Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-02-02
HOUSEHOLD INFORMATION.
Some Suggestions Which May Prove
OF Uae to tho Busy House,
keeper.


Smoke stains are removed by soaking
the ivory in naphtha; yellow stains by
rubbing with powdered pumice-stone
and soapsuds. If the article is such as
can be put under glass, wet it with soap
suds and put it in the sun under a
glass globe, wetting it frequently. An
other method is to soak it in a dilute
sulphuric acid bath, or in soda bath,
using ten ounces of soda TO three pints
of water.
Belts, shoes, gloves, ETC., of white
kid may be cleaned in the following
manner: Mix together equal quanti-
ties of finely powdered alum and pipe
clay or fuller's earth. Dip piece OF
flannel in the dry powder and rub the
soiled kid with it. When thoroughly
cleaned brush with n piece of clean
flannel. and then rub the kid with
bran to remove all the earth and alum.
Wipe with soft, clean cloth.
Cut pound of mutton suet into fine
ghrcds and put il in II stone or earthen
bowl. Place the bowl in pan of hot
water on the range, stirring frequently
until there is enough of the melted
tallow 10 fill half-pint cup. Turn this
tallow into n bowl, and as it begins to
thicken beat into it half teaspoonful
of carbolic acid. This is excellent for
chapped hands, and is also good 10 rub
on the feet when they are tired or when
one has chilbains.
For light furs, mix together n pint of
flour, pint of bran and tablespoon
full of fuller's earth. Brush and shake
the furs; then lay them on table and
rub with the above mixture, using a
coarse piece of flannel. and rubbing
the wrong way of the fur. Shake out
all the cleaning material and go over
the fur again in the same way, using
only bran this time. Shake out the
bran and wipe the fur with cheesecloth.
Dark rurs are cleaned in the same way,
save that hot bran alone is used. Heat
the bran in n double boiler, or it may be
heated in the oven.
There are two causes of greasy lamps.
The oil expands in a warm room. and,
if too much oil has been put into the
lamp. naturally n little will leak out.
The other and more common cause of
oil on the outside of the lamp is that
the wick is kept TOO high when the
lamp is not lighted. The wick draws
the oil to the surface. When the lamp
is burning the oil is consumed, but
when it is not burning the oil accumu-
lates at the top of the burner if the
wick is not turned low. When filing
lamps do not fill to the top, and keep
the wiclis low.
Feathers may sometimes be deodor-
lied by exposing them to high tenn
perature. This is accomplished by
steamng them. us is done at some
cleaning establishments, or by bak-
ing them in the oven, or by exposing
them to the heat of the sun. AT times
all these methods fail. The following
method is always sure to be satisfac-
tory: Put the feathers in a large bag
of white mosquito netting and soak
them for two hours in chloride of lime
water, then rinse in several waters and
dry in the open air. The feathers must
be put loosely in the bag and the bag
shaken frequently while they are dry
ing. Allow half pound of chloride of
lime to eight paifuls of water, and be
sure that all the lime is dissolved
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