Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-05-26

back the lost color.
Linolcum should not be washed, but
rubbed with a soft rag dipped in lin
seed oil and then polished.
Fix an IRON holder by a long string
to Your housewives apron if you wish
to avoid burnt fingers.
The disagreeable smell of water
proof garment may hc removed by
wrapping it in fresh hay.
Warm applications for the spine
and stomach and between the shout
dcrs are valuable and aid digestion.
Dishes should always be warmed for
the table by immersing them in hot
water, and not by standing them in
hot oven.
For removing the brown from
earthenware, after being in the oven,
rub well with salt, which will take it
of almost directly.
When frying anything in boiling
fat, if piece of bread is pnt in the
pan it prevents its burning, and keeps
the fat at the same heat.
A little kerosene put on the dust
cloth will brighten furniture WON
derfully, and prevent dust from flying
from one piece to the other.
Ink stains on white material may
be removed most effectively by wash
ing first in a strong brine, and then
wetting the spot in lemon juice.
To remove the smell of new paint,
lay bunch of hay in the room and
sprinkle it with 4 little chloride of
lime. Close the room for several
hours.
Equal parts of milk and water, APP
piled with small sponge, will make
the leaves OF a palm or rubber plant
look like wax, and prevent them turn
ing brown.
The addition of little powdered
borax to cold starch tends to give the
linen extra stiffness, and a little tur-
pentine put into the boiled starch
adds luster.
Paint stains may be removed by ap-
plying turpentine at once. Turpen-
tine is also good for all kinds of cuts
and bruises on the human flesh, bnt
will cause dumb animals intense pain.
The ideal kitchen table is covered
with linoleum or zinc. Either is cas-
Ter to keep clean than wood, and on
the uncovered table you can place
hot dishes without fear of scorch-
marks.
A few forms for use in hanging up
clothes may be purchased at any hard
ware store for five to ten cents, and
will keep garment presentable
great deal longer than when it is hung
upon nail or hook.
Colored cotton fabrics will not fade
by subsequent washing if placed in
boiling water, to which has been
added three gills of salt to every four
quarts of water. Do not remove the
cloth until the water is cold.
Javelle water, used to remove tea
and coffee, grass and fruit stains from
linen, is made thus: Mix we'll in an
earthen vessel one pound of salsoda,
five cents WORTH of chloride of lime
and two quarts of soft water.
1t is not popularity known, says a
contributor to Good Health, that fruit
acids are germicidal. The juice Of
the lemen is as deadly to cholera
germs as corrosive sublimate, or sui
phur fumes, or formaldehyde, or any
other disinfectant. 1t is so powerful
germicide that if the juice of one
lemon is squeezed into glass of
water, that is then left standing ten
or fifteen minutes, the water will be
disinfected; it makes little difference
where the water has been obtained, or
whether it has been boiled or filtered.
This is fact worth knowing, for any
OF US may find himself under circum-
stances in which it is impossible to get
either boiled or filtered water. In
such a case the juice of a lemon will
purify the water perfectly.
Light soups, light desserts and light
meats should have the preference in
warm weather.