Removing Oil Stains From Tiles

You can remove oil stains from tiles completely by mixing fuller's earth into a thick paste with water, and spreading it over the tiles, letting it remain twenty-four hours, and then wiping it off. If the mark, then, has not quite gone, put on another paste.

How To Polish Floors

Put some spermaceti into a saucepan on the fire, and mix it with enough turpentine to make it quite fluid; then with a piece of flannel put it very thinly on the floor. It must then be rubbed with a dry flannel and brushed in the same way that oak stairs are polished. This part of the process, rubbing and brushing takes a long time to do thoroughly.

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Dissolve half a pound of potash in three pints of water, in a saucepan on the fire; when the water boils throw in one pound of beeswax cut up in small pieces; stir it well until the wax is quite melted. When the polish is cold, if it be too thick, add more water, then with a brush paint the boards evenly with it; and when it has dried rub them with a flannel tied at the end of a broom.

Black Wax

Add one ounce of beeswax to half an ounce of Burgundy pitch; melt them together, and add one ounce and a half of ivory-black, ground very fine, and dried.

Green Wax

Melt one ounce of beeswax, and add half an ounce of verditer; let the pipkin be large enough, as the wax will immediately boil up. Stir it well, and add the eighth part of an ounce of resin, when it will be sufficiently hard and fit for use.

How To Polish Tortoise Shell Or Horn

Having scraped your work perfectly smooth and level, rub it with very fine sandpaper or Dutch rushes; repeat the rubbing with a bit of felt dipped in a very finely powdered charcoal with water, and lastly, with rotten-stone or putty-powder; and finish with a piece of soft wash-leather, damped with a little sweet oil.

How To Clean Looking Glasses

Sponge down the glass with gum and water, equal parts, then dust down with whitening, and finish with a soft old silk handkerchief.