The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-04-10
THE ADVOCATE.
HINTS TO HOUsEKBEPERs.

To polish iewelry use paste o
powdered chalk and spirits Of wine.
Warm dishes for the table by i'm
mersing them in hot water, not b.
standing them on a not stove.
Mix stove backing with spirits o
turpentine. 1t will take off the rust
polish easier and stay glossy longer
than when water is used.
When YOU are hurried and 8
postage stamp will not stick, moister
it and rub 1t on the flap of an envelope
and then quickly put it in its place.
A small teaspoonful of powdered
borax added to bowl of cold starch
will give more stiffness to linen than
any of the numerous things you have
tried.
To polish brass kettles that are
very much furnished, first rub with
solution OF oxalic acid, then dry and
polish with rotten stone or the finest
emery.
To clean marble boil four ounces of
soft soap with four of powdered
whitening and one of soda. Apply
hot, and let remain on the marble for
a dav or two.
Add tablespoonful of borax to a
pan of hot soapsuds; put your table
silver in it and let it stand two hours;
rinse it with clear water and polish
with soft cloth or chamois.
There is false economy which costs
more than it returns, such as saving
old medicine bottles, partially-used
prescriptions, the tack taken from the
carpet, or working, days to save or
make that which can be bought for
few cents.
A new method of cleaning clothes
is suggested. Dip the clothes brush
in the yolk of All egg, so that the
bristles are quite wet. Allow it TO dry
and then use. This treatment has, it
is said, the effect to make the brushing
especially effective.
To keep tins in a state of dazzling
brilliancy wash them inside and out
with hot water and soda. Dry them
and rub the outside with paste made
of whiting and water When this has
dried, rub it off with soft cloth and
polish with leather and dry whiting.
To clean silver, first wash to remove
all the grease from the silver, then rub
with wooden cloth wet with ammonia
and whiting, and polish on the chased
and filagree parts with tooth brush.
This whiting is wet with ammonia
and made into cakes or boxes, and
agents are around selling it for fifty
cents box, that the probability is,
cost them ten cents. 1t is nice to
clean glass windows and kinds of
glassware.
Common cooking soda is the
'bicarbonate of soda" of the druggist
and chemist. The soda and the
carbonic acid easily set at liberty from
It are antisepic, disinfectant and
and Oh these accounts
useful. Though we are unable to
fully explain why this substance
should be so remarkably effective in
revealing pain and promoting the
recovery from burns tine fact remains.
Q) If the burning or
is not severe apply dry
ioda covering over all the injured parts
Ind keep it on. The layer may be
Is thick as heavy pasteboard or
Kicker. If a blister does not form the
'elief from pain will be almost if not
luite complete, and after short time
10 futher inconvenience will felt
IN removing the application. (2) For
leeper burns whether blistered or not,
{ the skin is not broken, lay on linen
r cotton rags, or pieces of cloth-soft
inen is much preferable-dipptd in a
oda solution made by stirring table,
poonful of soda in pint of water.
ieep the cloth moistened with it. (3)
or severe, deep burns, where the skin :
ONES of, and the formation of matter
pus) follows, apply the cloth and solu- :
on in the same way, and keeping
hem constantly moist with the solu-
on. But as often as any matter !,
underneath, remove the :
oths very carefully, so as not to "
isturb any new-forming flesh, and :
irefully wash off the matter with the