The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05
Useful Hints.

Useful Hints.
KEEP coffee by itself o. its odor affects
other articles. Keep tea in close chest
or canister.
To SELECT nutmegs prick them with a
pin. If they are good the oil will in
stantly spread around the punctsre.
IP door does not shut without slam
put drop of sweet oil on the catch; if
it creeks put oil ON the hinges. Soap
viii do, but not 80 well.
To REMOVE starch or rust from fatrons,
have piece of yellow beeswax tied in o
coarse cloth, when the iron is almost hot
enough to use, but not quite, rub it
quickly with the beeswax and then with
clean, coarse cloth.
LINEN garments which have become
yellow from time may be whitened by
being boiled in a lather made of milk
and pure white soap, pound of the lat
ter TO gallon of the former. After the
boiling process, the linen should be twice
rinsed, little blue being added to the
last water used.
Coop petroleum shonld be colorless or
light yellow, or with the faintest tinge of
violet When shaken with sulphuric
acid, diluted with its own bulk of water,
it should only color the acid light yell
low, becoming itself lighter in color by
the treatment. At ninety-five degrees
Fahrenheit it should not burn when a
light is Supplied. 1t should have no
unpleasant odor.
GREAT injury is often done to that
delicate organ, the ear, by attempting to
remove the wax with hard instrument.
1t should be remembered that wax in its
normal condition is provision of nature
to guard the entrance of the ear from
dust, insects, and sudden draughts of
cold air. When it has served its pu- ,ose
it becomes dry and scaly, and IS pushed
outside easily. Hard instruments intro
ducea into the ear may pierce the drum
or excite inflammation, and cause deafness
or serious injury.
WHEN woolens are worn threadbare as
is often the case in the elbows, cuffs,
sleeves, etc., of mems coats, the coats
must be soaked in cold water for half an
hour, then taken out of the water and
put on board, and the threadbare parts
of the cloth rubbed with half-wor hat
ter's "card," filed with focks, or with
prickly thistle, until sufficient nap is
raised. When this is done, hang the
coat up to dry, and with hard brush
lay the nap the right way. This is
the method pursued by dealers in old
clothes.
A very superior quality of mucilage is
made by dissolving clear glue in equal
volumes of water and strong vinegar, and
adding onefourth of an equal volume of
alcohol, and small quantity of solu-
ton of alum water. The action of the
vinegar is due to the acetic acid it con-
tains. This prevents the glue from gela-
tinizing by cooling; but the same result
may be accomplished by adding a small
quantity of nitric acid. Some of the
preparations offered for sale are merely
boiled starch or -four, mixed with nitric
acid to prevent the gelatinizing.
RECIPE for cleaning white lace: Make
a solution of white soap in clean sauce
pan; put in your lace and let it boil
gently for quarter of an hour, take it
out into clean basin with some warm
water and soap, and keep gently squeez-
ing it till it is thoroughly clean; then
rinse it from the soap, and have ready
pan of clean cold water, in which put a
drop of liquid blue; rinse the lace in this
liquid; then take teaspoonful of starch,
and pour boiling water upon it; run the
lace through this, and clear it well by
clapping it between the hands; frame it
or pin it out, taking care to keep the
edges straight and even.