TO TAKE IRON MOULDS OR RUSTS OUT OF LINEN.
Dissolve the powder of burnt alum in the juice of lemon: wet the place with it, and dry it with the back of a spoon, in the fore part of which put a live coal; and in doing it 5 or 6 times, the iron moulds will be washed out.
TO CLEAN GOLD AND RESTORE ITS LUSTRE.
Dissolve a little sal-ammoniac in urine: boil your soiled gold therein, and it will become clean and brilliant.
HOW TO TAKE SPOTS OR STAINS OUT OF SILK OR VELVET.
Take sopwort (a herb of that name), bruise it, and strain out the juice; add a little black soap, and mix them well to a moderate thickness; rub it over the stained or spotted place; warm it gradually before the fire, and the stains will rub out with the hand.
TO RESTORE THE VOICE AND REMOVE HOARSENESS.
Many causes may contribute to this defect, particularly severe colds, breathing an air too full of dust, &c., too much speaking or singing, or being too much exposed to the air, on quitting convivial meetings and other entertainments of jollity.
To remove this defect, drink freely of barley and liquorice water, eat black currant jelly, and gargle the mouth twice or thrice every morning with the syrup of hedge mustard, diluted in a glass of milk or warm water.
It is certainly very mortifying to a lady to have a masculine voice, and yet it is a very frequent circumstance. As a means of contracting the larynx, the extra wideness of which is the cause, you must drink nothing hot; frequently drink lemonade, water acidulated with verjuice, oranges, &c., and gargle the throat every morning with equal parts of verjuice and water.