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 Stone Stairsand Halls

Boil 1 pound of pipe-clay with a quart water, and a quart small beer, and put in a bit of stoneblue. Wash with this mixture, and, when dry, rub the stone with flannel and a brush. clean water, rubbing it dry with a soft chagrease. After which wash the part well with mois. Paint thus cleaned looks as well as when first laid on, without any injury to the most delicate colors. It is far better than using soap, and does not require more than half the time and labor. a table-spoonful of aqua ammonia in a quart Another simple method is as follows:-put of moderately hot water, dip in a flannel cloth, and with this merely wipe over the wood-work; no scrubbing will be necessary.

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