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 Looking Glasses

at a time than one, and they will be less liable Take part of a newspaper, fold it small, dip it to be broken, for good knives will snap when in a basin of clean cold water, and when it is pressed on too heavily. Many will say that thoroughly wet squeeze it out as a sponge, and they cannot clean two knives at once, or that then rub it hard over the face of the glass, they can get through them faster one by one; taking care that it is not SO wet as to rundown but if they will only try it a few times in the in streams. After the glass has been well rubbed with the wet paper, let it rest a few minutes and then go over it with a fresh dry newspaper, till it looks clear and bright , which it will do almost immediately. The inside of windows may be cleaned in this way, and they will look beautifully clear.

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