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To Clean Stoves and Stone Hearths

- Varnished stoves should have several coats of varnish put on in summer, in order to have it get hard, before being used. They should be washed in warm water, without soap; a little oil rubbed on them occasionally, makes them look nice, and tends to keep the varnish from wearing off. Black lead and British Lustre are both of them good to black stoves which have never been varnished; if they have been, it will not answer. They should be mixed with cold water, to form a paste, then rubbed on the stoves, and remain till quite dry; they should then be rubbed with a dry, stiff, and flat brush, till clean and polished. If you wish to preserve the color of free-stone hearths, wash them in water, without any soap; then rub on them, while damp, free-stone, that has been reduced to a powder; let it remain till MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES. dry, then rub it off. If the hearths are stained, rub them hard with a piece of free-stone. If you wish to have your hearth look dark, rub it over with hot soft soap, alone, or diluted with water. For brick hearths, use redding, mixed with thin hot starch and milk.

To Extract Ink from Floors. - Ink spots on floors can be removed by scouring them with sand wet in oil of vitriol, and water, mixed. Rinse them, when the ink is extracted, with strong pearl ash water.

To Remove Paint and Putty from Window Glass.-Put sufficient pearlash into hot water, to make it very strong of it; then saturate the paint, which is daubed on the glass, with it. Let it remain till nearly dry, then rub it off hard, with a woollen cloth. Pearlash water is also good to remove putty before it is dried on the glass. If it dries on, whiting is good to remove it.