Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Best quality of lard melts "at 81 degrees. Cream of tartar nibbed upon soiled white kid gloves cleans them well. To preserve flowers in water: Mix a. little saltpetre or carbonate of soda with water, and it will preserve them for two weeks. Liquid glue: Glue, water, vinegar, each three parte; dissolve in a water bath; then add alcohol, one part. An excellent cement To extract grease from papered walls: Dip a piece of flannel in spinte of wine, rub the greasy spots once or twice, and the grease wifi disappear. Recipe for making the hands white: Take some dry Indian meal, wet your hands and rub them with it; then wash them with soap and tepid water. Fly poison: Boil one-quarter ounce small chips of quassia in one pint of water; add four ounces molasses. Flies drink this with avidity, and are soon destroyed. To make paper fire-proof take a solution of alum and dip the paper into it; then throw it over a line to ary. Try a slip of paper in the flame of a candle, and if not sufficiently prepared dip and try it a second time. A Russian apothecary recommends the following as a sure remedy for corns, stating that it proves effective within a short time, and without causing any pain: Salicylic acid, 30 parte; extract of cannabis indica, 5 parts; collodion, 240 parte. To be applied by means of a camel’s hair pencil. To prevent iron from rusting: Warm the iron 'until you cannot bear your hand on it without burning yourself. Then rub it with new and clean white wax. Put it in again to the fire till it has soaked in the wax. When done rub it over with a piece of serge. This prevents the iron from rusting afterward. Economical soap: The addition of three-quarters of an ounce of borax to a pound of soap, melted in without boiling, makes a saving of one-half in the cost of soap, and three-fourths the labor of washing, and improves the whiteness of the fabrics; besides, the usual caustic effect is removed, and the hands are left with a peculiar soft and silky feeling, leaving nothing more to be desired by the most ambitious and economical washerwoman.