Buckeye cookery

To CLEANSE ARTICLES MADE OF WHITE ZEPHYR.--Rub in flour or magnesia, changing often. Shake off flour and hang in the open air a short time. To Remove Ink-stain.—Immediately saturate with milk, soak it up with a rag, apply more, rub well, and in a few minutes the ink will disappear. ‘ To Clean Alpaca.—Sponge with strained coffee. Iron on the wrong side, having black cambric under the goods. Take out Machine Oil.—Rub with a little lard or butter and wash in warm water and soap, or, simply rub first with a little soap and wash out in cold water. To Stiffen Linen Cuffs and Collars.—Add a small piece of white wax and one tea-spoon brandy to a pint of fine starch. In ironing, if the iron sticks, soap the bottom of it. In WASHING CHILDREN’S STOCKINGS, wooden stocking forms are a great help on which to dry them. Obtain them at the furnishing store, or have them made without much expense. To Clean Wash Boilers.—Wash, when a little rusty, with sweet milk; or grease with lard. A better plan is to prevent rust by thoroughly drying boiler, as well as tubs, before putting away for the week. To Take out Parnt.—Equal parts of ammonia and spirits of turpentine will take paint out of clothing, no matter how dry or hard it may be. Saturate the spot two or three times and then wash out in soap-suds. To Restore Velvet.—When velvet gets crushed from pressure, hold the parts over a basin of hot water, with the lining of the dress next the water. The pile will soon rise and assume its original beauty. Spots.—In cloth or calico, produced by an acid, may be removed by touching the spot with spirits of hartshorn. Spots produced by an alkali may be removed by moistening them with vinegar or tartaric acid. - To Prevent Blue From Fading.—To prevent blue from fading, put an ounce of sugar of lead into a pail of water, soak the material in the solution | for two hours, and let dry before being washed and ironed; good for all shades of blue. To Take Out Miupew.—Wet the cloth and rub on soap and chalk, mixed together, and lay in the sun; or lay the cloth in buttermilk for a short time, take out and place in the hot sun; or put lemon juice on, and treat in the same way. To Remove Ink Stains From CLotHIne.—Dip the spots in pure melted tallow; wash out the tallow and the ink will come out. If articles are rubbed out in cold water while the stain is fresh, the stain will often be entirely removed. For Washing Red Textile Linen, use tepid water, with a little powdered borax, which serves to set the color; wash the linen separately and quickly, using very little soap, rinse in tepid water, containing a little boiled starch; hang to dry in the shade, and iron when almost dry. To Clean Alpaca.—Put goods in a boiler half full of cold rain-water, and let boil three minutes. Have ready a pail of indigo-water (very dark with indigo), place goods in it, after wringing out of boiling water, let remain one-half an hour, then wring out, and iron while damp. How to CLEAN VELVET.—Invert a hot flat-iron, place over it a single, thickness of wet cotton cloth, lay on this the velvet, wrong side next the wet cloth, rub gently with a dry cloth until the pile is well raised; take off the iron, lay on a table, and brush it with a soft brush or cloth. To Take Grease Out of Silks, Woolens, Paper, Floors, Etc.—Grate thick over the spot French (or common will do) chalk, cover with brown paper, set on it a hot flatiron, and let it remain until cool; repeat if necessary. The iron must not be so hot as to burn paper or cloth. SUBSTITUTE FoR WASHING-SopA.—A German scientific journal recommends laundresses to use hyposulphite of soda in place of common washing-soda. ° It does not attack the fabric in any way, and at the same time exerts some bleaching actions which greatly improve the appearance of linen and calicoes.