How To Clean Paint

Put half a peck of bran into a washboiler, and fill it with cold water, set it over the fire, and boil it for half an hour; then strain through a sieve a bucket one-third full; put as much cold water to it as you have of the bran-water, and use with it a soft scrubbing-brush; or if the paint is not very much soiled, a soft flannel cloth, but no soap. It will make the paint look like new. Keep the remainder on the stove boiling hot to renew with.

How To Clean Tins

Dissolve a couple of pounds of washing soda in a boiler full of water, keep it hot over the fire, put a few tins in it at a time, and let them lie for a few minutes; then rub with scouring sand. They will look almost like silver.

How To Clean The Inside Of Coffee-Boilers Or Teapots

Put them on the range with a piece of soda in each as large as a nutmeg, and fill them with water, let them stand for several hours, then wash with soap and water, rinse well, and dry. After a coffee or tea pot has been long in use, even if they are kept as clean as the generality of servants keep them, they will be the better for this process.

How To Clean Black Alpaca

Spread the alpaca on a table, and wipe off briskly the soiled side with a soft cloth dipped in equal parts of vinegar and water, press with a hot iron on the same side, and take the other for the outside when made up.

How To Take Grease-Spots Out Of Colored Silk

Put a soft cloth under the grease-spot, holding it in your hand. With the other rub the spot with a clean piece of soft cloth dipped in chloroform; the grease will all go into the cloth you hold under it, and leave no mark on the most delicate color. If the spot is obstinate, drop the chloroform on it and rub with a soft cloth. A weak solution of ammonia will take stains and spots from black material, rubbed on in the same manner.

How To Take Out Tar

If a wash material, rub well into the tar fresh lard, and let it lie for several hours; then wash out with soap.

How To Take Out Sewing-Machine Oil

Wash with cold water and soap. Wetting it with hot water leaves an indelible stain.

How To Take Fruit Stains Out Of Table Linen

Pour boiling water over the stains before they are wet or touched with soap.

How To Remove Rust From Steel

Rub with sweet oil, sprinkle with fresh-slacked lime whilst it is warm, let it lie for two days, then polish off with dry powdered and unslacked lime.

How To Take Out Mildew

Rub the spots well with soap, scrape some chalk, and rub thickly into the soap, wet it a little, and lay the article on the grass; repeat this. The second time will bring it all out