The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-17
THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE.
How She May Avoid vexatious
Stains on the Fur
niture.
What to Do When Baby Drums
the Carpet with Fried
Chicken.
A New Wrinkle in Roast Duck, Not
Wrought by Age-When to Strike
for a New Bonnet.

There is nothing more vexing to the right
eous soul of good wife than the unsightly
stains which through carelessness or awk-
wardness disfgure her furniture, carpets OF
linen, and which entail SO much and fire.
quently such fruitless effort in their re-
meval. Some of this annoyance may be
done away with if. when your stupid guests
spill coffee on your finest damask, you rub
the stain before the cloth has been laun-
dried with mixture made by dissolvinR
the yolk of an egg in little tepid water
and adding few drops Of wine. Wash the
mixture off with clean warm water, and the
stain will vanish with it. Fruit stains may
be removed from linen by washing in very
hot water, with little soda. If they are very
obstinate stretch the stained part over cup
of boiling water until thoroughly saturated
with steam, and while 80 holding it with one
hand rub salts of lemon into it with the
other until the stain disappears; then leave
it soaking in the hot water for a time, which
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a last resort ..ippipg the cloth in weak
solution of chloride of lime which has been
strained through muslin. The danger in
this lies not so much in the strength of the
solution as in the length of time the ma
terial ID left in it, and after using, the
stained part should be washed thoroughly
in cold water. Tea stains usually succumb
to ap application of glyoer,ne and egg yolk
washed off W Nj clear water, but if this fails
dissolve a quarter of pound each of chic
ride of lime and common soda in three
quarts of boiling water, and dip the stains
in the solution, which should be bottled up
and ready for emergencies: Wax drippings
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for lighting purposes can BE- removed with
hot iron and'a piece of blotting paper, or
by dipping the part in eau de cologne, which
renders the wax brittle, SO that it can easily
be rubbed off with the finger.
used before the ink is dry; otherwise s' the
best thing is oxalic acid, applied as for
fruit stains. Another practical method is
to spread the stained part over plate and
/ rub II with some butter and salt till the
stains disappear, then wash with soap and
water. Sodr buttermilk removes mildew,
blotting paper, with q wash in warm soap
and water, causes paint to disappear.
~ Wine stains should be washed out in cold
water mixed with few drops of ammonia
and spirits of wine. If, unfortunately, the
cloth has been wetted before the stains are
yellow soap and lay on IT some thickly
made starch. Rub we'll and expose to the
sun until the stain vanishes. Sometimes
when space is available, the linen is laid on
the grass and soap is substituted for starch,
when the stains will disappear in two or
three hours.
Next in consideration are the carpets and
furniture, to which accidents without num-
Der continually occur. If grease spatters
your favorite Wilton, mix half glass of
Fuller's earth and the same amount of
zskgnesia with boiling water, apply it hot,
spots may be removed with hot iron and
brown paper. To take grease stains from
leather apply benzine and then rub over
with whisked white of egg, and to remove
them from marble make paste of Fuller's
earth and benzine, lay it on thickly, leave it
for twelve hours, and then wash off with
warm water.
Wash ink stains from carpets with milk,
and afterward with hot water, when fresh.
Old ink stains must first be wetted, then
rubbed with salts of lemon and washed
quickly. Ink stains on mahogany must be
obliterated by touching the spot with q
feather dipped in teaspoonful of water to
which few drops of nitre have been added.
and directly the stain disappears. Rub it
over quickly with cloth dipped in cold
water.
Apply linseed oil and turpentine in equal
parts with soft cloth to the white spots on
your furniture. Rub the oil stains on your
in warm water. Clean your milky looking
water bottles by filling them with potato
pairing, vinegar, and very little soda; let
them stand for q little, shake we'll, and
wash in cold water. And brighten your
silver by boiling it up in soapy water for a
few hours, cover with whiting moistened
with some spirits, dry in the oven, and rub
off and polish with channels.
Here is a new wrinkle with regard to
roasted duck that some good wife, fond
and foolish and out of fashion enough to
care about pleasing her husband, may en-
JOY serving up to him some night when he
comes home little more perple1ed and
annoyed with business than usual.
in the ordinary way with sage and
onion dressing, score it deeply with the
carving knife, scatter into the burrows SO
formed salt and white or black pepper, and
pour over it glass or two Of Burgundy
warmed, not heated, SO that it will not chill
the duck. Basic the bird with the wine a
few moments, cover it up, and let the seas
oning soak we'll in, and when it is served to
your lord and master it will be as much of
a revelation to him as was the far-famed
pie of flour and twenty blackbirds," which
was set for the king. When this last juicy
morsel is still lingering in his mouth, max
ing life thing indeed worth living, then
ask him for your new spring. boz net or tell
is coming for nice long visit or that you
must go and hear Patti, and see how he will
rustic his angel wings and tell you that he
only lives for the sake of carrying out your
wishes and supplying your wants, and the
only thing needful to perfect bliss is visit
from his mother-in-law.