Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-12-18
HINTS TO HoUsEkEEPERs.

IT is not safe to use rubbers on fruit
cans after they are stretched out and
yellow.
scRUBBING brush, warm soap suds
and plenty of elbow grease will do
wonders on an old dingy oilcloth.
If windows are wiped off once q week
on the inside with slightly dampened
cloth it will save washing 50 often.
WILLOW furniture that has not been
stained or painted can be washed with
salt and water and brush; dry
thoroughly before exposing it TO dust.
ONE can CRATE horseradish without
very badly affecting the eyes, by grating
it in front Of the fire. Open the front
stove doors. Onions can be peeled in
the same way.
If you have a suspicion of moths in
your carpets, scrub your floor with hot
water and salt before relaying them,
and sweep salt over the carpet once or
twice during the month.
WHEN trying to thread a sewing
machine at twilight or in any imperfect
light, place bit of white cloth or paper
back of the needle eye. By this met hod
the eye can be found and filled much
easier.
SILK thread is soaked in acetate of
Lead to increase its weight, and persons
who pass it through the mouth in
threading needles, and then bite it off
with the teeth, have suffered from lead
poisoning.
TO remove grease from any material,
take some spirits of wine, literally dis
solve salt with it, rub the greasy spot,
and it will then require good deal of
examination to find where the grease
was previously present.
To clean porcelain saucepans fill them
half full Of hot water, and putin the
water d teaspoonful OF powdered borax
and let it boil. If this does not remove
all the stains, scour well with a cloth
rubbed with soap and bOrax.
WHERE house is afflicted with CHIN
neys that smoke, it should be borne in
mind that the best preventive to the
nuisance is to open the windows of the
room ten minutes before the fire is lit,
and not simultaneously with the light
ing, as is generally done.
To prepare a mustard plaster: Mix
the mustard with white of an egg, in
stead OF water. The result will be a
plaster which will draw" perfectly well
but will not produce blister, even up
on the skin of an infant, no matter how
long it is allowed to remain upon the
part.
To properly sharpen a carving knife
the carver ought to be held at an angle
Of twenty to twenty-five degrees on the
steel. When the other side of the
blade is turned, you must be careful to
preserve the same angle. Then draw
the steel from heel to point against the
edge, using only slight pressure.
SPIRITS of ammonia is. the best thing
to clean hair-brushes with, as it does
not soften the bristles like soap or soda.
If teaspoonful of ammonia is mixed
with quart of water the brush need
only be dipped in the solution for
moment and all grease is removed. The
brush should then be rinsed in cold
water, shaken well and dried in the air,
but not in the sum-
The squeaking of shoes is due to the
rubbing of the upper upon the under
sole. This is prevented by putting
soapstone powder between the two
thicknesses OF leather, which acts as a
sort OF lubricator. A shoe which has
squeaked can be cured by the dealer or
cobbler simply by ripping the soles
apart, putting In soapstone, and sew
ing or pegging the leather together
again.
AT recent meeting of the London
Medical Society DR.. Blake stated that
extraction or lncision of teeth was un-
necessary. He was able 20 cure the
most desperate case of toothache, he
said, unless the case was connected
with rheumatism, by the application of
the following remedy to the diseased
tooth: Alum, reduced to an impalpa-
BILE powder, two drains; nitrous spirits
of ether, seven drains; mix and apply
to tooth.