The Household.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 249, 22 September 1883, Page 2

The Household.

MISCELLANEOUS REOIP_J3.

You can make cloth? waterproof by varnishing it :with linseed oil, : c Dating with a solution, of rubber iv naphtha. To make glue waterproof, i soak for: 24 hours m water : until reduced to a stiff jelly, pour on a dessertspoonful- of dry linseed oil, , and mix well with the jelly before boiling. It ; will then be impervious to damp ;, and woodwork, if mended with. the above, will remain sound throughout the winter, v vi To take ink but of linen, 'dip* the ink spot m pure melted) tallow ; then wash out the tallow, and the- ink will > come out with it. -.. This is' unfailing. To clean decanters, take some soft brown or blotting paper, . wet and soap it, and roll it up m small pieoes and put it into .the decanter with some warm water. Shake well tand then rinse with clear cold water ; wipvthe outside with a dry cloth and let' the decanter dram. To clean pie plates that have long; been used for baking, put them into a large kettle of cold water and throw on them , a few! hot ashes or cinders, and let them boil for an] hour. Gum camphor 'shattered about mice f haunts cfrivei; them aw^r7 " - * *" \~ " i The washerwomen of Holland and Belgium, so proverbially clean; and who; get up their linen; so beautifully white, use refined borax instead of eoda^ m the proportion ; of oae ; large handful of borax to about ten gallons of boiling waten They save m soap nearly half; For laces, cambrics, arid lawns an extra quantity ot powder is used, and for crinolines requiring to be made stiff, a strong solution is necessary. Borax being: a neutral salt, does not m the s slightest degree injure the texture' of the linen. Its effect is:. to sottea the hardest water. —-■•