Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — AROUND THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE HOUSE.

If dish towels and cloths are boiled up in water with ammonia every second day there will be less trouble with sticky dishes. To prevent starch from sticking a good plan istoput a teaspoonful of clean white lard into a pint of thick starch while hot and stir it thoroughly through the mixture. Powdered French chalk is recommended for cleaning light summer woolens. It is very inexpensive and may therefore be used liberally. Cover the soiled parts thickly with the chalk, let it remain a day or two, and then remove with a camel’s hair velvet brush. It is claimed that in most coses this treatment will oause the spots to disappear entirely.