Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-14
Useful Information.

Useful Information.
a SHORT ESSAY ON WASHING.-Ex
perienced housekeepers very seldom give
clear and positive instructions in house
work. Their success seems to be the re-
suit of some uncommunicable krack. Years
OF experiment and uncertainty appear to
be required in reaching positive knowledge
in regard to housework, and that knowl-
edge which must die with the discoverer
Who so desires to escape all uncertainty in
one important department of housework
is recommended to read the following COM
| plete guide to the whole art of washing
TO begin with, clothes should not be soaked
over night; it gives them gray look, and
the solled parts lying against the clean
portions streaks them. Before be-
ginning to wash, the clothes should be
assorted, and the fine ones kept separate
all through the washing. Rub the clothes
in warm-not hot-water. Hot water sets,
instead of extracting, the dirt. Turn them
and rub them till perfectly clean in the
first water. If the water becomes much
soiled throw it out and take fresh, for if
the water is allowed to become very much
soiled, the clothes will be dingy. The
oughly in the second as in the first water.
make clothes white which have not been
thoroughly rubbed out. After the second
rubbing, put the clothes in cold water
to boil, without rubbing soap on
them or putting soap in the water :;
they are soapy enough. Too much
soap makes clothes yellow and stiff As
soon as they begin to boil, remove them to
the g sudsing water. If they boil long,
they will be yellow. Let each article be
well ''soused up and down in the suds.
ing water, rubbing them out thoroughly
with the hands, to get the suds out wiring
dry and throw in the rinslng- water"
which is the last water Let this be
slightly blued Excessive bluing is the
careless washerwomans refuge The rims
ing is to be as thorough as the sudsing.
After rinsing, starch. The old-fashioned
idea, that clothes require to be dried be-
fore being starched, is not sustained by
intelligent observation. Dip the article
into boiling hot starch, plunging the hands
constantly into cold water, to prevent their
beingscalded, and rubbing thes starch well in.
Hang out, and be sure to stretch every inch
possible to the sun and wind. Garments
hung double, or in lunches or festoons, will
not bleach. Wash fannels in lukewarm
water, and rinse in water of the same tenn
perature. Avoid rubbing soap upon the
f1annels. Stretch them when thoroughly
them up immediately-by the fire if the
weather is bad. Two waters are enough
for flannels. When sprinkling clothes, dip
collars, cuffs and shirt bosoms in cold
starch, made so thin as to look like water
with little milk in it. Clothes starched
so need no wax, lard or other preparation
to make them iron easily. A smooth,
dead white is generally more highly es-
teemed now than the glazed look which
shirt manufacturers give to their linen.
Clothes washed by the above directionss
will be white as the driven snow Mary
Dean, in Scribner
ALL WOOL DRESS goods or colored fan
nels should be washed out quickly in tepid
water, rinsed In water of the same tenn
perature, wrung dry, and then folded up
for time, together with one or two sheets,
SO that the moisture shall be contracted by
the cotton or linen they should then be
ironed till dry, A patent wringer (made
of India rubber rollers, which can be adj
justed) is almost indispensable in washing.
Itdoesnot wear the clothes like the twisting
and wrenching of handwriting, and saves
the most exhausting part of the wash, be-
sides leaving the clothes drier than can be
Salt or beef's gall in the water helps to set
black. A tablespoonful of spirits of tur-
pentine to gallon of water sets most
blues, and alum is very efficacious in set
ting green. Black or very dark calicoes
should be stiffened with gum arabic-fye
cents worth is enough for dress If,
however, starch is used, the garment should
be turned wrong side out.
MUTTON. best mutton is of fine
grain, a bright color, and the fat firm and
white. Dark-colored flesh is proof of
age, and the older it is the better. The
moment the animal ceases to breathe the
entrails should be taken out and the skin
removed. This prevents the unpleasant
flavor that is often found in improperly
dressed mutton. The longer mutton is
hung before being cooked, provided it does
not become tainted, the better 1t Is. If a
saddle or haunch of mutton is washed
with vinegar every day, and dried thor
oughly after each washing, it will keep a
good while. In warm weather pepper and
ground ginger rubbed over it will keep off
flies. The best roasts or baking pieces are
the legs, the shoulder and the saddle.
They are baked according to directions
given for other baked meats. Currant
Jelly is served with mutton, and tomatoes
in various styles. rs ....
SILK HANDKERcHIFs the manufac.
ture of domestic silk 'kerchiefs this season.
special attention has been exercised to pro-
duce attractive effects in combination of
color, which has resulted in creating an
enormous market for silk goods as an ar
ticle of ladies' wear. Every known com
bination of color has been used to an ad-
vantage, and the search for new harmony
| in their arrangement has been exhaustive.
! Plain grounds have been bcrdered with a
variety of designs, some OF which are ex-
tremely loud, while others exhibit the
softest blending of agreeable tints. Every
combination suggests new arrangements of
ideas, and the fancy for spots is given ex-
preston in bars, dashes, dots, squares and
| figures. The stock as presented offer an
endles, variety of goods, and afford buyers
the pleasant opportunity of selecting large
lines of equally attractive articles.
| LEMONS sick headache take tum-
bier two thirds full of finely crushed ice,
the juice of one lemon and one teacupful
of white sugar. This mixture, eaten by
degrees or all at once, will allay the fever
ish thirst and quiet the disturbed qualm-
sh stomach, as it is not sweet enough to
be nauseous. Sliced lemon is very appe-
thing addition to cold roast veal, also to
minced veal on toast. For cough or
tickling in the throat, take the juice of
two lemons, the beaten white of one egg
and enough powdered or fine graduated
sugar to make thin paste. A teaspoonful
of this mixture will allay the irritation and
cure a cough in its early stages.
Recipes.
CALVES BRAINS. Calves brains are
great delicacy and may be thus
prepared Soak them in water till
all the blood is removed, dry them
and then fry in butter. Garnish with
| parslev and serve. Or. after soaking them