How To Extract Grease Spots From Silks, Muslins, Etc

Scrape French chalk, put it on the grease spot, and hold it near the fire, or over a warm iron or water-plate, filled with boiling water. The grease will melt, and the French chalk absorb it; brush or rub it off; repeat if necessary. Camphene will remove grease also.

How To Clean Marble

Take two parts of common soda, one part of pumice-stone, and one part of finely powdered chalk; sift it through a fine sieve, and mix it with water; then rub it well all over the marble, and the stains will be removed; then wash the marble over with soap and water, and it will be as clean as it was at first.

How To Take Oil And Grease Out Of Boards, Marble, Etc

Make a paste with fullers' earth and hot water; cover the spots therewith, let it dry on, and the next day scour it off with soft or yellow soap.

Or:- Make a paste with soft soap, fullers' earth, and a little pearlash, and use it as above.

How To Clean Buckskin Gloves

First wash in warm water and soap, until the dirt is removed; then pull them out into their proper shape, or stretch them on wooden hands. Mix a little pipe-clay, or pipeclay and yellow ochre, according to the color required, with vinegar or beer. Rub this over the outside of the gloves, and let them dry gradually in the shade; or if in the house, not too near the fire. When about half dry, rub them well, and stretch them on the hand or wooden mould; after they are rubbed and dried, brush them with a soft brush to get out the dust. Finally, iron the gloves with a smoothing iron moderately heated, taking the precaution to place a cloth or piece of paper over them, and they will look like new.

How To Make An Efficacious And Durable Paste

Good and durable paste may be made with flour in the usual way, but rather thick, with a proportion of brown sugar and a small quantity of corrosive sublimate. A drop or two of the essential oil of lavender, peppermint, anise, or bergamot, is a complete security against moulding. Paste made in this manner, if kept in a close covered pot, may be preserved in a state fit for use at all times.

How To Make Blue Ink

Dissolve a small quantity of indigo in a little oil of vitriol, and add a sufficient quantity of water, in which is dissolved some gum arabic.

How To Remove Ink-Stains From Printed Books, Etc

Procure a little oxalic acid, which dissolve in a small quantity of warm water, then slightly wet the stain with it, when it will disappear, leaving the text uninjured.

To paint Silver Flowers on Silk,-

Paint flowers, leaves, etc, on white silk, with a camel's-hair pencil dipped in a solution of nitrate of silver: immerse this while wet in a jar of sulphuric acid gas, by burning sulphur in a jar of atmospheric air. The drawing will have a beautiful silvery appearance.

How To Remove Ink Or Fruit Stains From The Fingers

Cream of tartar, half an ounce; powdered salt of sorrel, half an ounce - mix. This is what is sold for salt of lemons.

How To Clean Tin Covers

Boil some rottenstone and a small quantity of prepared whiting in some sweet oil for two hours, till it acquires the consistency of cream.

How To Perfume Linen

Rose-leaves dried in the shade, or at about four feet from a stove, one pound; cloves, caraway-seeds, and allspice, of each one ounce; pound in a mortar, or grind in a mill; dried salt, a quarter of a pound; mix all these together, and put the compound into little bags.

How To Prevent Colored Tilings From Running

Boil a quarter of a pound of soap till nearly dissolved, then add a small piece of alum and boil with it. Wash the things in this lather, but do not soap them. If they require a second water, put alum to that also as well as to the rinsing and blue water. This will preserve them.

How To Preserve Pencil Marks

If you have anything drawn or written with a lead pencil that you wish to preserve from rubbing out, dip the paper into a dish of skimmed milk. Then dry it, and iron it quickly on the wrong side.

How To Dry Plants For Preservation

The following improved method of drying plants is the result of much experience: - The plants you wish to preserve should be gathered when the weather is dry, and after placing the ends in water, let them remain in a cool place till the next day. When about to be submitted to the process of drying, place each plant between several sheets of blotting-paper, and iron it with a large smooth heater pretty strongly warmed, till all the moisture is dissipated. Colors may thus be fixed, which otherwise become pale, or nearly white.

How To Wash White Silk Lace Or Blonde

Take a black bottle covered with clean linen or muslin, and wind the blonde round it, (securing the ends with a needle or thread,) not leaving the edge outward, but covering it as you proceed. Set the bottle upright in a strong cold lather of white soap and soft water, and place it in the sun, having gently rubbed the suds up and down on the lace. Keep it in the sun every day for a week, changing the lather daily, and always rubbing it slightly when you renew the suds. At the end of the week, take the blonde off the bottle, and (without rinsing) pin it backward and forward on a large pillow. The pins should be of the smallest size. When quite dry, take it off, but do not starch, iron, or press it. Lay it in long loose folds, and put it away in a pasteboard box. Thread lace may be washed in the same manner.

How To Clean Silver

Dissolve two tea-spoonfuls of powdered alum in a quart of moderately strong lye, stir in a gill of soft soap, and remove the scum or dross that may rise to the surface. After washing the silver in hot water, take a sponge and cover every article with this mixture. Let the things rest about a quarter of an hour, frequently turning them. Next wash them off in warm soap-suds, and wipe them dry with a soft cloth. Afterwards brighten them with rouge powder, or with whiting and spirits of wine.