Make a thick mucilage by boiling a handful of flax-seed; add a little dissolved toilet soap; then, when the mixture cools, put the gloves on the hands and rub them with a piece of white flannel wet with the mixture.  Do not wet the gloves through.  Or take a fine, clean, soft cloth, dip it into a little sweet milk, then rub it on a cake of soap, and rub the gloves with it; they will, look like new.

Another good way to clean any color of kid gloves is to pour a little benzine into a basin and wash the gloves in it, rubbing and squeezing them until clean.  If much soiled, they must be washed through clean benzine, and rinsed in a fresh supply.  Hang up in the air to dry.

STARCH POLISH.

Take one ounce of spermaceti and one ounce of white wax; melt and run it into a thin cake on a plate.  A piece the size of a quarter dollar added to a quart of prepared starch gives a beautiful lustre to the clothes and prevents the iron from sticking.

FOR CLEANING JEWELRY.

For cleaning jewelry there is nothing better than ammonia and water.  If very dull or dirty, rub a little soap on a soft brush and brush them in this wash, rinse in cold water, dry first in an old handkerchief and then rub with buck or chamois skin.  Their freshness and brilliancy when thus cleaned cannot be surpassed by any compound used by jewelers.

TO CLEAN SILVER PLATE.

Wash well in strong, warm soap-suds, rinse and wipe dry with a dry soft cloth; then mix as much hartshorn powder as will be required into a thick paste, with cold water; spread this over the silver, with a soft cloth, and leave it for a little time to dry.  When perfectly dry brush it off with a clean soft cloth, or brush and polish it with a piece of chamois skin.  Hartshorn is one of the best possible ingredients for plate powder for daily use.  It leaves on the silver a deep, dark polish, and at the same time does not injure it.  Whiting, dampened with liquid ammonia, is excellent also.

TO REMOVE STAINS FROM MARBLE.

Mix together one-half pound of soda, one-half pound of soft soap and one pound of whiting.  Boil them until they become as thick as paste, and let it cool.  Before it is quite cold, spread it over the surface of the marble and leave it at least a whole day.  Use soft water to wash it off, and rub it well with soft cloths.  For a black marble, nothing it better than spirits of turpentine.

Another paste answers the same purpose:  Take two parts of soda, one of pumice stone and one of finely-powdered chalk.  Sift these through a fine sieve and mix them into a paste with water.  Rub this well all over the marble and the stains will be removed; then wash it with soap and water and a beautiful bright polish will be produced.