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furniture.

_Faded Goods:_--Plush goods and all articles dyed with aniline colors,
which have faded from exposure to the light, will look as bright as
new after sponging with chloroform.

_Choking:_--A piece of food lodged in the throat may sometimes be
pushed down with the finger, or removed with a hair-pin quickly
straightened and hooked at the end, or by two or three vigorous blows
on the back between the shoulders.

_To Prevent Mold on the Top of Glasses of Jelly_, lay a lump of
paraffine on the top of the hot jelly, letting it melt and spread over
it. No brandy paper and no other covering is necessary. If preferred
the paraffine can be melted and poured over after the jelly is cold.

_To Preserve Ribbons and Silks:_--Ribbons and silks should be put away
for preservation in brown paper; the chloride of lime in white paper
discolors them. A white satin dress should be pinned up in blue paper
with brown paper outside sewn together at the edges.

_To Preserve Bouquets:_--Put a little saltpetre in the water you use
for your bouquets and the flowers will live for a fortnight.

_To Destroy Cockroaches:_--Hellebore sprinkled on the floor at night.
They eat it and are poisoned.

_To Remove Iron Rust:_--Lemon juice and salt will remove ordinary iron
rust. If the hands are stained there is nothing that will remove the
stains as well as lemon. Cut a lemon in halves and apply the cut
surface as if it were soap.

_To Keep Bar Soap:_--Cut it into pieces and put it into a dry place;
it is more economical to use after it has become hard, as it does not
waste so readily.

_To Brighten Carpets:_--Carpets after the dust has been beaten out may
be brightened by scattering upon them corn meal mixed with salt and
then sweeping it off. Mix salt and meal in equal proportions. Carpets
should be thoroughly beaten on the wrong side first and then on the
right side, after which spots may be removed by the use of ox-gall or
ammonia and water.

_Silver Tea and Coffeepot:_--When putting away those not in use every
day lay a little stick across the top under the cover. This will allow
fresh air to get in and prevent the mustiness of the contents,
familiar to hotel and boarding-house sufferers.

_To Prevent Creaking of Bedsteads:_--If a bedstead creaks at each
movement of the sleeper, remove the slats, and wrap the ends of each
in old newspapers.

_To Clean Unvarnished Black Walnut:_--Milk, sour or sweet, well rubbed
in with an o