Part 475

Unslaked lime 2 pecks Common salt 1 peck Rice flour 3 pounds Spanish whiting 1⁠/⁠2 pound Glue (clean and white) 1 pound Water, a sufficient quantity.

Slake the lime in a vessel of about 10 gallons capacity; cover it, strain, and add {762} the salt previously dissolved in warm water. Boil the rice flour in water; soak the glue in water and dissolve on a water bath, and add both, together with the whiting and 5 gallons of hot water to the mixture, stirring all well together. Cover to protect from dirt, and let it stand for a few days, when it will be ready for use. It is to be applied hot, and for that reason should be used from a kettle over a portable furnace.

«To Soften Old Whitewash.»—Wet the whitewash thoroughly with a wash made of 1 pound of potash dissolved in 10 quarts of water.

WHITEWASH, TO REMOVE: See Cleaning Preparations and Methods.

WHITE METAL: See Alloys.

WINDOW-CLEANING COMPOUND: See Cleaning Compounds.

«WINDOW DISPLAY:»

See also Sponges.

An attractive window display for stores can be prepared as follows:

In a wide-mouth jar put some sand, say, about 6 inches in depth. Make a mixture of equal parts of aluminum sulphate, copper sulphate, and iron sulphate, coarsely powdered, and strew it over the surface of the sand. Over this layer gently pour a solution of sodium silicate, dissolved in 3 parts of hot water, taking care not to disturb the layer of sulphates. In about a week or 10 days the surface will be covered with crystals of different colors, being silicates of different metals employed. Now take some pure water and let it run into the vessel by a small tube, using a little more of it than you used of the water-glass solution. This will displace the water-glass solution, and a fresh crop of crystals will come in the silicates, and makes, when properly done, a pretty scene. Take care in pouring in the water to let the point of the tube be so arranged as not to disturb the crop of silicates.

«WINDOW PERFUME.»

In Paris an apparatus has been introduced consisting of a small tube which is attached lengthwise on the exterior of the shop windows. Through numerous little holes a warm, lightly perfumed current of air is passed, which pleasantly tickles the olfactory nerves of the looker-on and at the same time keeps the panes clear and clean, so that the goods exhibited present the best possible appearance.

WINDOW POLISHES: See Polishes.

WINDOWS, FROSTED: See Glass.

WINDOWS, TO PREVENT DIMMING OF: See Glass.

«Wines and Liquors»

«BITTERS.»

Bitters, as the name indicates, are merely tinctures of bitter roots and barks, with the addition of spices to flavor, and depend for their effect upon their tonic action on the stomach. Taken too frequently, however, they may do harm, by overstimulating the digestive organs.

The recipes for some of these preparations run to great lengths, one for Angostura bitters containing no fewer than 28 ingredients. A very good article, however, may be made without all this elaboration. The following, for instance, make a very good preparation:

Gentian root (sliced) 12 ounces Cinnamon bark 10 ounces Caraway seeds 10 ounces Juniper berries 2 ounces Cloves 1 ounce Alcohol, 90 per cent 7 pints

Macerate for a week; strain, press out, and filter, then add

Capillaire 1 1⁠/⁠4 pints Water to make up 2 1⁠/⁠2 gallons

Strength about 45 u. p.

Still another formula calls for Angostura bark, 2 1⁠/⁠2 ounces; gentian root, 1 ounce; cardamom seeds, 1⁠/⁠2 ounce; Turkey rhubarb, 1⁠/⁠2 ounce; orange peel, 4 ounces; caraways, 1⁠/⁠2 ounce; cinnamon bark, 1⁠/⁠2 ounce; cloves, 1⁠/⁠4 ounce.

«Brandy Bitters.»—

Sliced gentian root 3 pounds Dried orange peel 2 pounds Cardamom seed 1 pound Bruised cinnamon 1⁠/⁠2 pound Cochineal 2 ounces Brandy 10 pints

Macerate for 14 days and strain.

«Hostetter’s Bitters.»—