Put the veil into a strong lather of white soap, and very clear water, and let it simmer slowly for a quarter of an hour. Take it out and squeeze but not rub it. Rinse it in two cold waters, with a drop or two of liquid blue in the last. Have ready some very clear and weak gum arabic water, or some thin starch, or rice-water. Pass the veil through it, and clear it by clapping. Then stretch it out even, and pin it to dry on a linen cloth, making the edge as straight as possible, opening out all the scallops, and fastening each with pins. When dry, lay a piece of thin muslin smoothly over it, and iron it on the wrong side.

How To Clean Freestone

"Wash the hearth with soap, and wipe it with a wet cloth. Or rub it over with a little freestone powder, after washing the hearth in hot water. Brush off the powder when dry.

How To Mack A Brick Hearth

Mix some black lead with soft soap and a little water, and boil it - then lay it on with a brush. Or mix the lead with water only.

How To Clean Brass

Rub it over with a bit of flannel dipped in sweet oil - then rub it hard with finely powdered rotten-stone - then rub it with a soft linen cloth - and polish with a bit of wash leather.

Rub creaking hinges with soft soap.

Common Tins

Throw some wood-ashes into a wash-kettle, pour on water till it is two-thirds full, and then let it boil. Or make a strong lye. Dip in the tins when it is boiling hot; and, if they are very dirty, leave them in about ten minutes. Take them out, and cover them with a mixture of soft soap and the very finest sand. This must be rubbed on with a coarse tow-cloth. Then rinse them in a tub of cold water, and set them in the sun to drain and dry. When dry, finish by rubbing them well with a clean woollen cloth or flannel. They will look very nice and bright. You may clean pewter in the same manner.

How To Clean Alabaster

Make a mixture, in the proportion of two ounces of aquafortis to a pint of cold water, which ought to be filtered. Dip a clean brush in this liquid, and wash the alabaster with it for five minutes or more. There should be a brush small enough to go in the most minute parts. Then rinse it with cold clear water, and set in the sun for two or three hours to dry. The aquafortis will make the alabaster very white. Soap should never be used.

Cleaning Japanned Waiters, Urns, Etc

Rub on with a sponge a little white soap and some lukewarm water, and wash the waiter or urn quite clean. Never use hot water, as it will cause the japan to scale off. Having wiped it dry, sprinkle a little flour over it; let it rest awhile, and then rub it with a soft dry cloth, and finish with a silk handkerchief. If there are white heat marks on the waiters, they will be difficult to remove. But you may try rubbing them with a flannel dipped in sweet oil, and afterwards in spirits of wine. "Waiters and other articles of papier mache should be washed with a sponge and cold water, without soap, dredged with flour while damp; and after a while wiped off, and then polished with a silk handkerchief.

Cheap Contrivance For Filtering

A very cheap and good contrivance for filtering is to take a large garden flowerpot, and lay in the bottom a piece of sponge, so as to cover the whole. Upon this put a few smooth clean pebbles, to keep the sponge in its place, and fill up the pot, to within two or three inches of the brim, with a mixture of one part of powdered charcoal to two parts of fine sharp sand. Then cover the top of the pot with a piece of clean white flannel, tied tightly round the rim with a twine, but so as to sink or sway down in the centre. Set the flower-pot in a pan or tub, and pour the water into the flannel, letting it filter through the charcoal, etc, and, by the time it has passed through the sponge, and come out at the bottom, it will be clear.

Knives And Forks

Handles of ebony should be cleaned with a soft cloth, dipped in a little sweet oil; and after resting awhile with the oil on them, let them be well wiped with a clean towel. Ivory or bone handles ought to be washed with a soaped flannel and lukewarm water, and then wiped with a dry towel. To preserve or restore their whiteness, soak them occasionally in alum-water that has been boiled and then grown cold. Let them lie for an hour in a vessel of this alum-water. Then take them out, and brush them well with a small brush (a tooth-brush will do), and afterwards take a clean linen towel, dip it in cold water, squeeze it out; and, while wet, wrap it round the handles, leaving them in it to dry gradually,- as, if dried too fast, out of the alum-water, they will be injured. If properly managed, this process will make them very white.

How To Clean Black Lace Veils

These are cleansed by passing them through a warm liquor of bullock's gall and water; after which they must be rinsed in cold water, then cleansed for stiffening and finished as follows: Take a small piece of glue, about the size of a bean, pour boiling water upon it, which will dissolve it, and when dissolved, pass the veil through it, then clap it between your hands.

How To Take Out Paint From A Dress

When fresh (having wiped off as much as you can), it may be taken out by repeated applications of spirits of turpentine or of spirits of wine, rubbed with a soft rag or a flannel. Ether also will efface it, if applied immediately. If the paint has been allowed to harden, nothing will take it off but spirits of turpentine, rubbed on with perseverance.

Indelible Marking Ink, Without Preparation

One drachm and a half nitrate of silver (lunar caustic), one ounce distilled water, half an ounce strong mucilage of gum arabic, three-quarters of a drachm of liquid ammonia; mix the above in a clean glass bottle, cork tightly, and keep in a dark place till dissolved, and ever afterwards. Directions for use:-Shake the bottle, then dip a clean quill pen in the ink, and write or draw What you require on the article; immediately hold it close to the fire, or pass a hot iron over it, and it will become a deep and indelible black, indestructible by either time or acids.