Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-04-30
Helpful Hints fer Housewives.

LIQUID BLUING FOR CLOTHING. Take
of soluble Prusslan blue, two ounces;
oXalic acid, half an ounce; water, one
gallon. Mix.
ZINC WHrrEwAsH-M oxide of zinc
with common size, and apply 1t with a
whitewash brush to the ceiling. After
this apply in the same manner a wash
of the chloride of zinc, which will COM
bine with the oxide to form smooth
cement with shining surface.
CLEANING GLASSES. -The lenses of
spectacles or spyglasses that have be-
come scratched or dimmed by age,
may be cleaned with hydrofuric acid,
diluted with four Or five times its vol
ume OF water. Great care must be ex-
ercised in handling this acid, as it eats
quickly into the flesh, often producing
painful and obstinate Sores.
Rock CREAM.-Boil a teacupful of
the best rice till quite soft, in new
milk, sweetened with powdered white
sugar, and pile it upon dish; lay all
over it Jumps of jelly or preserved
fruit of any kind. Beat the whites of
three eggs to a stiff froth, add a little
sugar favored with what you please.
Add to this when very stiff about q
tablespoonful of rich cream-drop over
it rice, giving it the appearance of a
rock of snow.
MARBLED VEAL.-Take some cold
roasted fllet Of veal, season it with
spices, and beat 1t in q mortar. Skin
Il cold dried tongue, cut it up, and
pound 1t to a paste, adding to it nearly
It's weight OF fresh butter; put some of
the veal into pots, then stew in Jumps
of the pounded tongue. Put in another
layer of veal, and again more tongue :;
press 1t down and pour clarified butter
on the top. This cuts very prettiiy,
like veined marble. The dressed white
meat of either fowl, rabbit or turkey
will answer for the purpose as well as
veal
To MAKE OLD Silk LOOK LIKE New.
-unplck the garment, and wash the
pieces in hot soapsuds; rinse by dip
ping up and down in hot water; then
dip in second water, prepared as fol-
lows: Boil two ounces of logwood
chips IN five quarts of water add
quarter of an ounce of ccpperas strain
through an old bit of calico, and dip
your silk into this dye. Let the silk
be pinned on to a line by the corners,
and hang until it is nearly dry. Then
take it down and iron it between two
pieces of old black silk. It will look
like new
To RESTORE SCRATCHED FURNITURE
Scrape one pound of beeswax into
shavingo in pan; add half a gallon of
spirits of turpentine and one pint of
hnseed oil. Let it remain twelve hours.
then stir it well with stick into a liq-
uid while stirring add one quarter
shellac varnish and one ounce alkanet
root. Put this mixture into a gallon
jar and stand it before the fire or in
an oven, for a week Ito keep it just
warm); shake it through hair sieve
and bottle it. Pour about teaspoon
full on wad of baize go lightly over
the face and other parts of the mahog
any furniture then rub briskly with
similar dry wad. and in three minutes
it will produce dark, brilliant polish
unequaled.
Another preparation may be made as
follows: Make a mixture of three
parts linseed oil and one part spirits of
turpentine. 1t not only covers the dis
figured surface, but restores wood to
it's original color, and leaves a lustre
upon the surface. Put on with wool
en- cloth, and when dry rub with wool