Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-11-01
Washin9tou STANDARD
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Lemon Juice removes stains from
the hands.
Two or three slices of lemon in a
cup OF strong tea will cure a nervous
headache
\ dash of lemon in plain water is
an excellent tooth wash. 1t not only
removes tartar lut sweetcns the
breath.
Mud stains on dark dresses, when
they will not yield to the clothes
brush, generally disappear when
rubbed with raw potato.
An easy way OF cleaning flat irons is
to rub them on knife board. This
will make them bright and smooth
and lessen the toll of ironing.
To remove fruit and wine stains
cover with salt and then pour boiling
water through them. Borax water is
also useful for taking out stains.
Lemon peel land also orange
should be all saved and dried. They
are a capital substitute for kindling
wood. A handful will revive a dying
fire.
Wash the bristles OF silver and
nickel-backed brushes in lukewarm
water and rinse in clear cold water.
Polish the backs with flannel dipped
in ammonia.
Glycerine and lemon juice, half and
half, on bit OF absorbent cotton, is
the best thing in the world wherewith
TO moisten the lips and tongue of q
fever-parched patient.
The juice of lemon, taken in hot
water on awakening in the morning,
is an excellent liver corrective, and for
stout women is better than any anti
fat medicine ever invented.
No family should be without lemons.
Their uses are almost too many for
enumeration. A teaspoonful of the
juice in u small cup of black coffee
will certainly relieve bilious head
ache.
When stitching with a machine on
muslin. gauze or other thin material
lay it over thin paper. This will pre-
vent pickering, and after the work is
done the paper may easily be torn
away.
To clean fnc lace try putting it
away in wheat flour for "a hours.
Unless it be very badly soiled it will
then be found quite clean and will
only need to be shaken free OF the
-four to look like new.
A simple way of removing thorn
from a child's hand is to press small
key over it. When the key is re.
moved. the thorn will probably be
found sticking out enough to allow il
to be caught hold of and drawn out by
tweezers. When the thorn refuses To
come out q bread poultice should be
put on for an hour or 90 to draw it, az
it is very dangerous for it to remain
in the flesh any length of time.
Sprinkle hellebore on the floor at
night and the poor cockroach will
suddenly depart. If there is paint Oh
your window glass rub it with good
vinegar and the paint will disappear.
Steel knives can be polished with q
little baking soda put into brick dust
Cayenne pepper, shaken into holes, OF
little chloride Of lime or pounded
glass mixed with corn meal, is said "a
have good results in making rats
vanish.
Brass candlesticks. andirons or or
naments which have blackened with
neglect may be cleansed very easily
with oxalic acid-which, by the way
is poison-rubbed on with fame
rag; they need only little polishing
with chamois skin after this. have
seen brass so long neglected, as in Tho
case of a memorial slab set into the
wall of church, as to be perfectly
black, having the appearance Of slate
with very little trouble oxalic acid re-
stored it to its original brilliance. Ir
ordinary cases brass can be cleaned
and frightened with powdered rotter
stone mixed to paste with turpen
tine.