Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — Hints for Housekeepers. [ARTICLE]

Hints for Housekeepers.

Troy Times. The expressed juice of green walnut shells diluted with water is used for 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 -frith dry whiting,: I. ‘ 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 ammonia diluted with water if applied with a sponge or flannel to discolored spots on the; carpet or garments, will often restore the color. When carpets are well cleaned sprinkle with salt and fold; when laid strew with slightlv moistened bran before sweeping. This, with the salt,' will freshen them up wonderfully. Skim milk and water, With a little bit of glue in it, made scalding hot, will restore old rusty black crape. If clapped and pressed dry, like fine muslin, it will look as good‘as new. > A paste made of whiting and benzoin will clean marble, and one made of whiting and chloride of soda, spread and left to dry (in? the sun if possible) ■ on the’marble will remove spots. Celery boiled in milk and eaten with the milk served as a beverage -is said to b? a cure for rheumatism, gout ami 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 ptiinl will instantly remove all dirt and grease. Wash with clean water and dry. The most delicate paint will not be injured, aud will. look like new. : Plaster of paris mixed with gum arabic water makes an excellent White cement, but mustbeused immediately, as it hardens quickly. A mixture of five’parts of gelatine to one of acid chromate of • lime. Applied to broken edges, which should Jse pressed together and exposed to the sunlight, makes an insoluble cement. To whiten walls, scrape off all the old whitewash, and wash the walls with.a solution of twq ounces of white vitriol to four gallons of water, Soak a quarter of a pound of white glue in water for twelve hours; strain and place in a tin pail; cover with fresh water, and set the p?iil in a kettle of boiling water. When melted stir in the glue eight pounds of-whiting. And water enough to make it as thick as common whitewash, evenly with a good brush. If ttie walls are very yellow, blue the water slightly by squeezing, in it a flannel blue-bag. The Pikqcounty (Ga.) News .says: .“Mrs. Howell, livipg ndar Gogginsville. has made a hat of cotton seed, which has been sent to the exhibition, and will doubtless fill the missing link in Senator Joe’s cotton; suit. The seed are putron a string, then ground a shape, which had been prepared for the occasion, until the required size is obtained. The band is made of green cotton leaves with a cluster of cotton blooms for a how. The top is decprated with a large,open ball of cotton. We understand that it is'very pretty.”