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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,