HOW TO CLEAN LENSES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3615, 3 May 1906, Page 3

HOW TO CLEAN LENSES.

Photographers and Telescope Owners Can ■ Do It Themselves Without Danger. Mere dust can bo removed ■with a camel’s .hairbrush, there being nowhere found any opinions forbidding that. But in the changes of an ordinary climate a lens will get considerably blurred with Ifilmy accumulations, oven though it maj never have been touched by the hand oi brought in contact with grease in any form. A practical photographer once ■aid that if a finger mark should come |&]>on a lens, which he valued very highly ho would immediately return it to its European manufacturers. Ho would not dare to touch it himself. Any pne may venture upon taking an objective apart and cleaning it, provided he will only do it carefully. In the first place “do not uso either fine chamois skin, tissue paper or an old Bilk handkerchief, or any other such material as is usually advised. ” Uso cheesecloth. It is not tho wiping material thongh, that is apt to do tho mischief, but the fine dust particles, which may be sillcions and become attached to the glass. This is the way to begin on the objective: Take a wooden bowl, cleaned with soap and water, then half fill it with clean water of about tho samo temperature as the glass and put in a toaspoonful of ammonia in half a pail of water. First Wash a pieoo of cheesecloth thoroughly with soap and Water and rinse and clean. Then place it in tho tjo'w’l or pail, so that the lens woirt slip. Never use t£ie same piecq of cheesecloth twice. Mr. Brasji&ar says that when tho lens has been dusted and placed in tho water H prefers to rub it with tho palms of his cleaned hands, although cheesecloth Ja There seems to bo .absolutely no danger of scratching it when plenty of water is used. When thoroughly Washed, take tho glass out, lay it on a bundle of cheesecloth, and usd several pieces of tho same, which have been previously washed clean and dried, and dry it." Don’t lot it drain dry. Take up all the moisture with the cloth. Vigorous rubbing will do no harm if the surfaces have no .abrading material. Ah objective can be cleaned without taking it out of its cell. First dust off the particles, then use the cheesecloth With soap and water. Go over the surface gently with one piece of cloth and throw it away and take another, then a third one. When the glass is clean, taka a piece of dry cloth and dry it. Of course photographic lenses can be cleaned in the same way. How to Iffolte Shoe Dressing i.t Home. A soft dressing that is loss injuri oua than the majority of polishes found In tho market is made by mixing to a smooth paste vaseline or cosmoline and lampblaok. Apply a very little with a flannel doth and rub in thoroughly. Tho oil fills up tho pores and renders tho leather almost waterproof after using it several times. This dressing does not impart a high .gloss to the leather, but merely softens audcolors.it. Where a polish is desired the liquid dressings arc preferable. How to Stuff Lobster Tails. Cut in throe-sixteenths of an inch squares a pound of lobster meat cooked In court bouillon. To prepare the court bouillon miuoQ up 2 ounces of onions, 2 ounces celery root, 2 ounces of carrote &fid put them into a saucepan with 4 branch of parsley, thyme aud bay loaf; also a pint of water, soma salt and a pint of white wine. Let boil for ton minutes. Add to these half the samo quantity of cooked mushrooms, cut up the same size. Fry colorless in butter 2 tablespoonfuls of onions. Add 2 ounces of flour and fry without browning. Dilute with a pint of milk aud cook again for a few minutes. Then add the lobster, mushrooms. Mix well. Boil up once, remove aud cool off. Fill the half tail shells, well donned and dried, with this preparation. Dredge over bread crumbs, besprinkle with butter and brown them in a hot oven.

How to Use Lemons on the Hair. A lemoq cut in half, or, hotter still, la quarters, so that the pulp can easily be applied to thoroots of the hair, will ■top any ordinary caso of falling out. It is an agreeable remedy. Besides being 000 l and pleasant to the skin, the ■cent, unlike that loft by the petroleum core, Is distinctly refreshing, audit also has the merit of cheapness. How to Mult® Oatmeal Bags. Take 6 pounds of oatmeal, ground Ann, » half pound of oastile soap, reduoed to powder, and a pound of powdfiredjtalian orris rook. Cut a yard of thin cheesecloth into bags about four Inches square, sewing them on the machine and taking care not to leave any untied .threads where a break may let the contents ooze out. Mix the soap, oatmeal and orris root thoroughly and fill the bags loosely. Sew up the opening in each and lay them away to be used as required. They are used as a Sponge dipped in warm water, making a thick velvet lather and wonderfully softening the skin while the orris imjparis a lasting fragrance. How to Ohio Mosquito Bites. Apply spirits of hartshorn diluted With twice as much water or sal volatile or cologne. If the part is left puffygnd swelled after the tingling has abated, rtd> it with soap liniment. A piece of raw onion Is also most efficacious for bites and stings. The following is a cure and a deterrent: A paste made of the plant Pyrethrura rosoonm, tnlzed with spirits, diluted with twice as much water as spirits. This applied WtyFoure the bite and prevent others, as the odor will keep away the mosquito. How to Heep Laco Vella Smooth. ' it* best way to keep lace veils smooth and in good order is to roll- them up when they are taken off, keeping the edges flat and well stretched apart during the process. This method will make a veil last longer and keep It looking fresher than .any veil case, however dainty in design.