Middletown transcript., 1904-09-17
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW
The little soft cotton dish mops make
excellent busters.

excellent busters.
Save the candle ends, melt, add an
equal quantity of turpentine and you will
have goo polish for floors and oilcloth'
little soap mixed with. stove black
ing will produce better and more lasting
results than without.
The wax from dripping candles can be
removed from table linen by generous
application of alcohol.
Cold rain water and soap will remove
machine grease. To remove peach stains
soak fabric in spirits of camphor before
wetting.
The smart woman saves time and pa
tience by keeping shoe horn with the
children's rubbers to make their dom
ming easy.
If non-rust hairpins are used to fasten
them down, curtains can be as nicely
dried on thick grass plot as in regular
stretchers.
If stovepipes are well rubbed with lard
and tied in several thicknesses of news
papers, they can be safely stored without
fear of rust.
Grass stains on linen should be soaked
for few minutes in kerosene then wash
ed in very hot water with generous sup
ply of soap.
When the bars of the fire CRATE have
burned red, little sugar mixed with the
black lead will cause it to adhere and last
for some time.
Alum, the size of a hickory nut, dis
solved in pint of starch will brighten
the color in muslins, ginghams and cali
Goes after washing.
To clean leather chairs rub over with
hot milk, and when clean and dry pol
ish with beeswax and turpentine melted
to the consistency of thin cream.
As starch is very apt to rot clothes they
should be washed, rough-dried without
starch and pressed out smoothly when
they are laid away for the winter.
The fastidious girl secures number of
wide pasteboard ribbon rolls from the
dry goods store and keeps her neck and
belt ribbons smoothly rolled over them.
A bunch of common clover blossoms or
a pot of musk hung up in room will
drive flies from it, as these troublesome
pests object strongly to the odor of clover
and musk.
Do not discard as worthless granite
ware in which hole appears, for it can
be made as good as new by applying bit
of putty over the hole and leaving to dry
two or three days.
Photographs can be nicely cleaned with
soft cloth moistened with lukewarm
water to which little ammonia has been |
added. Use very lightly Immediately and
wipe the picture with a soft dry cloth.
A small quantity of ordinary cider vine.
gar Tin the proportion of one tablespoon
full to quartz added to Boston baked |
beans before putting them in the oven,
will be found to give an improved flavor.
To dry clean light.colored woolens rub |
we'll into the goods mixture of equal
parts of French chalk, magnesia and pull
verized CASTLE soap. Allow it to remain
in the goods then shake and hang in the
sun.
For kitchen floor covering it is always
best to buy good quality of linoleum.
Never wash it, but polish with beeswax
and turpentine. When dirty and greasy
wipe over with parafiin and polish with
cloths
Wood alcohol rubbed on a polished
table stained or marred by hot dish
will restore the finish if followed by a
polishing with linseed oil. The odor OF
wood alcohol is not pleasant, but it is
cheaper than the medicinal alcohol.
Putting ground coffee to steep in cold
water the night before will be found to
result in economy and richness of flavor
for the breakfast beverage. Enough cof.
fee should be used to allow one table
spoonful for every cup and an extra one
for the pot.
Brass on bedsteads should be rubbed
every day with soft cloth and when
discolored a little sweet oil rubbed in
thoroughly with finishing polish by
chamois. Ordinary brass polish will des-
troy the lacquer finish put on to prevent
the brass from furnishing.
To clean velvet procure small square
of pipeclay (such as soldiers use to clean
their unforms) and scrape little OF up
on the velvet; then take brush made OF
the same material as the carpet whisk
and lightly brush it off. This raises the
pile and restores the bloom.
Fruit stains may be removed from the
hands (before soap is used) by holding
the hands, slightly moistened, over the
fumes of sulphur. Put little sulphur
on a shovel of Goals and avoid using soap
for two or three hours. Another way is
to rub the stain with ripe tomates.
Folks who like the decoration on china
ware to be in keeping with the use to
which the dish is to be put, will probab-
Nv fancy some recent additions to the
vegetable dish group in the form OF as
paragus platters and plates, each adorned
with bunch of asparagus, with a few
radishes in the centre.
Cotton may be distinguished from fine
linen when one is making purchases by
moistening the tips of the fingers and
pressing it on the fabric. If it vets
through at once it is linen, while if any
cotton enters into its manufacture it will