Take a pail of clean, soft, lukewarm water, a clean, soft piece of flannel, wash your oil-cloths, and wipe them very dry, so that no drop of water is left to soak in and rot the fabric ; and you will have little cause to complain that they wear out so much faster than your mother’s — provided you selected cloths of good make. After washing and dry- ing, if a cloth is wrung out of a dish of skim-milk and water, and the oil-cloth is rubbed over with this and again well dried, the freshness and the lustre of the cloth will well repay the extra labour. OIL PAINTINGS, 'to Clean. — Wash the picture with flannel and a weak solution of soap, or with warm beer and a little soda. When dry, ap- ply a solution of gum tragacanth, or brown varnish. OIL PAINTINGS, to Clean. — If smoked, or very dirty, take stale urine, in which a little common salt is dissolved ; rub them over with a wool- len cloth dipped in the mixture till they are clean ; then with a sponge wash them over with clean water ; dry, and rub over with a clean cloth. OIL PAINTINGS, Varnish for.— Use white of egg, and sugar- candy dissolved, a tea-spoonful of brandy, all most intimately mixed, first the egg alone. Varnish the pictures with it. It is better than most varnishes, as it can be washed off when the picture wants cleaning again. OIL 279 out OILED PAPER.— Brush sheets of paper over with “boiled oil," in which dissolve a little shellac carefully over a slow fire, and suspend them cn a line until dry. Waterproof. Employed to tie over pots and jars, and to wrap up paste blacking, &c. OIL of Brown Paper. — Dip a piece of thick brown paper into the best salad oil. Set the paper on fire upon a plate and the oil that drops from it is a good remedy for bums. OIL STAINS, to Remove.— Apply benzoin, or magnesia to both sides of the silk, satin, or stuff ; apply it moistened for 2 or 3 hours, and then brush off. Repeat if needful. Oil stains may be removed from silks, dresses, leather, paper, &c., by applying pipe- clay, powdered and mixed with water to the thickness of cream ; leave it on for 4 hours. This will not injure the best colours. OINTMENT for BURNS. - Slippery elm, elder bark, scraped, yar- row tops and leaves, plantain leaves, stramonium leaves, of each 1 oz. Lard and bees’ wax, sufficient to make into ointment. It is a good ointment for the Piles also. OINTMENT, Brown. — Extract of henbane, 1 dr. ; yellow wax, J oz. ; red precipitate, drs. ; pure zinc pow- dered, 1 kt dr. ; fresh butter, 3 ozs. Melt and miz, and add rj dr. of cam- phor dissolved in olive oil. This oint- ment is good for ringworm, all cutane- ous eruptions, for ulcers, sore lips, itch, chronic ophthalmia, &c. OINTMENT, Celandine.— Take garden celandine, bruise, and cover with any kind of spirits ; simmer, then add fresh butter, and let it remain over the fire until the leaves are crisped ; strain. It is useful in cutaneous erup- tions and piles. OINTMENT, for Eruptions. —Simmer ox-marrow over the fire, add a little salt, and a tea-spoonful qf brandy. Strain, When cold, rub the part affected. OINTMENT OF LEAD.— Take of olive oil half a pint ; white wax, s ozs. ; sugar of lead, 3 drs. Let the sugar of lead, reduced into a fine pow- der, be robbed with some part of the oil, and added to the other ingredients,

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Take a pail of clean, soft, lukewarm water, a clean, soft piece of flannel, wash your oil-cloths, and wipe them very dry, so that no drop of water is left to soak in and rot the fabric ; and you will have little cause to complain that they wear out so much faster than your mother’s — provided you selected cloths of good make. After washing and drying, if a cloth is wrung out of a dish of skim-milk and water, and the oil-cloth is rubbed over with this and again well dried, the freshness and the lustre of the cloth will well repay the extra labour. OIL PAINTINGS, 'to Clean. — Wash the picture with flannel and a weak solution of soap, or with warm beer and a little soda. When dry, apply a solution of gum tragacanth, or brown varnish. OIL PAINTINGS, to Clean. — If smoked, or very dirty, take stale urine, in which a little common salt is dissolved ; rub them over with a woollen cloth dipped in the mixture till they are clean ; then with a sponge wash them over with clean water ; dry, and rub over with a clean cloth. OIL PAINTINGS, Varnish for.— Use white of egg, and sugar-candy dissolved, a tea-spoonful of brandy, all most intimately mixed, first the egg alone. Varnish the pictures with it. It is better than most varnishes, as it can be washed off when the picture wants cleaning again. OIL OILED PAPER.— Brush sheets of paper over with "boiled oil," in which dissolve a little shellac carefully over a slow fire, and suspend them on a line until dry. Waterproof. Employed to tie over pots and jars, and to wrap up paste blacking, &c. OIL of Brown Paper. — Dip a piece of thick brown paper into the best salad oil. Set the paper on fire upon a plate and the oil that drops from it is a good remedy for burns. OIL STAINS, to Remove.— Apply benzoin, or magnesia to both sides of the silk, satin, or stuff ; apply it moistened for 2 or 3 hours, and then brush off. Repeat if needful. Oil stains may be removed from silks, dresses, leather, paper, &c., by applying pipeclay, powdered and mixed with water to the thickness of cream ; leave it on for 4 hours. This will not injure the best colours. OINTMENT for BURNS. - Slippery elm, elder bark, scraped, yarrow tops and leaves, plantain leaves, stramonium leaves, of each 1 oz. Lard and bees’ wax, sufficient to make into ointment. It is a good ointment for the Piles also. OINTMENT, Brown. — Extract of henbane, 1 dr. ; yellow wax, J oz. ; red precipitate, drs. ; pure zinc powdered, 1 kt dr. ; fresh butter, 3 ozs. Melt and mix, and add rj dr. of camphor dissolved in olive oil. This ointment is good for ringworm, all cutaneous eruptions, for ulcers, sore lips, itch, chronic ophthalmia, &c. OINTMENT, Celandine.— Take garden celandine, bruise, and cover with any kind of spirits ; simmer, then add fresh butter, and let it remain over the fire until the leaves are crisped ; strain. It is useful in cutaneous eruptions and piles. OINTMENT, for Eruptions. —Simmer ox-marrow over the fire, add a little salt, and a tea-spoonful of brandy. Strain, When cold, rub the part affected. OINTMENT OF LEAD.— Take of olive oil half a pint ; white wax, s ozs. ; sugar of lead, 3 drs. Let the sugar of lead, reduced into a fine powder, be rubbed with some part of the oil, and added to the other ingredients,

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