--If you wish to give a fine soft polish to
varnished furniture, and remove any slight imperfections, rub it once
or twice a week with pulverized rotten-stone and linseed oil, and
afterward wipe clean with a soft silk rag.
CREAM.--The quantity of cream on milk may be greatly increased by the
following process: Have two pans ready in boiling hot water, and when
the new milk is brought in, put it into one of these hot pans and
cover it with the other. The quality as well as the thickness of the
cream is improved.
*TEETH.--Honey mixed with pure pulverized charcoal is said to be
excellent to cleanse the teeth, and make them white. Lime-water with a
little Peruvian bark is very good to be occasionally used by those who
have defective teeth, or an offensive breath.
TAINTED BUTTER.--Some good cooks say that bad butter may be purified
in the following manner: Melt and skim it, then put into it a piece
of _well-toasted_ bread; in a few minutes the butter will lose its
offensive taste and smell; the bread will absorb it all. Slices
of potato fried in rancid lard will in a great measure absorb the
unpleasant taste.
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