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USEFUL l•'ORMULAS.

The following

will

also make, an oilcloth look well. Wash it once a mont h

with skim-milk and water in equal quantities, or rub it once in three months

with boiled linseed oil, putting on very little, and rubbiug it in well with a

rag, then polish with an old silk rag.

503

TO CLEAN OLD MARBLE.

Take a bullock's gall, one gill of soap suds and half a gill of turpentine,

make into a paste with pipe clay; apply it to the marble, let it

dry

a day or

two, then rub it off.

If

very dirty give a second application.

504

TO CLEAN SILVER.

Wet whiting with liquid hartshorn, and t his will remove black spots, or

boil half an ounce of pulverized har tsborn in a pint of water and pour on to

rags, dry them and use to cleanse sil ver. P olish with wash leather.

505

TO CLEAN SILVERWARE.

Save wat er in which potatoes have been boiled with a little salt. Let it

'become sour, which it will do in a few days; heat, a ud wash the article wit h

a woolen cloth, rinse

in

clean wat er, dry with chamois leather ; never use soap .

Polish with an old linen rag. Silverware when not in use keeps best if

wr apped in blue tissue paper.

506

TO CORR.ECT SOURNESS IN WINE.

Put

in

a bag the root of a wild horseradish cut in bits. Let it down in

the wine and leave

it

t here two days; take it out and put in fresh r oot, r epeat–

ing the same until the desideratum is acquired. A bag of wheat will have t he

same effect wher e the

~e

is but slightly affected.

507

TO CURE CORNS.

Supercarbonate of soda, one ounce, :finely pulverized, and mixed witb h::i.lf

an ounce of lard. Apply on a lipen ralffe every- night qntil cu:red,