Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
How to Clean Various Articles.

If you want TO clean anything in your
house from the daintiest satiu pin
cushion, gloves, ribbons. laoes, not
only the common ones now the fashion,
but points of all kinds, thread, Duch-
ess, etc. breakfast caps, worsted arti-
Giles, such as hoods. sacques, tides of
all descriptions, and 80 on down to
lounge pillows, chair backs, carpets,
use rOselIght.
For ali articles excepting furniture
ard carpets put the roseiight in bowl,
and rab the article as though washing
continue with clean roseijeht until the
article ceases To color the rOselish t,
which resembles water.
For stated furniture and carpets,
pour roselight on the spot. After it
has evaporated pour more, ANA go on
until the spot is entirely gone. What
becomes Of the grease? l am not
enough OF chemist to tell yoa. Bat l
know that it has disappeared. and the
roselight has Disappeared.
Let me caution any one using it
against being near a fire Ur light.
have had kid gloves take fire and burn
mp while hanging over the mantel-edge
to dry; and with only medium fire III
the crate.
Roselight leaves an unpleasant odor;
but if the articles are hung in the air
it disappears.
It never changes the color OF anything
in the least.
When a grease.spot appears on a
dining-reom carpet, pour u little rose
- Hha, al hn
come too soOty to wear, dip them in
roselight and shake them, repeating the
operation till cieansed.
To remove fruit or coffee stains from
table linen, pour boiling water through
the ttain, before washing. The water
must boil.
If ripe cherries are put in water the
wormy ones will always rise.-I House
hold:
SHE DOES HER Own WoRK.-Does
her own work? Does she 4? What of
it? Is it any disgrace? Is she any
less q true woman, less worthy Of re-
spect than she who sits in silks and
satins aud is vain of fingers that never
labor? We listened to person the
other day, who. speaking of new
welded life, said sneeriDgly, "Oh! she
does her own work." The words, and
the tone of contempt in which they
we're utt. red, betokened a narrow, ig
noble mind, better fitted for any place
than q country whose institutions rest
on honorable iabsr us ore Of the chief
corner-stones. They evinced false
idea of the true basis of society, of
the true womaDhood, of genuine Dobil.
ity. They showed the detestable spirit
of caste or rank, which certain class
are trying to establish-a caste whose
sole foundation is money, which is the
weakest kind Of rank known to civiliza-
ton. Mind, manners, morals, all that
enters into good character, are of no
account with these social snobs. Posi-
ton in their stiited ranks is bought
with gold, and every additional dollar
is another round in the ladder by which
elevation is gained in their esteem and
society.
A LARGE ELEPHANT Boston culture
is very much excited by the arrival at
that port of the biggest elephant that
ever set foot In this country. He is
sixty years old over ten feet high, and
weighs four tons and half. His trunk
is SO big that the Custom House officers
couldn't handle it to see whether j,
contained any dutiable articles or not.
But he is to go to New York and the
freight cars not being big enough, nor
the bridges high enough, he will prob.
ably have to walk. With him are two
others nearly AS big and all three are
valued at about $4,000.
POP Corn BALLs.-Pound or roll the
pop corn fine, pour over this boiled
moIasses as for candy, stir it we'll, but
ter the hands and mould into balls.
An inrkeeper in Wytheville, Vir-