Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS. [ARTICLE]

VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.

A table-spoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will greatly aid in the whitening process. Boiling starch is much improved by the addition of sperm, or salt, or both, or a little gum arabic dissolved. The easiest method of removing rust from iron is rubbing it with a rag dipped in oil of tartar. The rust will disappear immediately. A couple of ounces of carbolic acid to three quarts of water, sprinkled over the poultry-house through the fine nose of a watering-pot, once in three or four weeks, will, it Is slid, destroy lice and other parasites. Beeswax and salt will make your rusty flat-irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag, and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot, rub them first with the wax- rag, then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. To fix pencil marks so that they will not rub out, take well-skimmed milk and dilute with an equal bulk of water. Wash the pencil marks (whether writing or drawing) with the liquid, using a soft flat eamel’s-hair brush, and avoid all rubbing. Place it upon a flat board to <hy. Renovating Oil Cloth.—Oil cloth washed in hot water or in soapsuds, or with a brush, will look dingy when dry, and soon ers ck and peel off; but when always washed in luke-warm water with a piece of soft old flannel, and wiped perfectly dry each time, will last longer and retain its young looks down to old age ; it greatly improves its appearance to use half milk and half water. Skim milk, if not sour, is just as good as new milk. This makes oil cloth look as if varnished. Neither soap, hot water or brush should ever be used on it.

To Clean Matting.—ln cleaning matting wash twice during the summer with salt and water—a pint of salt to half a pailful of warm, soft water ; dry quickly with a clean soft cloth. Treated in this way the matting will not grow yellow. Or, if preferred, apply a thin coat of varnish to the matting. That will make it more durable-and greatly improve its appearance. If varnished, it will not need washing. Now and then wipe with a wet cloth and dry quickly. Use white varnish on white matting. Be sure and have the varnish thin or the matting will crack. How to Wash the Face. —Many people object to the use of soap, disliking the shiny, polished appearance it gives, but any who use Dr. Wilson’s directions will find that objection removed. They are as follows : '“Fill your basin about twothirds full of fresh water ; dip your face in the water and then your hands. Soap the hands well and pass the soaped hands with gentle friction over,the whole face. Having performed this part of the operation the face in the water a second time and rinse it completely. You may add very much to the luxury of the latter part of the operation by having a second basin ready with fresh water to perform a tina rinse. ”