Show Do You Know That you can clean a sponge by soaking it a few hours in cold buttermilk That lettuce has recently been pronounced pro-nounced a sleepproducer 0 That lemons may be kept fresh by wrapping them in paper and inclosing in a closely covered pot or jar That washleather should be washed in warm not hot water and yellow soap That a schoolboys rubber will take many a spot out of kid gloves That combs and brushes should be quickly washed in warm water and soda That a good liquid glue may be made by pouring naphtha upon shellac until it is of a creamy consistency That household pests flee before an application ap-plication composed of two ounces of quicksilver and the whites of two eggs That leather satchels may be cleaned with a sponge dipped in warm water in which a little oxalic acid has been dissolved dis-solved That the same mixture of oxalic acid and water with more acid to the water will take ink spots out of wood It should be rubbed on with a cloth And do you know that half a dozen good household receipts well applied are worth the price of at least one coveted Christmas present |