Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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To Clean Decanters

There is rectified benzine is excellent for cleaning riboften much difficulty experienced in cleaning bons and silks. It is applied with a clean decanters, especially after port wine has stood sponge. Persons who apply these liquids and in them for some time. The best way is to mixtures to cleaning silks, &c., must be carewash them out with a little pearlash and ful to do so in an apartment where there is warm water, adding a spoonful or two of fresh neither fire nor lamp burning, under the penslaked lime if necessary. To facilitate the alty of an explosion. (See No. 346.) action of the fluid against the sides of the glass, a few small cinders may be used. 438. To Remove Stains from Kid

Or, soak the decanters for some hours in the most delicately colored gloves, by sus- Gloves. Stains may be removed, even from warın soda and water; if there is much cut- pending them for a day in an atmosphere of ting on the outside, a brush will be necessary ammonia . Provide a tall glass cylinder, in the to remove the dirt and stains from the crevbottom of which place strong aqua ammonia. ices. Cut a potato into small dice, put a Be careful to remove from the sides of the jar good handful of these into the decanter with any ammonia that may have been spattered some warm water, shake the decanter briskly upon them. Suspend the gloves to the stopuntil the stains disappear; rinse in clean cold per in the jar. They must not come in conwater, and let them drain until dry. Vinegar water, and let them drain until dry. Vinegar tact with the liquid. the same 439. Το Clean Kid Gloves. Dr. Reiway.

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