Buckeye cookery

Silver Polish For Shirts.—One ounce each of isinglass and borax, one tea-spoon white glue, two tea-spoons white of an egg. Cook well in two quarts of fine starch. Starch in this and dry. Before ironing, apply some of it to the bosom and cuffs with a cloth till well dampened. Iron at once with a hot glossing iron. . f oii WAN Eg LA 7 eB ara 78 | r . eat": THE LAUNDRY. 445 Ve Y i To Crean Buack Lace.—Take the lace and wipe off all the dust care- | a fully, with a cambric handkerchief. Then pin it out on a board, insert- Ua ‘ing a pin in each projecting point of the lace. Spot it all over with table- P: beer, and do not remove the pins until it is perfectly dry. It will look quite fresh and new. To MAKE SOAP TO DO AWAY WITH RusBBinG.—Dissolve five bars of soap in aa four gallons soft water, one and three-fourths. pounds sal-soda, and three- ite fourths pound borax; stir while cooling. Use one cupful to make suds to ae soak clothes in; wring out and put into the boiler; use same quantity of ; soap for boiling the same. . ate ENAMEL FOR SuHirtT Bosoms.—Melt together with a gentle heat, one ounce white wax and two ounces spermaceti; prepare in the usual way a sufficient quantity of starch for a dozen bosoms, put into it a piece of this enamel the | size of a hazel-nut, and in proportion for a large nunjber. This will give clothes a beautiful polish. To REMOVE THE CoLoR FROM Burr Catico.—If some kinds of buff calico © are dipped in strong soda water, the color will be removed and the figures Lieve of other colors remain on a white ground. This is valuable sometimes, as Pe buff calico spots easily. If pink calico be dipped in vinegar and water tet after rinsing, the color will be brighter. ny To Remove the Stain of Nitrate of Silver—from the flesh, or white goods of any kind, dissolve iodine in alcohol, and apply to the stain; then take a piece of cyanide potassium, size of a hickory-nut, wet in water, rub on the spot, and the stain will immediately disappear; then wash the goods or hands in cold water.—G. W. Collins, Urbana. Mother's Hard-times Soap.—Take all the bits of soap that are too small to be longer used, shave down, and let soak in soft water enough to cover them over night; in the morning add more soft water, and boil until thoroughly melted and of the consistency of taffy; pour into molds, and you have a nice cake of soap.—Miss Addie Munsell. Coffee Starch.—Make a paste of two table-spoons best starch and cold water; when smooth stir in a pint of perfectly clear coffee (made by pouring boiling water on the grounds left from breakfast and straining) boiling hot; boil five or ten minutes, stir with a spermaceti or wax candle, strain, and use for all dark calicoes, percales, and muslins. To Remove Iron-Rust.—While rinsing clothes, take such as have spots of rust, wring out, dip a wet finger in oxalic acid, and rub on the spot, then dip in salt and rub on, and hold on a warm flatiron, or on the tin or copper tea-kettle if it have hot water in it, and the spot will immediately disappear; rinse again, rubbing the place a little with the hands.. _ Erasive Fluid.—For the removal of spots on furniture, cloth, silks, and other fabrics, when the color is not drawn, without injury: One ounce castile soap, four of aqua ammonia, one of glycerine, and one of spirits of wine; dissolve the soap in two quarts soft water, add the other ingredients, apply with a soft sponge, and rub out.—A. Peabody, Cincinnati, O. | To Clean White Satin and Flowered Silks.—Mix sifted stale bread-crumbs with powder blue, and rub it thoroughly all over, then shake it well and dust it well with clean, soft cloths. Afterwards where there are any gold or silver flowers, take a piece of crimson ingrain velvet, and rub the flowers with it, which will restore them to their original luster.