This receipt is given in an American publication.

Get some of the best whiting; powder it and then sift it, so that it may be as fine as possible. Put it in a plate for use. Get some clean warm water in a basin, and a piece of soft flannel, and a new soft chamois leather.

Dip the flannel in the water and squeeze it nearly dry: then rub it down in the whiting, and take up as much as will adhere to it. Rub the paint gently with it and it will clean it perfectly. Next lightly wash the part done with clean water, and dry with the chamois leather. The paint will look as well as if it were just done, and the most delicate colours will be uninjured. It is a better mode than the old one of soap and water, and ii is also quicker about.

Window-cleaning should be done by men, if the windows are high up. No woman should be allowed to run the risk of breaking her neck from a height, nor to stand where she is indelicately exposed to observation, but she ought to clean the inside of the windows with the footman or hired cleaner.

Plate-glass is best cleaned with, wet whiting, which is afterwards washed off, and the glass is rubbed with a chamois leather.

If paint-splashes have been left on the panes of glass by the painter, it can be removed by washing the glass with soda and water, which will quite clear it from them.