Household Economy

For waalring finger-marks f rom lookng-glasses or wi.ndows, pnt a few drops if ammonia on a moist rag and make ;juick work of it. TO TAKE STAINS OUT OF WHITK GOODS. One teaspoonful of chloride of lime in about tliree quarts of water will take any kind of stain out of white goods ; pilt the part with the stain on it in the water, and let it remain nntil out. It will not injure the cloth if prepared in this way ; only spots on white goods can be taken out thus. REMOVING INK SPOTS. Apply spirits of salte made into a solution with five times its weight of water ; then wash it off in a minute or two with clear water. A solution of citric acid or oxalic acid will answer the same purpose, and neither of them will efface the printing, but they will rot the paper if not washed off in pure water. (, ' YEKNMENT WHITEWASH. Síaok half a bushei of limo with boiling water, kceping it covered during the procese ; strain it and add a pack of salt dissolved in warm water, three pounds of rice boiled until it is a thin paste, half a pound of Spanish whiting and a pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water. Mix these well together and let stand severa! days. CHINTZ ÖOWNS. Chintz is about ns troublesome to wash as anything can be. Ordinary soap spoils it and clear water does not cleanse it. Boil two quarts of rice in two gallons of water, and when it is nearly cool wash the chintz in it. Then prepare more rice water, but strain it and dilnte it, and wash again. Then starch the chintz with the rico water, and when dry rub it with a cold iron, or better still, a bit of polished marble. (.XEANING RUSTY STEEL. Steel which has rusted can be cleaned by brushing with a paste made of half aii ounce cyanide potassium ; half au ounce castile soap; one ounce whiting, and water suflicient to form a paste. The steel should first be washed with a solution of , half an ounce cyanide potassium in two ounces water. To preserve steel from rusting, a good method is to paint it with inelted caoutchouc, to which somc oil has been added. TO COLOR PHOTOGRAI'HS. Take a strougly-printed photograph on paper and satúrate it from the back with a rag dipped in castor oil. Cqrefully rub off all excess from the surfaec 'after obtaining thorough transparcncy. Take a piece of glass an inch larger all round than the print, pour npon' it dilute gelatine, and thon squeeze the print and glass together. Allow it to dry, and then work in artista' oil colors from the back until you get the proper effect from th! front. : Both landscapes and portraits can be effectively colored by the above method without any great skül being required. vPAINTED FURNITURE. In the days when every young lady is supposed to give her personal attention to furnishing her own room, nobody need hesitate to try her hand at painting her own chairs and bedstead, dressing-case and table. Tube paints may be used for the decorative work, and ordinary paint for the coarser parts. Backgrounds and scarlet, blue or paleyellow decorations are pretty, and pille blue and pink have a good effect when the carpets and eurtains eorrespond in tint. Imitating chestnut or any othev wood is in bad taste. If you eannot have genuine expensive articles, be satisfied with those which make no pretensions.