The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
HOME INTERESTS.

y" Pipsissiway Potts" in the October
number of Arthtfr's Home Magazine, gives
the Following useful hints in household
ecOHemy:
: HoIIsekeepers must take care in dealing
with furniture to keep water away from
everything soluble in water, oil from every
thing porous, alcohol from varnish and
acid from marble.
When busting piano or any finely var
nisRed surface, use feather buster, for fear
of particles that might scratch.
When stepping ON a chair, no matter
how great your hurry, take time TO lay
piece of paper on the chair first. 1t may
save blemish that would meet you every
day of your life - --,-.-- 81
How oftenyve ha We seenthe collars az oyey-
coats nicked with haIigiDg on a sharp nail,
or drawn out OF shape BY hanging them
on nail while wet and heavy. 1t is very
good plan if you drive nail upon your
back porch for this purpose, or if YOU are
living in your old house yet and use nails
! instead of hooks, to run the nail through
spool when you drive it in the wall.
Another little thing that may mot be
new to every woman. After your CATERS.
are half worn out, tkGy car be fnendeds by.
! a neat and careful shoemaker so as to last
as long as you have already worn
them. For one dollar they can be soled
and nice, substantial trimming of bronze
morocco put onto hide the worn foes and
sides. The great advantage in this is that
YOU will not have 30 break anew pair, but
! VIII still wear your soft, easy-iitting ''nev
er-saw better" CATERS. z5.:. .s-..- ..-..
| To make sweet pickles, take u pounds of
| fruit 6 pounds of sugar and / quart of
cider vinegar cloves and cinnamon to suit
your ownytaste. Let The fruit bon In the
above until soft, take out carefully on
dish, let the sirupboikdown, then put on
the fruit again and boil a fewminutes; fill
I your Jars, and seal with thick paper dipped
in white of egg.
I Tomatoes can bekeptalnlost any length
TOf time in pure cider vinegar diluted with
water-two parts of water to one of vine
gar. Pick when ripe, but not very soft;
leave the stems on. and do not break or
brlIise the skin; lay them in weak bripe for
| forty-eight hours. Then pack, without
pressing, in wood or stone, and put the
| liquid on them cold. After they are all
put in, place something on them to keep
| them under the liquid-nothing any hcav-
Ter though than is positively required to
keep them under. They can be used as
| tomatoes fresh from the vines.
I'm putting down carpet. lay newspapers
all over the floor; it prevents moths from
attacking it if they are in the cracks OF the
floor, and likewise prevents the dirt that
works through from grinding ON the
threads. Always lay q mat or rug, or
eyen'a bit of another Kind of carpet, enear
the door, the Stove, the table, or places
4 brought most frequently into use. Rugs
Hook pretty always, TIfthe ink is split on
the carpet, or lamp tipped over, a rug
will hide tine IusiglItly place. and appear
well, too. If moths get about the edges,
OFvunder your piano, or writing1lesk,
wiring a coarse towel slightly out water;
lay it over the suspected places, and run a
/ hot ilat-iron over it several times.
Sweet potatoes cam be dried in a way
that, when cooked. they will be found al
4 most az good az new. Boil the potatoes
and then slice them and place the slices on
plates and dry IN the oven. Before cook
ing, soak them three or four hours, and
then stew slowly ON top of the stove in
little water until soft enough foruse. Add
pepper, salt, butter, and fix them as you
would to make any potatoes palatable.
n | am afraid there is nothing that will
positively. prevent our willie homeknit
hose from shrinking unless we half knit
them. They will not shrink if very loose
i
and warm. A LADY, who was visiting in
Scotland last summer told me that stock
| ing-boards were common there-a thin
board cut out in the shape of stocking
so that when new yarn hose were washed
| they could be stretched and kept in the
right size and shape on those boards.
- An old lady taught me how to make
good pumpkin pies. First make a good,
sweet, rich custard with milk, eggs and
fine white sugar; then add sufficient
pumpkin stewed dry and pressed through
a sieveO or colander. Season with CHINA
mon and ginger and then. the old lady
said. women generally stop and think
1 they've done all they can 10 make the pie
l good, and there they've gone and left out
the salt--for pumpkin pie is flat. insipid.
lacking something very materially, if a
good pinch of salt is not added; that gives
body to the pie. The old neighbOr is cor
rect; the pie is ten times better if a gener-
Gus pinch Of salt is added. / e +