The Newtown bee., 1880-01-14
USEFUL HINTS.
Relief for Many Household Grievances.

relief from defacements of the posses sions of young housekeepers by acci- dental stains or injuries: Before any spot or stain can be erased, it is im- portant that one should learn the nature of whatever produced the blemish, and also that of the material injured. Any thing which, if applied, might erase a stain from wood or metal, might be in furious if applied to cloth. That which would remove the defect from linen might increase the trouble if used on woolens, or have no effect at all.
 A weak solution of oxalie acid applied with a brush with great care will re- move the ink from books or papers, and in no wise injure them, or if ink is spilled on linen, cotton, or any white goods. oxalic acid will remove it, unless dried in, and of long standing. In that case, equal quantities of muriatic acid and tin-salt will remove it, but both these preparations are poisonous, and should be cqrefLlly labeled and kept out of tl,e reach of children or careless ser- wants. Delicate colors would be de- stroyed by these preparations. Ask the druggist for weak solution of pyro- phosphate of soda, dip a brush in it, and carefully wet the ink spot, and after several trials it will remove ink from delicate colors without injuring the goods. Wash or sponge with clear water.
 But none of these things can be used safely on carpets or wooden goods. If ink is spilled on carpet or wooden ar- ticle, it should be attended to at once. while still wet if possible, and then is very easily removed. Take clean blot ting-paper or cotton batting, and gently sop up all the ink that has not soaked in. Then pour a little sweet milk on the spot. and soak it mp from the carpet with fresh cotton batting. It will need to be renewed two or three times, fresh milk and cotton being used each time. and the spot will disappear. Then wash the spot with clean soap-suds. and rub dry with clean cloth. If the ink has Feen allowed to dry in, the milk must remain longer, and be repeated many times.
 Bronzes require no cleaning, if kept uniniured, except careful dusting, so that no dirt shall settle to mar the beauty of the design. But if they unfortunately are greased or spotted, wash with warm soap-suds made quite strong with soap then gently rub, and thoroughly dry. II hy accident or carelessness the bronze is trusted and defaced beyond the power of soap and water to remove, the only safe way is to have it rebronzed, which, near u city is not difficult thing.
 Oil marks on wallpaper, or the marks where inconsiderate people rest their heads, are n sore grief to good house keepers, but they can be removed with out much trouble. Take pipe-clay or fulers-earth. and make into a paste, about as thick as rich cream, with cold water; lay it on the stain gently, with out rubbing it in; leave it on ali night. It will be dry by morning, when it can b" brushed off and unless an old stain the grease spot will have disappeared Hold, renew the application.
 Spots of furniture, from anything hot or from alcohol. can be removed by rubbing hard with sweet-oil and tur- pentinq. When the spots disappear, wash in milk-warm soap-suds, dry quickly, and polish by rubbing briskly with chamois-skin.
 If marble is smoked or soiled, either by bituminous coal or too free use oi kindling wood, Spanish whiting, with a piece of washing soda, rubbed together and wet with only enough water to moisten and make it into paste, will remove the grease and smoke. Dip a piece of flannel in is preparation, and rub the spots while the paste is quite moist. Lave the paste on for hours and, if need be, remove it and renew with fresh paste. When the spots dis. appear, wash the place with clean hot soap-snds, wipe dry, and polish with Chamois-skin.
 Grease on a carpet, if not of long standing, can be readily disposed of by washing the spot with hot soap-suds gallon of water. Use clean cloth tc wash it with, rinse in warm water, and wipe dry.
 When velvet has been wet and be. comes spotted, hold the wrong sidt over steam. and while damp draw the wrong side quickly over warm iron It takes two to do this we'll one to holG the bottom of the iron upward, and the second to draw the velvet across it.
 Paint, pitch, or tar can be removed from cloth or wood by rubbing it witt turpentine. fsthe paint .has becom, dry, put few drops of the turpentin, on the spot. and if all the paint il not removed, repeat the work. Wher entirely gone. rub off with alcohol.
 Ivory that has been spotted, or ha grown yellow, can be made as clear an, fresh as new by rubbing with fine sand paper, and then polishing with finel, Y6IWY}AtTE pnmice-stone.
 IOiONiHS fu1HE1Us--=------~----- - blue-stonc, and mix with four ounces q whiting: add to these four ounces of sof soap and one ounce of soda dissolved i, & very little water. Boil this prepara ton over slow fire fifteen minutes stirring all the time. Lay it on tn marble while hot, with a clean brush Let 1t remain half an hour; then wasl oil in clean suds. wipe dry, and polisf by quick rubbing.
 Grease can be remove d from ston, steps or passages by pouring on it strong soda water boiling hot; then make ful. ler's earth into thin paste with boil. ing water; spread it over the stain O, spot, and let it remain all night. If the grease has soaked or dried in, it may be necessary to repeat this for two or three nights, scrubbing it off each morning With strong soap-suds and lye. When