The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-07-17
eaRDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
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BE careful how you use washing soda.
Au above an ounce per gallon of water
is wasteful and injurious.
Finger marks may be removed from
vanished furniture by the use of little
sweet oil upon a soft rag.
Keep sugar in a dry, clean box. See
TO 1t that all your boxes for supplies are
clean and sweet-smelling.
To remove old putty from window
frames, pass red-hot poker slowly over
1t, and it will come off easily.
A few drops of glycerine in bottle
of mucilage will cause the mucilage to
adhere to glass when used upon labels.
To restore the color of black kid boots
take a small quantity of black ink, mix
1t with the white OF an egg, and apply
with soft sponge.
A bottle of faxseed oil, chalk and
vinegar mixed to the consistency of
cream, should be kept in every house
for burns, scalds, etc.
To clean chromos, dampen a linen
rag slightly and go over them gentlys
IL the varnish has become defaced,
cover with thin mastic varnish.
Quicksilver beaten up with the white
of an egg, and applied with feather to
every crack and crevice of bedstead, is
the very best bug preventative.
To sew carpet rags on a machine,
make the stitch short, run it obliquely
across the rags where they are to be
joined, and sew a good many before cut
ting the thread.
Silk stockings should be washed in
cold water, with soap, rinsed in cold
ster, laid fiat on a fine towel, rolled
tightly until dry, and rubbed with a
piece of flannel to restore the gloss.
Cutters cement, for fastening the
blades of dinner knives in their ivory
handles, consists of resin, four parts;
beeswax, one part; brickdust, one part.
Fill the hole in. the handles with the
cement, heat the tang of the blade, and
press in.
Slices of juicy lemon are used with
brisk rubbing by the Indian jewellers
for cleaning silver. The article is then |
covered with the slices for few hs1SsS-
swllled in water, stirred in hCt - 1ou5e'
and brushed, washed, an2 "a psuus, 's
M. NJ. = -.5ssS11ss nom this treatment.
rI1.<lss practice of pressing on the edge
of razor in stropping soon rounds it.
the pressure should be directed to the
back which should never be raised from
the strop. If you shave from heel to
point of the razor, strop it from point
to heel, but if you begin with the point
in shaving, then strop it from heel to
point.
7sDingy dresses can be bleached and
made into something serviceable and
pretty. Let them be washed and boiled
IN hot suds until all the color possible
is extracted, then finish the job by scald-
ing in lye and washing with suds and
laying on the first young grass. Good
prints and other articles of dress are
frequently cast aside because they are
faded, but they may be made to render
good service by this mode of bleaching.
To clean off the ugly scratches left on
paint by lighting matches upon it, cut a
sour orange or lemon in half; apply the
cut half to the marks, rubbing for mo-
ment quite hard; then wash them of
with clean rag, dipped first in water
TO moisten it, and then in whiting. Rub
well with this rag, dry thoroughly, and
nine times out of ten the ugly marks
will vanish. OF course, sometimes they
are burned in so deeply that they cannot
be eradicated.
Recipes.
STRAWBERRY PUDDING. - One pint
bour milk, half pint sweet milk, two
eggs, one tablespoonful cream, three
cups Strawberries, little salt, and houl
enough to make a thick batter. Bake
and eat with cream and sugar.
PUMPKIN FRITTERs. -Four tablespoon
flis of pumpkin left from dinner, two
eggs, half a pint of milk, two table
spoonfuls of brown sugar. Thicker
with -four into batter of the consist
ency of waffle batter Beat until light
aud fry in boiling lard, two or thre,
apoonfuls to each fritter.
BEATEN BISCUIT. One quart of -four
large tablespoonful of lard, one tea
poonful of salt, aud a small pinch o
Hpia; mix INTO a very stiff dough, witt
Neet milk; beat thirty minutes; or
pu use kneader, run the dough bacl
81 forth until rather soft and perfectl
nooth.
eTUFFINe FOR POULTRY AND FISH =
70 cups of light bread or cracke
mbs; one cup of mashed potatoes
e egg we'll beaten; butter size of a
g; one small teaspoonful of sage an
Fory; one dozen CLANS or oyster
popped; moisten with warm, rich
ew milk, adding salt and pepper to tn
ste. This is nice for poultry and fish
nr duck, goose or wild game of an
nd, an onion chopped fine and adde
IN Improvement.
EsoALLoPED MEAT.-Take bits of col
ast or tender steak, chop fine, an
son with sage, pepper and salt, PR
Fa bread or crackers as for stuffing
fkey; butter a dish (earthen bakin
sh is the best); cover the bottom
BE dish with layer of stuffing; add
yer of meat; alternate the stufing an
--a meat until the dish is fnll: finis