The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-06-28
NINE MONEY MAKERS
Some Valuable Formulas for the Household
That Are Worth Preserving.

Whitewash that Will Not Rub on
Mix up half a pailful of lime and
water, really to put on the wall, then
take one quarter pint flour, mix it up
with water, then pour on it boiling
water, q sufficient quantity to thickea
it, then pour it while hot into tho
whitswash, stir it all together, and it
is ready for use.
A Cement Withslanding Heat
and Moisture-Pure white lead, or
zinc white ground in oil and used very
thick, is an excellent cement for mend.
ing broken crockery ware, but it takes
very long time to harden. 1t is we'll
to put the mended object in some store
room and not to look after it for sever
al weeks, or even months. 1t will then
be found to be SO firmly united that, if
again broken, it will not part on the
line of the former fracture.
A Simple Insscticids -Hot alum wa.
ter is the best insect destroyer known.
Put the alum in hot water and let
it boil till it is all dissolved, then apply
the solution hot with a brush to all
cracks, closets, bedstsads, and other
places where any insects are found.
Ants, bedbugs, cOckroaches and creep.
ing things are killed by it, while it has
no danger of poisoning the family or
injuring the property.
Moth Preventive-A very pleasant
perfume, aud also preventive against
moths, may be made of the fOllwing in.
gradients. Take of cloves, caraway
seeds, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon and
rOnquin beans, of each one ounce, then
add as much Florentine orris root as
will equal the other Ingredients put to.
gether. Grind the whole we'll to pow.
err, and then put it in littlet bags
among your clothes.
Black Ink-To make Jet black ink,
that is shiny and glistening when ap.
piled, dissolve in one half pint of soft
water, three-eights ounce of potassium
bi-chrOmate, and add sixty ounces log
wood extract dissolved in one gallon of
water, then dissolve in one gallon of
WATER by continued boiling, borax six
ounces, shellac one and one half ounces.
Mix all thgether while warm and add
ammonia three ounces.
Cement to Mend China-Take Q
very thick solution of gum arabic and
stir into it plaster of paris, until the
mixture is of proper consistency. Ap.
ply it with brush to the fractional
edges of the chineware, and stick them
together. In few days it will be i'm.
possible to break the article in the
same place.
Best Backing for Boots and Shoe
Ivory black one and half ounces, mo.
asses one and half ounces, sperm oil
three drains, strong oil OF vitriol three
drains, common vinegar half a pint.
Mix the ivory black, molasses and vim.
egar together, then mix the sperm oil
and oil of vitriol separately and add
them to the other mixture.
To Mend Creckery-Four pounds OF
white glue, one and half pounds OF
dry white lead, one-half pound isin.
glass, one gallon soft water, one quart
alcohol, one-half pint white varnish,
dissolve the glue and isinglass in the
water by gentle heat if preferred, stir
in the lead, put the alcohol in the var.
nish. and mix the whole together.
Fire and Waterproof Glue-Mix q
handful OF quick-lime with four ounce
linseed oil, thoroughly lixiviate the
mixture, boil it to a good thickness.
and spread it on thin plates in tho
shade, it will become very hard, but
can be dissolved over fire, like com.
mon glue, aid is then fit for use.