The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-07-22
USEFUL HINTS.

DRIVE two large nails through two
spools, as far apart as your broom handle
Is thick, and hang your broom on, brush
up, to keep it straight.
WOODWORK strongly impregnated with
tungstate of soda or silicate of soda-by
treatment IN strong aqueous solution of
these salts-will be tound to be quite
uninfiammable.
A LUMP OF bread about the size of n
billiard ball, tied up in linen bag aud
placed III the pot i'll which green's are
boiling, will absorb the gases which
oftentimes send such an unpleasant odor
to the regions above.
WHEN water has once been made to
boil the fire may be very mush lessencd.
as but little heat is required To keep it ut
boiling point. There is no advantage
whatever III making water boil furiously:
the heat will escape in steam, without
raising the heat of the water.
Do NOT put carpets in your closets !:
oil-cloth or mating is much better, and
can be easily kept free from dust. Mat
ting, after being swept, should be wiped
with damp cloth. Hot salt and water
will thoroughly cleanse it and will not
dlscolor 1T If one could afford to do it,
1T would be healthful plan to lay aside
the carpets OF sieeping-rooms during the
summer, and substitute the cool, fresh
mattings.
The most economical and easiest way
OF making coffee is by tiltering. The
French coffee biggin is valuable for this.
Ii consists of two cylindrical tin vessels.
one fitting into the other and the bottom
OF the upper being fine strainer An
other coarse strainer, with rod run
nlng from the center, is placed upon
this. Then the coffee, which is finely
ground, is put In and another strainer is
placed at the top of tho rod. The boil
ing water is poured on and the pot set
where 1T will keep hot, but not boil, un-
tn the water has gone through. This
will make clear, strong coffee, with
rich, smooth flavor. The advantage of
the two extra strainers is that the one
coming next to the fine strainer prevents
the grounds from filling up the fine
holes, and SO the coffee is clear aud
more easily made. When milk or cream
is added to filtered coffee it does not
turn rich yellow as in the case of that
boiled with an egg. Filtered coffee is
very niOC III QTiIlk, duu
when taken without milk and sugar is
said TO aid digestion.
FATTY oils have greater surface ten
sion than oil of turpentine, benzole or
ether. Hence, If n grease spot ON piece
of cloth be moistened on the reverse
side with one of these solvents, the ten
sion on the greasy side Is larger, and,
therefore, the mixture of benzole, or fat
or grease will tend to move toward the
main grease spot. If we were to moisten
the center of this spot with benzole, we
should not remove it, but drive the
grease upon the clean portion of the
cloth. 1t lis, therefore, necessary to dis
tribute the benzole first over a circle
surrounding the grease spot, to APP
proach the latter, gradually, at the
same time having blotting paper in con-
tact with the spot to absorb the fat i'm
mediately. Another method-namely,
to apply hot iron one side, while the
blotting paper is applied to the other
depends upon the fact that the surface
tension of a substance diminishes with
rise of temperature. If, therefore, the
temperature at different portions or sides
of the cloth is different, the fat acquires
a tendency to move from the hotter parts
toward the cooler a.