How To Restore Mildewed Clothes

A cure for mildew that is a remedy of an old negro laundress is excellent for all white goods, and wil not injure fine materials. Pour a quart of boiling water over 2 ounces of chloride of lime, add 3 quarts of cold water, let the mixture stand until settled, strain, and it is ready for use. The material should be steeped in the limewater for a day or over night, when the spots will be found to have disap-peared.

To Remove Splinters

When a splinter has been driven into the hand it can be extracted by steam. Fill a wide-mouthed bottle nearly full of hot water, place the injured part over the mouth of the bottle and press it slight ly. The action thus produced will draw the flesh down, and in a minute or two the steam will extract the splinter, also the inflammation.

For Hoarseness

Bake a lemon or a sour orange 20 minutes in a moderate oven. Open at one end and take out the inside, sweeten pulp with sugar or molasses.

To Make Hard Water Soft

Stir into 50 gallons of water 1/2 pint freshly slacked lime, or 1/2 lb. borax. Mr. H. Frysinger.

Chester, Pa.

To Clean Bottles

Put them into a kettle of cold water with some wood ashes and boil, then rinse in clean soft water.

To Kill Moths In Carpets

Wring a coarse cloth out of clean water, spread it smoothly on the part of the carpet where moths are suspected to be, and iron it with a hot iron. The steam will destroy the moths and eggs.

To Cure A Sting Of Bee Or Wasp

Bind on common baking soda dampened with water, or mix common earth with water to the con-sistency of mud.

To Take Cinders From Eye

Place one or two grains of flax seed in the eye.

Durable Black Ink

1 drachm bichloromate potassium, 1 drachm prussiate potassium, 1 oz. extract logwood, 4 pts lukewarm rainwater. When the ingredients are thoroughly dissolved, the ink is ready for use. If it gets too thick add more water.

Mr. H. Frysinger, Chester, Pa.