The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-06-10
USEFUL HINTS.

| Mustard should be mixed with watel
that has been boiled and allowed to cool
Hot water destroys its essential quail
ties, and raw cold water might cause il
to fermcnt. Put the mustard in cur
with small pinch Of salt, and mix with
it very gradually sufficient boiling wa.
ter to make it drop from the spoon
without becoming watery.
1t is barbarism to compel children
to eat fat meat, lean meat, or any thing
else to which they may have q repug-
nance, an unconquerablc antipathy
you might as wisely try to make kit
ten cat white beans or a chicken drink
salt water.
To cleanse jewelry-Usc hot water
and clean brush; rub very little
soap on the brush, then dip it into pow.
dered borax and scour well: rinse in
hot water, and rub dry with clean
towel, or chamois is better; silver ban
giles are frightened quickly in the same
way.
To prepare an inyigorating bath-A
teaspoonful or more of powdered borax
thrown into the bath tub while bathing
will communicate velvety softness to
the water and at the same time invigor-
ate and rest the bather: persons troub-
led with nervousness or wakeful nights
will find this kind Of bath great
benefit.
To discover whether bread is adulter-
ated with alum, soak the bread in water
and to the water in which it has been
soaked add a little of the solution of
muriatc of lime. upon which, if any al
um be present, the liquid will be perva-
ded with milkiness; but if the bread be
pure, the liquid will remain limpid. Ra-
tionale-sulphuric acid has stronger
affinity for lime than alumina and po-
tassium, with which it forms alum it
therefore quits those bodies to form sui
phate of lime with the lime of the test
which produces the milkiness.
All sorts of vessels and utensils may
be purified from long-retaincd smells of
every kind in the easiest and most per-
manner by rinsing them out well with
charcoal powder after the grosscr i'm
puritics have been secured off with sand
and water.
A lump of bread about the size of a
billiard ball, tied up in linen bag and
placed in the pot in which green peas
are boiling, will absorb the gases which
oftcntimes send such an unpleasant cd,
to the regions above.
Soft soap should be kept in ?. dry place
in the cellar, and not nscd until three
months old.
The following receipt will restore the
original polish of furniture, especially
in the case of such articles as pianos,
fancy tables, cabinets, lacquered ware,
etc, which have become furnished by
use: Make polish by putting half an
ounce of shelac, the same quantity of
gum lac, and quarter of an ounce of
gum sandarac into pint of wine. Put
them all together in a stone bottle, near
the fire, shaking it very often. AS soon
rs the gums are dissolved il is ready for
use. Then take a roller of wooden rags
soft old broadclOth win do nicely
put little Of the polish on it, also
few drops of linseed oil. Rub the SUI
face to be polished with this, going
round and round, over small space at
a time, until ii begins to be quite smooth.
Then finish by a second rubbing with
spirits of wine and more of the polish
Furniture thus treated will have a bril-
liant lustre, equal to new.
Grained wood should be washed with
cold tea.
Ceilings that have been smoked by a
kerosene lamp should be washed off with
soda water.
g Cut het bread or cake with hot knife
and it will not be clammy.
Camphor placed in drawers or trunks
will prevent mice from doing them any
injury.
Carpets should be thoroughly beaten
on the wrong side first and then on the
right, after which spots may be rcmov-
cd by the use of OK gall or ammonia and
water. lfpaper has been laid under the |
carpet, all dust may be easily removed
with it without raising any. The
warmth OF floors is greatly increased by |
having carpet lining or layers of paper
under it.
To preserve eggs dip each one into |
melted pork lard, rubbing it into the
shell with the finger; then pack it in an
old fig drum or butter firkin, setting
every egg upright with the small end
downward. Eggs thus prepared in
August, directly after harvest, have
been eaten with relish the following
January.
Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks
where ants congregate will drive them
away. The same remedy is good also
for mice.
Furniture needs cleaning as much as
,thcr woodwork. 1t may be washed
with warm soap suds, quickly wiped
Try and then rubbed off with an oily
10th.
A nice soft soap for washing dishes
AN be secured by placing in an old dish
and occasionally adding watcr), all the
craps and bits Of hard soap which arc
90 small TO use for washing.
To s,ifien Grape veil. always keep it
oldcd and pressed under heavy book.
md when it looks gray. take alcohol
nough to wet it thoroughly, then shake
I dry, fold it nicely and press.