The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-06-03
HINTS TO HOUSEWIVES.
Tiinely Suggestions for the House-Cleaa.
ing Season.

Mortar and paint may be removes
from window glass with hot, sharI
vinegar.
Grained woods should be washed will
cold tea, and then, after being wipeC
dry, rubbed with linseed oil.
Remove fiower-pot stains from win
dow-sills by rubbing with fine wood
ashes and rinse with clean water.
Strong brine may be used to advant.
age in washing bedsteads. Hot alum.
water is also good for this purpose.
/ Drain-pipes and all places that are
sour or impure may be cleansed with
Iime-water or carbolic acid OF chloride
of lime.
| Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks
where ants congregate will drive them
away. The same remedy is also good
! for mice.
Hellebore sprinkled on the floor
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 exposure to
light, will look as bright as ever after
sponging with chloroform.
If 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 calci-
mine.
Carpets should be thoroughly beaten
on the wrong side first and then on tho
right side, after which spots may be re-
moved by the use of ox-gan or ammonia
and water.
Whole cloves are now used to extermi-
nate the mercilcss and industrious moth.
1t is said that they are more effectual as
destroying agent than either tobacco,
camphor, or cedar shavings.
A good moth-powder is made of lupu-
line (ground hops), l dram; Scotch
snuff, 2 ounces; camphor-gum. / ounce;
black pepper, 1 ounce; cedar sawdust.
ounces. Mix thoroughly and strew
among the furs and wolens to be pro-
tectcd-
To remove wine. fruit or iron stains
from linen, wet the spot with solution
of hyposulphite of soda and scatter some
pulverized tartaric acid upon it, then
wash out as usual. Strong vinegar can
be substituted for the tartaric acid.
Furniture needs cleaning as other
woodwork. 1t may be washed with
warm soapsuds,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-inished walls have been
calcimined the soiled coats should be
washed or scrapcd off before 4 new one
is put on. This is the most disagreeable |
part of the process. The furniture 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 ready |
and useful solution for cleaning oil |
painted work preparatory to repairing.
This mixture. in the above proportion,
should be applied when warm and the |
woodwork afterward washed with
water TO remove all traces of soda.
To cleanse spots from broadcloth or
woolen 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 OF sponge
and rinse with pure water.
To clean marble the following is re-
Common soda, pounds;
powdered pumice-stone and finely
powdered chalk. l pound each. Pass
through fine sieve and mix to thin
paste with water. Rub it well all over
the marble and the stains will be re-
moved; then wash the marble over
with soap and water and it will be as
clean as it was al first