HOW TO WASH LACE CURTAINS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 79, 30 September 1893, Page 6 (Supplement)

HOW TO WASH LACE CURTAINS.

It Is Simple Enough When Once You Know How. Shake the dust out when taking down, then spread across two lines and brush witb a clean feather brush. Put the curtains, one at a time, in a tub half full of milk warm water, with two tablespoonf uls of ammonia added. Let them remain about fifteen minutes, squeezing them with the hands every two or three minutes to loosen the dirt. Continue this process until all have been through three waters, or until the last water looks olean. The ammonia need not be used for but two waters. Then put the curtains in a coarse white bag or pillow case and put in weak, tepid soapsuds made of pure soap, letting it come to a boil. Rinse and blue, then starch if desired. Pin over sheets on the floor of an unoccupied room, stretching to the original measure, which should have been taken, and fastening to tbe oarpet. All the work should be swiftly done to prevent as much shrinkage as possible. How to Drive Screws in Soft Wood. Screws can be used in soft wood if powdered rosin be put around the holes made for them and the screws be heated before using. Another v-jd^is to fill the hole with thick glue 'MMT Atving the screw when cold. mmmmm How to Clean . . ;tkt' r. Wall paper can be made to look fresh and new by rubbing it down with a soft flannel or canton flannel cloth or bag tied over the broom. If very dirty, begin at the top and rub down with chunks of white bread cut ready for use. Rub always one way and discard a piece as soon as it is dirty. How to Tell the Sices of Books. A little measurement from the following table will familiarize one with the most common sizes of volumes: Folio, below 18 inches; quarto, below 11 inches; octavo, below 9 inches; duodecimo, below 8 inches; minimo, below 6 inches. How to Make Cheap Carpeting. Tack layers of the cheapest cotton cloth smoothly down ; then over this paper the floor as you would the walls. When dry add several coats of varnish. This makes a floor covering that will keep good for at least two years; can be washed and keeps its gloss. It is especially good on rooms that are not in constant use. How to Remove the taste from New Wooden Fails and Vessels. Scald the vessel with boiling water, letting it remain till cool. Dissolve pearlash or soda in lukewarm water, add a little lime and wash the inside of the vessel with it. Lastly, scald well and rinse with cold water. How to Treat Motha in Carpets. If ingrain, lay cloths wrung out of hot water along the edges, drying them with a hot iron. If the carpet is heavier than ingrain, lift the edges little by little, steaming it on the wrong as well as the right side, then wash the floor with hot cayenne tea, and replace the carpet when dry. This steaming process destroys the eggs and the young moths. How to Wash White Silk Handkerchiefs. Put them through a suds of warm water and wliite castile soap, rinsing thoroughly. They can be bleached on the grass the same as linen. How to Prepare a Good Shampoo. A mixture of white castile soap, bay rum, lukewarm water and salts of tartar will be effective. The salts remove dandruff, and the bay rum will prevent taking cold. How to Clean Black Ribbon. If very dirty dip it in hot water and draw it through the fingers a few times, not rubbing it. Have ready a cleanser made by boiling an old black kid glove in a pint of water a short time and letting it cool sufficiently to handle. Use the glove to rub the ribbon thoroughly. Then lay it uuder a paper and iron it. How to Make Polishing Wax for Floors. Melt over a slow fire a pound of yellow wax, and stir in a quarter of a pound of oil of turpentine and the same or rosin. Keep over the fire and stir constantly until all are fused, then set off the fire, still stirring the mixture until it is cool. Apply it to the fltfo* with a woolen rag, rubbing it in hard. ■ How to Wash Hairbrushes. Ia efto^Sh hot water to <Hp|^>r^Bh dissolve a" piece of soda the* si2»^- i; a walnut. Mp the brush in out getting the water on the naqa#.j When clean, put the brush in the«m .or* a warm place to dry, first rubbing the backs with a cloth. Soap and rubbing tend to make the bristles soft How to Take Ont Ink Stains. Dip the spotted part immediately in pure, melted tallow; then wash out the tallow and the ink will have disappeared. How to Clean Books. Dust them with a soft cloth, rubbing; It firmly over the surface of the cover.' If there is a great deal of dust the last traces can be removed by the use of bread or a soft rubber eraser,. From the tops of leaves dust can be blovfti. or* brushed with a soft whisk. How to Stop Cracks Jn Jars. Mix equal quantities of white lead And white sand with enough oil to make it the consistency of putty. Apply over the cracked places and let it harden. It will be-tome like stone in a few weeks.' How to Clean Precious Stones. Wash them in soap and water, to which has been added a little ammonia* potash or pearlash. Dry in tine boxwood sawdust. ! How to Remove Grape Stains from Oar*, pets. Wash them out with warm soapsuds ! M md a little ammonia.