Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — THINGS WORTH KNOWING. [ARTICLE]

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

A simple toothache preventive ia the using of the flour of sulphur as a tooth wash, Rub the teeth and gums with a rather stiff brush, using the sulpher after each meal, or aftei supper only. It preserves and cleanses the teeth, correcting all bad odors from the mouth. By adding a little pearlash to a soap lather, faded ribbons placed therein will-be restored to their natural color. Faded breadths of silk can be restored if treated to a bath of the above named ingredients. To clean kid or leather gloves, wash them with soap and water, then stretch them on wooden hands, or pull them into shape without stretching them; next rub them with pipe clay or yellow ochre, or a mixture of the two of any required shade made into paste with beer. Let them dry gradually and, when about half dry, rub them well so as to smooth them and putr them into shape. Then dry brush out the superfluous color'., cover with paper and smooth with a warm iron. Other color than the ochre can be mixed with the pipe clay.^ The Paris method of cleaning kid gloves is as follows: Put the gloves on your hands and wash them as though you were washing your hands in some spirits of turpentine until quite dean; then hang them up in a warm place, or where there is a current of air, and all smell of turpentine wiH be removed. | ' A splendid jet polish for harness, boots, satchels and all leathern articles is made as follows; Dissolve three sticks of the best blach sealing wax in one half pint of spirits ol wine. Put in a glass bottle, shake well previous t« using, and applv with a soft sponge. To make black sealing wax, pur ebase three pounds of the best black resin and one pound of finely povr dered ivory black. Melt the whole together over a slow fire and porn into sneks, To render fit for lettei use add, while soft, a quarter of ii pound of Venice turpentine.