The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-11-20
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Air your bed rooms daily.


Begin economizing for the winter.
Clean your cellars and outbuildIngs.
Examine your furs for fear of moths.
Never fill your kerosene lamps after night
Salt fish are quickest and best freshened
by soaking in sour milk
Fish may be scaled much easier by dipping
into boiling water minute.
Fresh meat, after beginning to sour, will
sweeten il placed out OF doors In the cool
over night
Kerosene will soften boots or shoes which
have been hardened by water and make them
as pliable as new.
Salt will curdle new milk; hence, in pre-
pairing milk porrldge, gravies, etc.. the salt
should not be added until the dish is pre-
pared.
Clear boiling water will remove tea stains
and many fruit stains. Pour the water
through the stain and thus prevent its spread
ing over the fabric.
NOSE BLEED.-If the use of cold water
Will not stop the bleeding. place powdered
alum in the nose and leave 1t there until the
wounded vein is healed.
Ointment and kerosene mixed In equal
proportions and applied to bedsteads Is an
unfailing bed bug remedy, and coat OF
yhitewash is ditto for walls of log house.
To CLEAN BRAss.-1mmerse or wash it sew
eral times in sour milk or whey; TINS Will
brighten il without securing; it may then be
secured with a wooden cloth dipped in ashes.
To PRESERVE EGGs-A pound of lime and
one pint of salt to three gallons OF water.
Put all eggs not wanted for daily use into
this brine, and they will keep all the year
round, and the whites froth almost as well as
fresh eggs.
Beeswax and salt will make your rusty fiat
irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie
lump of wax in rag and keep 1t for that
purpose When the irons are hot rub them
first with the wax rag, then scour with paper
or cloth sprinkled with fine table salt.
CHICKENS FOR LUNCH.-Spnt young chick
en- down the back, wash and wipe dry, sea
son with salt and pepper. Put in dripping
pan, and place in a moderate oven; bake
hree-quarters of an hour. This is much bet
ter for travelling lunch than when seasoned
with butter.
To MAKE PorATo BIsCUIT.-Boil mealy po-
tatoes; pare and mash them; put two good
sized ones 10 a quart of Graham Hour, and
rub them in as you would shortening; then
wet with sweet milk or water, knead well,
roll, cut into small biscuit; prick with
fork, and bake IN quick oven.
If brooms are dipped for a minute or two
into a kettle of boiling suds once week
they will last much longer. 1t makes them
tough but pliable, and a carpet is not halt
as much worn by sweeping with broom
thus cared for. A good h0usekeeper will
not fail to see that her brooms are all thus
scalded, at least occasionally.
DIR. Dio Lewis, declares, substantially, that
the disease of which a msjority of American
babies die is feather Dillews-that is to say,
the diseases of which most OF them die are
produced oy feather pillows, through the
over beating of the brain. Hence, In his
opinion, the great American babysaver is
the straw pillow. cit makes me shiver," he
says, "to think of the number Of deaths
among those precious little ones, which L
have myself seen, where L have no doubt thai
cool, straw pillows would have saved them
Which sounds reasonable.
Pure cider vinegar is the best vinegar
made; that man u factured from wine is ex-
cellent but much too expensive for general
use, To make a first class article from cider
is a very simple matter-so much so that
many pomologisls turn the entire product OF
their apple orchards into vinegar, as the
least troublesome and often the most profit
able use that can be male of 1t. 1t is only
necessary TO let the acid fermentation take
place in the right temperature, with the
bunZ open and little mother" added from
a barrel alresdy made and in use.
To TELL THE AGE OF FowLs.-lf ahen'sspuI
l. hard and the scales of the leg are tough, sac
Is old, whether you see her head or not but
her head will ccrroborate your observation
III the NJ der bill Is 30 stiff that you can no
bend il down, and the comb thick and rough
leave her, no matter how fair and plump, 10
some che less particular. A young hen ha
only the rstiments OF spurs the scales or
the legs are smooth, glossy and fresh colored
whatever the colo. may be, the claws tender
and short, the nails sharp, the unde
bill soft, and the comb thin and smooth
An old turkey has rough scales Oh
the legs calIosities on the soles o
the feet, and long strong claws; younl
one the reverse of all these marks. WheI
the feathers are on, the old turkey cock ha
long tuft or beard; a young one but
sprouting one, and when they are off, thu
smooth scales on the legs decide the point
beside the difference in sizs of wattles OF tn,
neck and in the elastic shoot upon the neck
An old goose when alive is known by thu
rough legs, the strength OF the wings, par
tIcularly at the pinions, the thickness ant
strength OF the bill and fneness OF tn
feathers, and, when plucked, by the legs
the tenderness of the skin under the wings
by the pinions and the bill and the coarse
ness of the skin. Ducks are distinguish,
by the same meals, but there is the differ
ence that the ducklings bill is much lopge
in proportion TO the breadth OF the head thai