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To Clean a Waste Pipe.

Just before retiring at night, pour into the clogged pipe enough liquid soda lye to fill the "trap" or bent part of the pipe. Be sure that no water runs into it until morning. The lye will convert all the offal into soft soap, and the first current of water in the morning will wash it away and clear the pipe clean as new.

To Remove Iron Rust. Mix fine salt and cream of tartar or lemon juice, moisten with water, lay on stain and expose to the sun. Repeat application if nec- essary.

In Putting on Milk to Boil

Always rinse out the saucepan with water. This will prevent the milk from burning.

To Remove Mildew Stains. Soak in milk for 48 hours, or rub with lemon juice and salt. Will also remove peach stains.

To Remove Finger Ring. Hold hand in very cold water.

To Clean Ermine. Rub with corn meal, renewing the meal as it becomes soiled.

Coal Fire.

If your coal fire is low, throw on a tablespoonful of salt and it will help.

Fruit Stains in Linen. To remove, rub the part on each side with yellow soap. Then tie up a piece of pearl-ash in the cloth and soak well in hot water or boil. Afterward expose the stained part to the sun and air until removed.

To Remove Glass Stoppers. A cloth wet with hot water and applied to the neck will cause the glass to expand, and the stopper may be removed.

To Remove Rust From Knives, Forks, Etc.

Cover with sweet oil, well rubbed on, and let it remain for 48 hours, then rub with unslaked lime powdered very fine, until the rust disappears.

Use ball blueing instead of bottle blueing.

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Stains. Medicine stains may be removed from silver spoons by rubbing them with a rag dipped in sulphuric acid, and washing it off with soap- suds. Stains may be removed from the hands by washing them in a small quantity of oil of vitriol and cold water without soap.

Grass Stains.

A simple way to remove grass stains to spread butter on them and lay the article in the hot sunshine, or wash with alcohol.

To Remove Fruit Stains. Fruit stains on white goods can very often be removed by pouring boiling water directly from the kettle over the spots, or soak them in sweet milk. This must be done before putting into water or before soap is used.

To Prevent Rust on Flatirons.

Beeswax and salt will make them as smooth as desired. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep for that purpose, and when the iron is hot rub it first with the wax, then scour it with the salt.

Iron rust may be removed from delicate fabrics by covering spot thickly with cream of tartar, then twisting cloth to keep cream of tartar over spot. Put in a saucepan of cold water and heat water gradually to boiling point.

To Clean Silver and Gold Lace. Take a piece of woolen cloth, place the lace on this, free it of all dust with a brush, and then apply some alum (which has been powdered and sifted through a fine sieve) with a soft brush. This will remove the tarnish and restore its former brightness.

Sapolio removes ink stains. They can also be removed by laying the stained part in sour milk over night.

A pitcher of cold water on a table in your room does much to purify the air.

Open canned fruit and vegetables one hour or so before needed. It is richer when the oxygen is thus restored.

Hot vinegar will remove paint from window glass.

Stains on the hands can be removed by rubbing with salt moist- ened with lemon juice.

To clean piano keys rub over with alcohol.

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