Furniture Varnish

1½ ounces linseed oil, raw; 1 ounce alcohol, ½ ounce Venice turpentine, 4 drops benzine, 4 drops spirits turpentine.

Mirrors and picture glasses should be polished with a bit of chamois-skin squeezed out of clear water, and then polished with a dry piece of the same.

How To Clean A Library

To Clean A Library provided with enclosed stationary cases, the books should be taken out after the first washing of the floor, carefully freed from dust by striking two volumes together in the hand - never dust books in any other way - and return to the cases. If the cases are open, dust the books and remove to another apartment before the carpet is disturbed.

How To Wash Oil Cloth

Take milk and water. Never use soapsuds, as this dulls the colors. Rub over with a mixture of ½ beeswax, melted, and while warm stirred into a saucer of turpentine. Apply with a flannel cloth and polish with a dry flannel. Or wash as above and oil with sweet oil or butter. Polish.

How To Clean Zinc

Rub carefully with kerosene and polish with newspapers. This combination of printers' ink and kerosene effectually removes all stains.

Nickle Trimmings

Nickle Trimmings on stoves may be cleaned with kerosene and whiting. Polish with dry flannel. Common soda will polish nickle-plating also.

Spots on Tarnished Furniture may be removed by rubbing with essence of peppermint or spirits of camphor and afterward using furniture polish or linseed oil. Sometimes holding a hot fire-shovel over them will remove them. Polish afterward.

Mica in stoves may be cleaned by washing in hot vinegar. If it does not clean readily let remain wet some time.

How To Wash Matting

To Wash Matting wipe off with a cloth wrung from salt and water. This prevents turning yellow.

How To Remove Grease From Marble

Apply a paste made of crude potash and whiting mixed with water, or mix quicklime to the consistency of cream with strong lye. Apply with a brush. For eitner method let remain twenty-four hours and wash off with soap and water. Polish the surface and the marble appears like new. A paste of whiting with benzine will work wonders.

How To Remove Iron Stains From Marble

Take an equal quantity of fresh spirits of vitriol and lemon juice. Mix in a bottle, shake well, wet the spots and in a few minutes rub with a soft linen cloth until they disappear.

How To Sweep Carpets

To Sweep Carpets use salt, dampened sawdust, bran or old tea leaves.

In The Kitchen

Attend to the closets first. A coat of copperas white-wash will be useful, or plain white-wash. Put the boiler over, fill with strong soap-suds, adding a good handful of sal-soda. Into this put all the tins and let boil half an hour. Take the lamp burners and boil in the same fashion, using some old pan for this purpose. When removed, rinse well and wipe dry.

Ammonia will be found a necessity in the kitchen work. Its uses are manifold. Some of them have been mentioned before. It is cheap and the crude article can be bought for household purposes. Put it in dish-water, and the pans and kettles where meat has been cooked, and grease will disappear like magic.