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Ink—Black for School Purposes—A Quart for a Dime.
Extract of logwood, 1/2 oz bi-chromate of potash, 10 grs.; dissolve in a quart of hot rain water. When cold, put into a bottle and leave uncorked for one week, when it is ready for use. At first it is a steel-blue, but becomes quite black. I used this ink for a long time while in an office, and considered it equal to the best writing fluid. [This last remark, is all in which I disagree with him. It does, however, make a good school ink. ] Moderate freezing does not hurt it.
Brocade or Broche Shawls—To Clean the White Center-Also Applicable to Fine, White Lace. —Spread a clean, white cloth upon the table and sift over it, dry, white corn-meal, as large a spot as the shawl center, and lay the shawl upon it, and cover the center also, with the meal; then roll it up closely and put it away for a week, when, by dusting out the meal, the shawl will be nice and clean, " so says " Valentia, " of Brockwood, Ill, in the Blade, or, she says:
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