Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1882 — Hints for Housekeepers. [ARTICLE]

Hints for Housekeepers.

The expressed julee of green wal nut shells diluted with water Is used tor dying blonde hair a light brown. A little spirits of turpentine added to the water with which floors are washed will prevent the ravages of moths. Use kerosene, or bath-brick, or powdered lime to scour iron, tin or copper: wash in hot suds and polish with dry whiting. To remove spots from furniture, four ounces of vinegar, two ounces of sweet oil, one ounce of turpentine. Mix and apply with a flannel cloth. Spirits of ammeoia diluted with water, If aoplled with a sponge or flannel to discolored spots on theoaipet or garments, will often restore the color. Skim-milk and water, with a little bit of glue in it, made scalding hot,| will restore old rusty bteck crupe.-r-i If clappeJ and pressed dry, like line muslin, it will look as goo4aa new. When carpets are well cleaned sprinkle with salt and fold; when laid strew with slightly moistened bran before sweeping. This, with the salt, will freshen them up wonderfully. A paste made of whiting and ben zoin will clean marble, and one made of whiting and chloride of soda,spread and left to dry (in the sun if possible) on the maible will remove spots. Celery boiled in milk and eaten with the milk served as a beverage is said to be a cure for rheumatism, gout and a specific in cases of small pox. Nervous people find comfort in celery. A flannel cloth dipped Into warm soap suds and then into whiting and applied to paint will instantly remove all grease and dirt. Wash with clean water and dry. The mo.L delicate paint will not be injured, and will look like new.

Plaster of paris mixed with gum arable water makes an excellent white cement, but must be used immediately, as it hardens quickly. A mixture of five parts of gelatine to one of acid chromate nf lime, applied to broken edges, which should be pressed together and exposed to the sunlight, makes an insoluble cement. To wniten walls, scrape off all the old whitewash, and wash the walls with a solution of two ounces of white vitriol to four gallons of water. Soak a quarter of a pound of white glue in watsr for twelve hours; strain and place in a tin pall: coyer with fresh water, and set the pail in a kettle of boiling water. When melted stir in the glue eignt pounds of whiting, and water enough to make it aa&thick as common whitewash. Apply evenly with a good brush. If the walls are very yellow, blue the water slightly by squeezing in it a flannel blue-bag.