The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-02-26
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Household Hints.

~ from overalls by letting them
soak for a day in turpentine.
Tea stains should De rubbed with
glycerine before the fabric is washed.
Should fresh paint be spilled on
the floor, pour some vinegar on it
at once and wipe up with a soft cloth.
Wine stains which have dried on
the table cloth or napkins should be
touched with a few drops of whisky
before the linen is sent to the laun-
dry
Precipitated chalk is excellent for
cleaning tarnished silver. Place a
little in saucer and add just enough
liquid ammonia to moisten it. Rub
this lightly over the silver, and the
stains will quickly disappear. Then
wash in hot suds, dry carefully, and
polish with clean chamois leather.
Wet fruit stains on wooden with
tepid water, then rub on dry starch
and hang out in the sun. Washing
in kerosene before washing with soap
and water is another way of taking
out fruit stains.
When it is necessary to iron
rough-dry garment at once, try this
method: Damp it, roll tight, wrap
in cloth, and then in paper, and
put it into the oven while the irons
are heating. Evaporation will cause
it to be thoroughly dampened in a
very few minutes but care must be
taken that the oven is not hot enough
to scorch the things.
Mix a small quantity of soft soap
with the same proportion of pow
dered starch and salt, and the juice
of lemon to remove mildew stain.
Apply this mixture to both sides of
the stain with a small brush, and,
If possible, let the article lie on the
grass all day and night until the
stains have quite disappeared Then
wash in the usual way.
Add two tablespoonfuls of soda to
four quarts of water to clean enamel
ware. Immerse the discolored uten-
sils in the water and boil for half an
hour; then scour them, using some
of the soda water and stiff brush.
If the stains are persistent boil sec
ond time and use sand with the soda
water for the second securing.
To remove a cinder or other foreign
substance, lay over. the eye cloth
on which has been spread the beaten
white of an egg, with little sugar
and pulverized alum added.
Cold rain water and a good SOAP
will usually remove machine grease
stains
Silver or gold jewelry may be sat
isfactorily cleaned by adding a tea
spoonful of ammonia to cup oil
water and applying with rag.
Paint stains that are dry and old
may be removed from cotton or
wooden goods with chloroform. 1t is
good plan to first cover the spots
with olive oil or butter.
Olive oil is excellent for the health.
A tablespoonful of it three times a
day is recommended by many physi-
clans as means of warding off APP
pendicitis.
To "set" the color in light shades
Of pink and blue soak the goods in
salt water with small lump of
alum added. Use the alum alone for
the different shades of lilac and vio-
let. After the color has been 'set !"
wash the garments in warm borax
suds, which will help to keep the
color in the goods.
In washing chintz, wheat bran will
be found more satisfactory than soap.
Tie a quart OF bran In a piece of
cheesecloth and use this for rubbing
on the material as one would soap.
Do not use too hot water and rinse
and blue as one would if washed In
the usual way.
Add a little vinegar to some warm
water when cleaning leather furni-
ture, using a clean cloth or sponge
Wipe with dry cloth. Then, to re-
store the polish, put two teaspoon
fuls of turpentine with the whites OF
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