The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-30
TIMELY HINTS.
Suggestions to Housel<eepers for the
House Cleaning Season.

Suggestions to Housekeepers for the
House Cleaning Season.
Mortar and paint may be removed
from window-glass with hot, sharp
vinegar.
Grained woods should be washed
with cold tea, and then, after being
wiped dry, rub with linseed OIL
Remove flower-pot stains from win
dow-sills by rubbing with fine wood
ashes and rinse with clean water
Strong BRINE may be used to advan-
tage In washing bedsteads Hot
alum-water is also good for this pur-
pose.
Drain-pipes and all places that are
sour or impure may be eleansed with
lime-water or carbolic acid or chloride
of lime.
Cayenne pepper blown into che
cracks where ants congregate will
drive them away. The same remedy
is also good for mice.
Hellebore sLA,inkled on the floor at
night destroys cockroaches. They eat
it and are poisoned. 1t should be
swept up each morning.
Plush goods and all articles dyed
with aniline colors, faded from expos
ure to light, will look as bright as ever
after sponging with chloroform.
II the wall about the stove has been
smoked by the stove. cover the black
patches with gum-shellac and they will
not strike through either paint or cal
Gimme.
Carpets should be thoroughly beaten
on the wrong side first and then on the
right side, after which spots may be re-
moved by the use of ox-gall or ammo
MIA and water.
Whole cloves are now used to exter-
inmate the merciless and industrious
moth. 1t is said they are more effect
ual as destroying agent than either
tobacco, camphor, or cedar-shavings.
A good moth powder is made of
lupuline Ground hops), dram; Scotch
snuff, 2 ounces; camphor-gum, ounce;
black pepper, ounce; cedar sawdust,
ounces. Mix thoroughly and strew
among the furs or woolens to be pro-
tected.
To remove wine, fruit, or iron stains
from linen wet the spot with solution
of hypo-sulphite of soda ana scatter
some pulverized tartaric acid upon it;
then wash out as usual. Strong vine
gar can be substituted for the tartar,c
acid.
Furniture needs cleaning as much as
other woodwork. 1t may be washed
with warm soap-suds quickly, wiped
dry and then rubbed with an oily
cloth. To polish it rub with rotten
stone and sweet oil. Clean off the oil
and polish with chamois-skin.
When hard-finished walls have been
calcimined the soiled coats should be
washed or scraped off before a new one
is put on. This is the most disagreea-
BILE part of the process. The furni-
ture should be covered, as the lime
makes spots that are removed with
difficulty, especially upon black walnut.
Two ounces of soda dissolved in a
quart of hot water will make a ready
and useful solution for cleaning old
painted work preparatory to repair
ing. This mixture, in the above pro-
portion, should be applied when warm
and the woodwork afterward washed
with water to remove all traces OF
soda.
To cleanse spots from broadcloth or
wooden goods take half an ounce each
of glycerine, alcohol and sulphuric
ether, two ounces of aqua ammonia,
half an ounce Of powdered CASTLE soap,
and add water enough to make one
quart of the mixture. Use with brush
or sponge and rinse with pure water.
To clean marble the following is
recommended: Common soda, two
pounds; powdered pumice-stone and
finely powdered chalk. one pound each.
Pass through fine sieve and mix to
thin paste with water. Rub it we'll all
over the marble and the stains will be
removed; then wash the marble over
with soap and water and it will be as
clean as it was at first ChicGgo Ne1Us.