Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — USEFUL HINTS. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL HINTS.

If the collar or cliff be too stiff to button easily, press the finger a little ! dampened with water to the button-hole, i and you will have no further trouble. To restore color when acid has been dropped on any article of clothing, apply liquid ammonia to kill the acid; then apply chloroform to restore the I color. I Carpets should be thoroughly beaten ] on the wrong side first, and then on the right, after which spots may be removed by the use of ox-gall or ammonia and water. To keep seeds from the depredations of mice, mix some pieces of camphor with them. Camphor placed in trunks or drawers will prevent mice from doing them injury. To clean gold : Powder some whiting, and make it into a moist paste with some sal volatile. Cover over the gold ornaments and surface with a soft brush, let it dry, and then brush it off with a moderately-hard brush. To join alabaster: Ornaments of alabaster or plaster may be joined together by means of a little white of an egg, thickened with finely-powdered quicklime, or by a mixture of newly-baked and finely-uowdered plaster of Paris, mixed up with the least possible quantity of water. To repair a damaged mirror : Pour upon a sheet of tin foil about three drachms of quicksilver to the square foot of foil. Bub smartly with a piece of buckskin until the foil becomes brilliant. Lay the glass upon a flat table, face downward; place the foil upon the damaged portion of the glass; lay a sheet of paper over the foil, and place upon it a block of wood or a piece of marble with a. perfectly flat surface; put upon it sufficient weight to press it down tight; let it remain in this position a few hours. The foil will adhere to the glass. It is said that pencil drawings may be rendered ineffaceable by this simple process : Slightly warm a sheet of ordinary drawing-paper, then place it carefully on the surface of a solution of white resin in alcohol, leaving it there long enough to become thoroughly moistened. Afterward dry it in a current of air. Paper prepared in this way has a verj smooth surface. In order to fix the drawing the paper is to be warmed for a few minutes. This method may prove useful for the preservation of plans or other designs, when the want of time, or any other cause, will not allow of the draughtsman reproducing them in ink, A simpler plan than the above, however, is to brush over the back of the paper containing the charcoal or pencil sketch a weak solution of while shellac in alcohol. Myriads of people sacrifice themselves through carelessness. They are attacked with a ’ ne ßkct h an 'l die, instead of taking Dr. m- 01 - Cou T h Byru P and bring on wfully. Price ?5 cents a bottle, ’ J