The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-13
Miscellaneous.

- Miscellaneous.
TO Clean Black Cashmere: Wash
in hot suds with little borax in the
water; rinse in bluing water-very blue
and iron while damp. 1t VIII look
equal to new.
A bit of glue, dissolved in sweet,
SKINNED milk and water, will restore
old Grape. Use "a sponge and moisten
thoroughly; press, with warm iron, wet
cloth and soft brush, same as you dc
! velyets.
TO Shrink Flannel: Put the new
flannel into clean cold water, and keep
it for fortnight, changing the water
SIX or seven times, then wash well III
warm water and soap TO get rid OF the
oily matter. The flannel will neither
/ get hard nor shrink after that. .-.
"A good composition for rendering
boots proof against snow and wet, can
be made of one part mutton talloW ano
two parts beeswaX, melted together. II
should be applied to the leather at night
and then wipe off the boots with bit OF
colored flannel the next morning Ol
course it will be more difficult to make
boots thus treated take Il good polish
but after few times they will be as sus'
ceptible of a brilliant polish as ever.
To Cure Hams: Cover the bottom
of the cask or barrel with coarse salt
Iput in the hams with the skin side down
and sprinkle over fine salt. Place in an
other layer of hams and so on until al
are in. Make brine according to the
following proportions: Nine pounds o.
salt, four pounds of brown sugar, three
ounces of saltpeter and one ounce O
saleratus to six gallons of water. Boil
skim, and when cold pour into the cash
until the hams are entirely covered. Lee
remain in this pickle three months.
1 TO Cleanse Cahcoes, French Lawns
Muslins and Cambrics: Mix two cupful:
of wheat bran in cold water till smooth
paste; then stir it into one quart OF soft
boiling water. Let it boil half an hour
then strain and add to it four or five
more quarts of soft warm water o.
enough to wash dress in. Use no soap
for the bran answers all the cleansing
purposes of soap. The water shoulC
not be much more than milk warm anC
perfectly clean. Add tablespoonful o
salt if there is black in the dresses o.
any color that may run. Rinse thor
oughly in only one water. No starch L
needed, but if one thinks it desirable
use a little white glue-water, not hot.
Whether to soak the clothes owe
night or not is a much-disputed ques
ton with housewives. Where pure els
tern water can be had it is doubtless al
advantage, but to soak clothes in hare
} water sets the stains rather than re
moves them, and river waters. unles
filtered when drawn off in quantities, n
rule, contains so much mud that it /
apt to streak the clothes soaked in it TO
any considerable time. Wringers are
blessed invention on the whole, although
hard on buttons. But fannels should
not be passed through them, as they rul
the wool up into little hard maps
Clothes should, if possible, be dried IL
the sun and in the open air, and "neve
yet did housewife notably greet with
smile rainy washing day" But whel
Monday is rainy, it is not always con
venient to postpone the weekly wash
In that case, sheets and any other larg'
white pieces which are not to be starchet
may be hung out in the rain, which vii
bleach rather than injure them. lfpos
siBle, hang the smaller pieces in an un
used room up stairs, when the rest ma.
usually be disposed of by hanging a
night on lines stretched across the htch
en-, where the heat of the fire will DIR.
them before morning. Blankets ough
never to be washed in rainy weather
Select bright summer day for the work
and let it be done and through with
Have two people to wiring them, ant