Important: Safety Warning
This page describes practices involving highly flammable materials in ways that create a serious risk of fire or explosion.
In addition, this page directs the use of hazardous substances — such as benzine, gasoline, lye, or strong acids — for household tasks. These materials are highly flammable, corrosive, or poisonous, and the practices described have caused fires, burns, and poisonings.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
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STOVE POLISH
Add to one pint benzine, one ounce pulverized resin; when dissolved, mix any good and finely ground black lead, using the above just the same as you would water for mixing stove polish. Apply with a small paint brush, and rub it smooth, as it dries rapidly; when dry, polish with a soft stove brush; very little rubbing is required. For sheet-iron use the benzine and resin alone, apply with soft rags, and rub rapidly until dry and shining.
TO KEEP SILK. Silk goods should not be folded in white paper, as the chloride of lime used in bleaching the paper will impair the color of the silk. Brown or blue paper is better; yellow India paper is better still. Silk intended for dress should not be kept in the house long, as lying in folds causes it to crack or split, particularly if thickened with gum. White satin dresses should be pinned up in blue paper, with coarse brown paper on the outside, sewed together on the edge.