USES FOR TURPENTINE
There are few housekeepers who are not familiar with some of the numerous uses of turpentine, and as its odor is clean and wholesome it has the advantage over many remedies whose odors are offensive.
Turpentine and soap will remove ink-stains from linen.
A few drops added to water in which clothes are boiled will whiten them.
It will exterminate roaches if sprinkled in their haunts.
Turpentine will remove wheel-grease, pitch, and tar.
A few drops on a woollen cloth will clean tan shoes nicely.
Clean gilt frames with a cloth moistened in turpentine.
Carpets can be cleaned and colors restored by going over occasionally with a broom dipped in warm water in which a little turpentine is added.
An equal mixture of turpentine and linseed oil will remove white marks from furniture caused by water.