The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-12-11

III NicdiIliS slINeT hSIOSellS uldy I've useC
with advantage.
Carpets may lie frightened by busting
with a damp flannel mop,
Ants may be driven "ut by sprinkling the
floor with Persian powder.
Stains on wood can be removed with
strong vinegar or salts of lemon.
Egg stains can be removed by rubbing
with common table salt.
Leather chair-seats may be revived by
rubbing them well-beaten white of egg.
Sandpaper will whiten ivory knife
handles that may have become yellow with
use or age.
Simplest polish for oiled furniture. Rub
billed furniture with wooden cloth saturated
slightly with oil.
A brilliant black varnish for iron stoves
and fre-places is made by stirring ivory
black into ordinary shellac vernish
White paint that has become discolored
may he nicely cleaned by using little
whiting in the water for washing
A good cement for china is ordinary
Garage varnish; if put together neatly the
fracture will be hardly perceptible, AMI it
is not effected by water
To clean bronzed chandelier, ,lamps, ETC.
These articles should Only be busted with Il
feather brush or soft cloth, as washing will
take Oifthe bronzing.
Galvanized iron pals are not desirable
receptacles for drinking water. The zinc
coating is quickly affected by the water,
forming poisonous oxide of zinc.
To clean looking-g g-glasses.-Sponge down
the glass with gum and water, equal parts;
then dust down with whiting and finish
with an old soft silk handkerchief
The most severe cough can at once be re-
IN we'd by Rel Star Cough Cure. "Give it to
your children hy all means" SAYS Prof Will
liams, ex-State Chemist of Delaware, who
found it wonderfully efTcacious. Price, only
twenty-five cents n bottle.
Carpets, after the dust has been beaten
out, may be frightened by scattering upon
them corn meal mixed with salt and then
sweeping it of: mix salt and meal in equal
proportious.i
Cement for china. glass, etc.-Dissolve
half an ounce gum acacia in a wine-glass of
boiling water, add plaster of paris to form a
thick paste; apply with brush to the parts to
be united
For cleaning brasses belonging to mahog-
any furniture use either powdered whiting
or scraped rottenStone, mixed with sweet oil,
and rub on with chamois skin.
Vinegar is better than ice for keeping
fish. BY putting little vinegar on the fish
it will keep perfectly well even in very hot
weather. Fish is often improved in favor
under this treatment.
To prevent polished steel from rusting after
cleaning, and when not in use, take cloth,
with very little sweet oil on it, and wipe
the articles over so as slightly but evenly to
oil the surface.
Steel knives which are not in general
use may be kept from rusting if they are
dipped in a strong solution of soda-One
part water TO four of soda then wipe dry,
roll in flannel and keep in dry place.
Slippery-elm bark is a good remedy for
scalv boilers, and has been successfully used
for number OF years. 1t is placed in the
boiler and left there, the scales falling off in
flakes, which should at once be removed.
Silver becoming black may be avoided by
keeping that which is not often used in can
ton flannel bags, with small bags about the
size Of thimble filled with bits of gum
camphor. packed in around the articles
$4,000 were spent in eighteen years by
Prof. c. A. Donaldson, of Louisville, XIV. in
trying To get rid of his rheumatism but he
found no relief until at last he used st. Ja-
cobs Oil, which speedily cured him.
Insects may be destroyed with hot alum.
Put it in hot water, and let il boil until the
alum is dissolved. Apply hot, with brush,
and all creeping things are instantly de-
stroyed without danger to human life or in
jury to property.
To Clean Steel Ornaments.-Dip small
brush into some paralfine oil and then into
some emery powder-such as is used in the
knife machines-and well brush the orna-
menls, and all the rust will soon come off
polish with dry leather and duster.
Places at table for guests at dinner may
be designated in this way; Have an alpha
bet made of tin, have each letter about three
inches high, and the little tin forms deep
enough to hold little sand or wet moss.
Then I'll the forms with tiny flowers and
leaves.
To Remove Grease from Cloth.-Drop on
the spot some oil Of tartar or salt of worm
wood which has beeu leit in a damp place
till il turns into fluid then Immediately
wash the place with lukewarm water, and
then with cold water, and the spot will dis