The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-27
HousehoId Hints.

Use a penny to remove paint spots from glass.
Different lnyors Of cake should be Kept in
separate boxes.
To take spots of paint from wood, lay a thick
coating Of lime and soda mixed ove- it. letting it
stay twenty-four hours. then wash off with warm
water and the spots will disappear.
Coffee pounded in q mortar and roasted on an
iron plate. sugar burned on hot Goals and yine-
car boiled with myrhh and sprinkled on the
floor and furniture of q sick room ara excellent
deodorizers.
A! handy furniture polish. highly praised by a
housekeeper, is a mixture of olive oil. one part.
and vinegar, two parts. Apply 1t to the furni-
ture with q canton-hanpe cloth. Rub dry with
another cloth of the same material
10 beating cake beat from the bottom of tho
mixine-bowl with q wooden spoon, bringing it
up full and high with each stroke. and as soon
as the Ingredients are fairly and smoothly
mixed stop beating or your cake will be tough.
A dark carpet often looks dusty so soon after
it mas beer swept that you know it does not
need sweeping again. so wet q cloth or sponge,
wiring il almost dry and wipe off tho dust. A
few drops Of ammonia in the water will brighten
the colors.
Scientific authority claims that it is q mistake
70 clean brass with acid, as it soon becomes
dull after such treatment. Sweet oil and putty
powder followed by soap and water is recon
mended as one of the best mediums for bright
ening brass or copper.
There are a certain number Of toilet appoint
nents that every one should keep in a conven-
lent place, well corked but ready for use.
Among these the first is ammonia. which is IN
eGusled in its cleansing properties. Then comes
vaseline, glycerine, borax. alum. camphor aud
alcohol. Every one of these drugs is needed.
If one is feverish or the breath not quite sweet.
a few drops of camphor in a tumbler of water
will be found excellent 10 rinse out the mouth
ard throat.
The following ia rather a novel way to remove
ink stains from linen, but the discoverer claims
il is unfailing, and it certainly is harmless:
Melt some pure tsllow and dip the spot in II,
then wash out the tallow and all traces OF tHe
ink stain will disappear. The suet tba. en-
velops sheep kidneys when rendered out makes
pure tallow. Keep a little gallipot of 1t in the
house. and when young hopeful comes homs
with bis cuffs spotted with ink it will be easy TO
remove the stains.
The yolk of eggs made into a plaster, with
honey and flour, of about the consistency OF
mustard paste, gives speedy relief to one afflict-
ed with boi.s. The white, used as a coating for
scalds and burns. excludes the air. which so az
eravates the sufferings of a burned person. lt
is softer than collodion, therefore better,
and is always at hand: it is more cool
ing than the once-popular sweet oil
and cotton. TIE white. beaten with
sugar, is invaluable in bronchial affections.
juice may be added with GOOD results. Cider
vinegar may be substituted for the lemon juice
when the latter is rot available. Leather chair
seats may be revived by rubbing them with
well beaten white of eggs. Leather binding of
books may also be cleaned by this method, but
white Roman bindings should be washed with
q solft flannel saturated in soapsuds.