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well, and shake back into the liquid again, repeating the operation five times
(in order to make the goods absorb as much color as possible); then put them
through the chrome tub in the same way; then return again to the sugar of lead
tub, treat as before, rinse off well, and dry.
To make a dark shade use brown sugar of lead, repeating three times in the sugar
of lead and twice in the chrome.
To color Cotton a good Black. --To a tub of cold water add for twenty pounds
goods, five pounds sumac, wring and shake out goods and return to liquid a few
times, let stand all night in sumac, then to another tub of water add a few
pails of lime-water, put in goods, wring out, and put into another tub of cold
water in which is two pounds of dissolved copperas and a pailful of old sumac
liquor, wring out six times; wring out and put into the lime tub again, adding
two more pails of lime water. Prepare another tub of water, and add to it six
pounds of logwood and one pound of fustic previously scalded, put in the cotton,
and wring out and return ten times; lift out, darken liquid with a little
copperas, and return the goods.
The omission of the sumac gives a purplish black, while the recipe as above
gives a jet black.
To color Silk Royal-blue. --Take ten pounds of silk, make up a tub of nitrate of
iron at six degrees, to which add one pint of good muriate of tin and four
ounces of tartaric acid; wring out and return, repeating for about an hour; in
another tub add one and a half pounds of dissolved prussiate, and one gill of
oil of vitriol. Wash goods out of iron tub, and put into prussiate tub, repeat
in iron twice and once in prussiate, wash out of the iron, and put in a tub in
which oil of vitriol until it tastes sour has been dissolved; give six wrings to
clear off any rust that may adhere to it.
More prussiate will produce a darker, and less a lighter color, but the same
quantity of iron and tin must be used.
To color Woolen-yarn Yellow-brown. --For ten bunches dye with two pounds of
camwood, five pound fustic, one each of logwood and copperas.
To color Woolen-yarn Scarlet. --Boil eight pounds yarn one hour with one-half
pound cochineal, two pounds of young fustic, seven-tenths pound of white or
brown tartar, three tenths of a quart of oxalic muriate of tin.
To color Ladies' Cloth Purple. --For twenty-five yards goods, boil two and a
half hours with ten pounds of alum, two pounds of argol, and one-fourth of a
quart of nitrate of tin; wash well and finish with seven and a half pounds
logwood and one pound of peach wood in a clean vessel. Put in cool in finishing,
and heat to boiling point.--Thomas Wharton.
EXTRAS THROWN IN.--To purify a room of unpleasant odors, burn vinegar, resin, or
sugar; to make chicken gravy richer, add eggs found in chicken, or if none, yolk
of an egg; soak garden seeds in hot water a few seconds before planting; to
prevent cholera in chickens, put assafoetida in water they drink, and let them
pick at coal ashes; in using hard water for dish-water add a little milk;
to clean paint, add to two quarts hot water two table-spoons turpentine and one
of skimmed milk, and only soap enough to make suds, and it will clean and give
luster; iron-rust on marble can generally be removed with lemon-juice; a thin
coat of varnish applied to straw-matting makes it more durable and adds to its
beauty.
NOTE.--The compilers take pleasure in acknowledging their indebtedness for many
valuable points embodied in this book, to "Care of the Sick;" "Accidents and
Emergencies;" "Health Hints," published by Cowan & Co., New York, "In the
Kitchen," by Mrs. Elizabeth S. Miller, and to the excellent articles on
Housekeeping, contributed by Mrs. H. W. Beecher, to the "Christian Union."
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