Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1888 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Remove stains from cups and saucerp by scouring with fine coal ashes. ' Tin cleaned with paper will shine better than when cleaned with flannel. Clothespins boiled a few minutes and quickly dried once or twice a month become moredurable. .Tea or coffeestains will come out at once if, they are takep immediately and held over a pail while coiling water .is poured upon them. W hen potter’s ware is boiled for the purpose of hardening it a handful or two of bran should be thrown into the water, and the glazing will never be injured by acids or salt. Dry buckwheat flour, if repeatedly applied, will entirely remove the worst grease spots on carpets or any other woolen doth, and will answer as well as French chalk for grease spots on silk. Oilcloths, should never be washed in hot soapsuds; they should first be Washed clean with cold Water, then rubbed dry with a cloth wet in milk. The same treatment applies to stone or ’ slate hearth.. :— t—— if '