Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-03
SEVERAL HELPFUL
HINTS ON CLEANING
BY LAURA B. BREESE,
Department of Farmers Institutes OF
the University of Wisconsin.

Department of Farmers Institutes Of
the University of Wisconsin.
To Clean SiIver.-Make a paste OF
alcohol and whiting and apply this on
silverware with soft cloth. Let it dry
on, then wash in soapsuds, rinse in hot
water then dry with a clean cloth or
chamOiS skin.
Another way is to put silver in sour
milk, putting milk in a tin or aluminium
vessel. Let it stand for a few hours,
take out, rinse and rub dry. The sill
yer will be we'll polished and there
will be no powder in the engraved
parts.
To Clean NickeI.-Make a paste of
cold wood ashes and water. Apply this
with a cloth and when dry polish with
dry soft cloth. Whiting and am
monia is also good.
To Clean Brass.-POlish with mix
ture of rottenstOne and crude Oil. IL
spotted use oxalic acid with the rot
tenstone. After rubbing we'll metal
should be washed off in hot soapsuds
and finished with dry cloth.
To Clean Copper.-Clean with tur-
pentine Vinegar and salt brighten
copper for a while, but the copper
grows blacker than before very soon.
To Clean Aluminum.-Thep polishing
cream used for cleaning the brass
trimmings on automobiles is excellent
for cleaning aluminium ware. 1t gives
the original satiny finish to the alum
mum Rubbing it with kerosene and
then washing it off we'll will also
brighten it.
To Clean Woodwork.-Painted sur
faces should be wiped off with Soft
cloth wrung out of tepid water. A lit
tie neutral white soap solution may be
used in the water for paint if greasy.
Alkali soaps are ruinous.
A highly-polished surface (as the
piano. should be busted with soft silk
cloth. To clean such a surface wash
it with a sponge wrung out OF tep1d
water and dry with wet chamois
wrung hard out of cold water. dry
channels will streak the surface.
To Clean Furniture.-Rub with a
clean soft dry cloth. Occasionally
clean with crude oil or a mixture OF
oil and turpentine and little vinegar.
Furniture polishes can be purchased to
apply.
To Renovate Rusted Registers.-To
renoyate rusted or rough registers use
asphaltum A pint can mixed with one
half cupful of turpentine and painted
over the registers, CRATE and its lit
tings will make them like new.
To Care for Sinks.-The kitchen
sink and it's pipes are hard enough to
care for where soft water is to be had
II is much harder when hard water mas
to be used. Flush the pipes well two
or three times daily with hot water fol-
lowed by cold water. Grease hardens
on sides of pipes, Of course, as 1t
reaches the pipes and hot solutions OF
sal soda water, one tablespoonful IN
two quarts of boiling water, should be
poured down the pipes. Sometimes
the sal soda will form soap with the
grease in the pipe and will clog the
nine To avoid this pour little kero-
sene, about one-half cupful, down the
pipes once or twice week. The hot
solutions of sal soda should be poured
down once a week at least. A few
minutes after using the kerosene pour
hot water down the pipe, then cold
water to leave the traps filled with
fresh clean water. Use a little kero-
sene on a cloth to clean enamel sink
or scour discolored spots with some
soft fine kitchen cleaning powder. Do
not use anything acid for it eats the
glaze off of the enamel.