Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1881 — USEFUL HINTS. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL HINTS.

To remove grease from wall paper, lay several folds of blotting paper on the Bpot and hold a hot iron near it until the grease is absorbe.l. To geild leather dust over the surface finely powdered resin, then lay on the leaf and apply, hot, the letters or impressions you wish to transfer ; lastly, dust off the loose metal with a cloth or brush. A simple remedy for removing freckled is a pint of sour milk and a small quantity of horse-radish. Let the mixture stand over night, and use it as a wash tliree times a day until the freckles disappear. Beeswax and salt will make flatirons as Clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it hot for that purpose. When the irons are hot, rub them with the wax rag, then scour with a paper or rag sprinkled with salt. Boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains ; pour the water through the stain, and thus prevent it from spreading over the fabric, while soaking in milk before washing will always remove ink-stains from any fabric.

All sorts of vessels and utensils may be purified from long-retained smells of every kind, in the easiest and most perfect manner, by rinsing them out well with charcoal powder, after the grosser impurities have been scoured off with sand potash. To make rosewater : Dissolve ottar of roses, six drahms avoirdupois, in strongest rectified spirit (hot), one imperial pint. Throw the solution into a twelvegallon carboy, and add ten gallons pure distilled water at 180 deg. Fahrenheit. At once cork the carboy (at first loosely) and agitate the whole briskly (at first cautiously) until quite cold. Table-Cloths. —Table-cloths of black cashmere, with a broad border of pale blue velvet, edged with broad gold braid at each edge, are very ornamental. Dregs of wine, with black or cream-col-ored border, worked with black and California-gold silk is also handsome. One can vary the colors to suit the fancy, only do not use too gaudy colors as the effect will be injured. Fish Scale Jewelry. The best scales for this work are taken from sheephead and the red fish. Wash well in cold water to which has been added a little ammonia. Cut a pattern of a leaf, put it on the scale and cut it out. After you have enough scales cut this way, pierce two hoies in each leaf, one in the center, the other where the stem should be. Put a bit of fine silver wire through the holes, and twist the ends together for about half an inch, then place another leaf on one end of the same wire, and twist the wire as before, then put another on the opposite wire. You can form fan leaves the same way. The flowers are formed in almost the same way, except you place a small pearl bead in the center of each. Tendrils can be made by coiling the wire around a number six needle. Those intended for a pin should be bound to a small safety pin or a cuff pin, and the earrings are fastened to gold wire which is bent into the proper form.