Sharp County record., 1878-12-19
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

Weak tea is very useful for clean
ing furniture.
Cool rain-water and soda will re-
move machine-grease from washable
fabrics.
-Oxalic acid will take iron or ink
stains out of cloths. Wash the cloths
after using it.
Fish may be scaled much easier by
dipping into boiling water about a
minute.
Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and
other stains from white CLOTH also,
from the hands.
"A teaspoonful of turpentine boiled
with your white clothes will aid the
whitening process.
Fresh meat, after beginning TO sour,
will sweeten if placed out of doors in the
cool over night.
Kerosene will soften boots or shoes
which have been hardened by water,
and render them as pliable as new.
Milk which is turned or changed
may be sweetened, and rendered fit for
use again, by stirring in little soda.
Boiled starch is much improved by
the addition of little sperm, or little
salt, or both, or little gum-arabic dis
solved.
In damp closets, strong rooms,
safes, and other places where mildew is
dreaded, trayful of quick-lime placed
there will prevent it.
Salt will curdle new milk; hence,
in preparing milk-porridge, gravies,
etc., the salt should not be added until
the dish is prepared.
Clear boiling water will remove
tea-stains and many fruit-stains. Pour
the water through the stain, and thus
prevent it spreading over the fabric.
kerosene will make tin tea-kettles
as bright as new. Saturate a woolen
rag and rub with it. 1t will also remove
stains from clean vanished furniture.
"A carelessly kept coffee-pot will i'm
part rank flavor to the strongest in
fusion of the best Java. Wash the cof-
fee-pot thoroughly every day and twice
week boil borax and water in it for 10
minutes.
-Beeswax and salt will make your
rusty flat-irons as clean and smooth as
glass. Tie a lump of wax in rag, and
keep it for that purpose. When the
irons are hot, rub them first with the
wax-rag, then scour with a paper or
cloth sprinkled with salt.
Now that colors are so largely used
in stockings and so many are ruined in
the laundry, good plan in washing
them is to roll them after being rinsed
into piece of white linen and squeeze
it so as to remove all the moisture pos
sible, then put it to dry, and the stock
ings will look new again. 1t is also a
good plan to put small spoonful of
spirits of salt into the water in which
stockings are washed in order to keep
in the colors.
The following recipe for imparting
to stoves fine polish, which will neither
burn off nor give out an offensive smell,
will prove acceptable to some of our
readers. Lamp-black is mixed with
waters glass Ga solution of silicate of
soda) to the consistency of sirup, and
applied with brush as a thin and
even coating, then left "a hours to dry.
Afterwards graphite, or black-lead,
mixed with gum-water, is applied, and
polish obtained by rubbing in the usual
manner.
1t stated that newly ground coffee,
sprinkled over game, will keep it sweet
and fresh for several days. Clean the
game-that is, wipe off the blood, cover
the wounded parts with absorbent pa
per, wrap up the heads, and then sprin-
kle ground coffee over and among the
feathers or fur, as the case may be,pack
up carefully, and the game will be pre-
served fresh and sweet in the most un-
favorable weather. Game sent loose
can not, of course, be thus treated, but,
if packed in boxes or hampers, tea
spoonful of coffee is enough for brace
of birds, and in this proportion for
larger game. A lump of charcoal in
serted In the cavity of drawn bird is
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