Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1916 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

A good furniture polish is eight ounces of sweet oil, four ounces turpentine, two ounces ammonia. Apply with cloth and polish with woolen cloth. After washing a white knitted jer** gey, put it on a coat-hanger to dry, and hang it on a line in the air. It will keep a better shape than if pegged on the line. Ground rice is excellent for cleaning white cloth. It should be applied with a piece of clean white flannel, left for two or three hours, and tlien well brushed and shaken. Rusty irons should be heated, rubbed on a piece of beeswax tied iq linen, and then with a coarse flannel cloth, sprinkled with household salt. This will give a polish like glass. Silk stockings should never be Ironed. Wash them in soapsuds made with good white soap and lukewarm water and„rinse in clear water of the same temperature. Rough dry. * Do not iron lingerie ribbons while damp if you want them to be soft. Wrap while wet smoothly around a big bottle covered with thick muslin, and press with a cool iron when dry. If the knob has come off the kettie take a cork, put a‘screw through it, push the Bcrew through the lid, of the kettle and screw a burr on the end. You will have a knob that will not come off nor get hot.