nothing
injurious in them. A writer who claims
to have tried this, says that the most
rancid butter was rendered SO sweet By
it, that able judges could not distinguish
it from new butter when placed along
side the latter on the table.
To ,caSh doeskin glOves Wash them
in water of blood heat, wiring them as
dry as possible, and let them hang in
the house, away from heat, until two
thirds dry; then stretch until soft.
Wash-leather, used for cleaning glass or
silver, may be washed as above; also
buckskin mittens, shirts, etc.
Mint Vinegar. Put into a wide
bottle fresh, nice, clean mint
leaves enough, to fill il loosely; then fill
mp the bottle with good vinegar, and af-
ter it has. been stopped close for two or
three weeks, it is 10 be poured off clean
into another bottle and Kept well corked
tor use. -uH'..f
Decoction of Sdrsaparilld.-Take four
ounces of the root, slice it down, put
the slices into four pints Of water and
simmer for four hours. Take out the
and beat it into mash put
it into the liquor again and boil down
to two pints then strain sud cool tho