To Remove Stains

Ingredients

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• ten parts water well boiled
• one inch
• lemon juice
• salt

Directions

1. Tea or Coffee — Boiling water over the stain.

2. Chocolate — Sprinkle with powdered borax and soak well in cold water. Add boiling water.

3. Fruit — Dip into Javelle Water and rinse thoroughly, or treat like tea stains.

4. Ink — Soak two or three hours in coal oil, remove and wash in strong soap suds, or rub with lemon juice and salt.

5. Milk — Wash quickly in cold water.

6. Scorch — Hang in sun and try soap solution.

7. Grease — Wash in alcohol, kerosene or molasses and rub well.

8. Paint — Rub with benzine or turpentine.

9. Blood — Soak in cold water until stains turn brown, then wash in warm water and soap.

10. Mildew — Rub lemon juice upon the spots and place in the sunshine. Salt may also be used.

11. Iron Rust — Spread carefully over bowl in which you have placed one-half teaspoon of water. Drop by drop apply oxalic acid until the stain lightens; then dip directly in water. Repeat if necessary. It is often wise to add ammonia to rinsing water, or apply lemon juice and table salt and hold over teakettle spout.

12. Hot milk is even better than boiling water for remov- ing stains.

13. Lard will sof1?en and remove automobile grease, and can be washed out afterwards.

14. Perspiration stains can be rubbed with a mixture of soap, lye and ammonia or with a thic~k lather of white soap and hung out in strong sun to dry. Afterward rinsing in clear water.

15. Give the children more milk, and ivatch them grow.

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17. To restore aluminum ware, which has become black, to its original beauty, apply vigorously with a flannel cloth ashes moistened with kereosene.

18. Milk heated to boiling point is of great value as a stimulant in cases of extreme fatigue, mental or bodily. It supplies real strength as well as exhiliaration.

19. When beating whites of eggs for frosting, etc., add one teaspoonful, to each egg, of cold water. This makes it beat up stiff, and adds to the quantity as well. A meringue for pies or puddings made in this way retains its stiffness and is much more satisfactory.

20. A HOME REMEDY FOR BURNS

21. No housekeeper should be without a bottle of olive oil and lime-water for burns. A preparation should al- ways be in readiness in case of emergency. Add lime- water to oil until a creamy emulsion is formed, and bottle, always shaking well before applying. The effect of this upon burns is wonderful in its healing and soothing pow- ers, and it is equally efficacious for sunburn.

22. A CLEANING HINT

23. In cleaning clothes with gasoline the ring left around the part cleaned can be removed by steaming it over the teakettle.

24. A GOOD USE FOR ALCOHOL

25. Keep a bottle of alcohol in the dining room closet and if fruit juice of any kind is accidentally spilled on the tablecloth gently rub the spot with a clean cloth saturated with alcohol. The spot vanishes almost instantly. It is best to do this while the spot is still wet. This method may be used while the cloth is on the table, for the alcohol evaporates at once, leaving the cloth as fresh as when first laundered. Be sure to protect the polished surface of the table from the alcohol.

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27. FOR COOKING OF FRUIT CAKE

28. To prevent burning of fruit cake place the batter in the cake-tin, greasing and papering in the usual way, then place cake-pan in a roaster with the lid on. Put in oven and bake the usual number of hours. It will not bum and cooks more evenly.

29. CLEANING ZINC

30. Rub with a flannel cloth moistened with a little kero- sene or use Scourine or Dutch Cleanser to take off the spots. Then polish with a mixture of vinegar and alum.

31. CLEANING STEEL KNIVES AND FORKS

32. Scour with powdered bath-brick, using a cork dipped in oil or water, and then into the powdered bath-brick. Steel knives that are to be packed away for some time ought to be very carefully dried before putting away.

33. DON'T SCORCH YOUR MILK

34. Before putting on milk to boil always rinse out the pan with water. This will prevent the milk from burning.

35. AMMONIA FOR SHOES

36. A few drops of ammonia, put into the water that is used for dampening the sponge, when applying cleaner to white shoes, leaves them beautifully clean, and takes out any kind of a stain.

37. The white of a raw egg turned over a bum or scald is soothing and cooling. If quickly applied, it will prevent inflammation, besides relieving the stinging pain.

38. Before putting eggs in hot fat to fry, stir in a spoon- ful of flour; and then the fat will not spatter, as the flour absorbs any moisture,

39. AN INGENIOUS FEEDING DISH

40. If you have puppies or other small animals to feed, get one of the round cake tins with a tube in the center. Drive a pointed stick through the tube into the ground and you will have a feeding dish that will not tip over.

41. 1^0 grow sturdy sons and fair daughters — a diet of pure milk.

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43. TO PRESERVE EGGS

44. To one part water glass add ten parts water well boiled. Boil the water and let get cold before mixing. Put eggs in stone jar and pour mixture over to cover them at least one inch. This will thicken and become milky look- ing.

45. VEGETABLE MEDICINE

46. Turnips, onions, cabbage, cauliflower, watercress and horseradish contain sulphur.

47. Potatoes, salts of potash.

48. French beans and lentils give iron.

49. Asparagus benefits kidneys.

50. Lettuce for tired nerves.

51. Celery for rheumatism and neuralgia. /

52. Tomatoes stimulate the healthy action of the liver.

53. Spinach contains salts of potassium and ii'on. Spe- cialists rate this as one of the most precious vegetables.

54. Beets and turnips purify the blood.

55. Carrots form good blood and purify the skin.

56. TO STONE CHERRIES

57. A good way to stone cherries is to use a conmion steel writing pen, turning the point into a new penholder, thus making a little scoop so that it fits the stone and removes it without bruising the fruit.

58. FOR MENDING BROKEN CHINA

59. For mending broken dishes for china of any kind, use white paint as you would glue. Let the china stand for three or four days after the paint is applied. The dishes after that period may be washed in hot water and used daily without the least danger of coming apart.

60. TO KEEP CATSUP FROM MOLDING

61. Just before sealing bottles of catsup or chili sauce place a few whole cloves on top to keep it from molding.

62. Tour baby's friend — pure milk — a quart a day.