The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-08
USEFUL HINTS.

To REMOVE wheel grease from wooden
material without iniuring the color OF
the fabric, use good bcnzine.
The quickest and best way to boil milk
is to put it into tin dish and set that
into kettle of boiling water. Thus
scorching is avoided,
A SURGEON in the German army calls
attention Of all who have to do with
horses to the danger Of using the peck
ct-handkcrchef TO wipe away any foam
which may have been thrown upon their
clothes Chambers have been communi-
rated in that way.
"TmR surcst way TO preserve your
books, says bibliophilc, lis TO treat
them rs you woull your children, who
arr sure TO sickcn if confined in an at
mpsphcre which is impure, too hot, too
rold, too damp or too dry. 1t is just
the same with the progeny OF lltera-
uWc.'
70 REMOVE h,hy taste from game :
Pare 6 fresh lemon very carefully with.
uut breaking the thin white inside skin,
put inside wild duck and keep it there
iorty-cight hours, and all the tishy taste
so disagrecablc in wild fowl will be re-
moved Every twelve hours remove
the lemon and replace with fresh one,
\ lemon thus prepared will absorb
unpleasant ilAyors from all meats and
g]le.
ErsoM salts, or sulphate Of magposia,
dissolved in beer, together with small
quantity of dcJtino, or artificial gum,
applied 10 Il pane Of glass with a brush,
will, on rryatallizing, produce the iden-
tical designs formed on glass by frost IN
cold weather, with this improvement,
that the liquid may receive any color
whatever at the option Of the operator
4 FICTITIOUS amber for manufacturing
purposes is prepared by melting pure
hcachcd shcllar and keeping it over the
! fire until it runs clear with care to pre-
vent burning. 1t may j poured into
molds Of the size of pieces required.
| The operation requires considerable
| management. The darkest and hmdcst
pieces Of gum copal are also substituted
for amber. The copal may be fused with
| the shcIIar.
TINS is the way to doup lace curtains:
/ Having washed and dried them in the
usual manner, starch and redry them.
I Any number may be prepared in this
way, thus saving the trouble OF making
I starch every time that you wish to put
J them upon the frame. Take the num-
! hcr that yOu are to use Mt once, dip
them into cold blucing water and pass
| them through the wringer This will
not remove the starch it will only put
| them into condition so that when
stretched and dry the mcshes of the
| lace will be clear and froc from starch
| which will not be the case if taken di-
rcctiy ont of hot starch.
The following recipe is said to be
/ murL used in Europe for producing ar
ulicul black walnut. BY its use, it is
claimed, ordinary white woods have i'm
! parted to them the appearance OF the
| most beautiful specimens OF walnut, and
/ are adapted To tine finest cabinet work.
| The process is us follows: The wood,
first thoroughly dried and warmed, is
coated once or twice with strong
| aqueous solution OF extract OF walnut
/ peel. When half dried, the wood thus
treated Is brushed with Il solution com
pound Of one part (by weight of BIZ
rLrOmatc Of potassa hr five parts of boil
mI water; and, after drying thoroughly,
is rubbed and polished. BY this trent
mcut the color is said to be fixed in the
wood tO the lopth of ONE wplfth to one