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HOUSEHOLD HINTS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 23.

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A LITTLE salt will bring up a low fire if thrown on.
PINE floors can be treated to a coating of boiled linseed oil.
A DULLED steel pen can be improved by heating it in a gas jet.
SCRATCHES on furniture can be rubbed with beeswax melted in linseed oil.
A BAG of charcoal hung in a cistern of water will absorb all the bad odor.
A GOOD cement for china is ordinary carriage varnish. It is not affected by water.
KEROSENE oil will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water, and render them as pliable as new.
TO KEEP butter hard, without ice, take a new flower pot, wash it clean, wrap it in a wet cloth, and set it over the butter.
SALTS of lemon—equal parts of powdered oxalic acid and tartaric acid—applied to rust and ink spots on clothing, will remove them.
TO DESTROY the odor of paint in a newly painted room, put a handful of fresh hay in a bucket of water and let it stand in the room overnight.—Every Thursday.