The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-14
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

CASTOR oil is an excellent thing to
soften leather.
LUNAR caustic carefully applied, SO
as not to touch the skin, will destroy
warts.
A SOLUTION of chloride of iron will
remove nitrate of silver stains from
the hands.
If your fat-irons are rough rub them
with fine salt and it will make them
smooth.
SHELLAc is the best cement for jet
articles. Smoking the joint renders 1t
black to match.
BUTTER will remove tar spots. Soap
and water will afterward take out the
greasy stain.
UNsLAcKED lime is excellent for clean
ing small steel articles such as Jewelry,
buckles, and the like.
To prevent moths in carpets, wash
the floor before laying them with the
spirits of turpsntine or benzine.
To clean q brown porcelain kettle,
boil peeled potatoes in it. The porce-
lain will be rendered nearly as white az
when new.
The pain and soreness from flesh
wounds will be almost Immediately re-
lieved by holding for few moments in
the smoke of burning wool.
RHUBARB leaves freshly gathered from
the garden and placed near the crevises
where cockroaches are found are said to
be invaluable for exterminating these
troublesome insects.
CARE OF KN1vEs.-Do not permit
case-knife blades or forks to stand in
hot water. It expands the steel and
cracks the handles. Ivory handles
should never be placed in water.
CURING CoRNs.-Peoole who suffer
from corns should keep bottle of am
monia upon their washsrand and rub
the corn night and morning with the
extract. This, with little care and
| trimming, will soon reduce them.
BAKERS GINGERBREAD.-Onec cup mo-
lasses, two and one-half cups of -four,
three tablespoons butter or lard, one
teaspoon soda dissolved in five table
| spoons warm water, one tablespoon
ginger, and half teaspoon or less OF
alum.
COFFEE CAKE.-One cup of molasses,
one cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one
cup OF lukewarm coffee, one teaspoon
soda dissolved in the molasses. Season
with allspice, nutmeg and cloves add
plenty of currants, and make quite stiff
with flour.
RICE PANCAKES half pound
of rice to a jelly. When cold, mix with
it pint of cream, two eggs, little salt
| and nutmeg. Stir in four ounces of
butter just warmed, and add as much
flour as will make batter thick enough.
Fry in as little lard as possible.
Coop Y-CAKE.-Beat up one
egg with one-third of a cup of sugar,
add one tablespoonful of melted butter,
and one pint of sweet milk, two and a
half cups of meal, half a cup of flour,
teaspoonful of cream tartar and half
teaspoonful of soda.
To PURIFY SINK.-In hot weather it
is ain ost impossible to prevent the sinks
becoming foul, unless some chemical
preparation is used. One pound of
copperas dissolved in four gallons of
water, poured over a sink three or four
times, will completely destroy the often
sive odor.
CHOCOLATE CAKE.-Whites of two
eggs, chocolate sufficient to thicken
Generally use three small cakes German
prepared chocolate), sweeten to taste.
Spread in layers between cakes, same as
III 1elly cakos COCOauuG cake uhy De
made IN the same way, using grated
cocoanut instead of chocolate.
NEVER repaper a room without first
removing the old paper. The moisture
of the fresh paper causes fermentation
of the old paste, and hurtful gases are
generated !; and if the old paper con.
tanned arsenical colors, the arsenic is
liberated in deadly form. Tear off the
old paper and make the walls clean, be-
fore applying the new.
ONE of the best antidotes for bugs,
| ants, ETC., is a wash made of hot alum
water and applied literally to all their
haunts. A sure cure for bedbugs is to
wash the bedstead thoroughly and anoint
| with a stiff feather every crack and
crevice with quicksilver and the white
| of eggs well beaten together. Ten ceLts
worth of quicksilver to the white of one
egg is sufficient.
CELLARS need thorough renovation.
No half-work will do if you would avoid
disease. Drains and privies, and the
entire premises, in fact, must receive
attention. It is now well known that
typhoid fever never occurs in clean
places where perfect drainage and pure
water are afforded. It can always be
traced to sewer gas, tainted wells, foul
cellars and yards, or some uncleanli-
ness,