The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-06

To boil potatoes successfully: When
the skin breaks, pour off the water and
let them finish cooking In their own
steam. t
STEEL knives may be saved from rust
ing joy being rubbed with mutton tallow,
wrapped in paper. and put into baize-
lined chest.
CELLARS thoroughly treated with
whitewash made yellow with copperas
will not be considered desirable habita-
tons for rats and mice.
IT is said two parts tallow and one of
resin, melted together and applied to the
soles of new boots or shoes, as much rs
the leather will absorb, will double their
wear.
CHATTING of the hands, which is one
of the most disagreeable inconvenience
of cold weather, can be easily prevented
by rubbing the hands with powdered
starch.
WOODWORK strongly impregnated with
tungstate of soda or silicate of soda-by
treatment in strong aqueous solution OF
these salts-wil be found to be quite
uninflammable.
To brown sugar for sauce or buildings,
put the sugar in a perfectly dry sauce
pan. If the pan is the least bit wet, the
sugar will burn and you will spoil your
saucepan.
HousEKEEPERs will find that zines may
be scourged with great economy of time
and strength by using either glycerine
or creosote mixed with little diluted
sulphuric acid.
GLUE frequently cracks because of the
dryness of the air in rooms warmed by
stoves. An Austrian paper recommends
the addition of little chloride OF calcium
to glue to prevent this.
WHEN washing fine laces do not use
starch at all; in the last water in which
thew are rinsed put little fine white
sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the
result will be pleasing.
BRUSH silk with piece of cotton velvet
rolled up tight For washing, pour a
pint of boiling water on tablespoonful
of alcohol. Let it stand till tepid, and
sponge the goods with it.
SILK neckties can be washed in rain
water, to one pint of which add a tea.
spoonful of white honey and one of
hartshorn. Do not squeeze but let them
drip, and when nearly dry press between
+, folds of cloth.
A CERTAIN cure for felon is to wind q
cloth loosely about the finger, leaving
the end free. Pour in common gun
powder till the afflicted part is entirely
covered. Keep the whole wet with strong
spirits of camphor.
AFTER buttering your cake-tins scatter
little -four over them aud the cake is
absolutely certain not to stick to the tin.
If your oven is likely to bake hard at the
bottom put paper in the bottom OF the
tin. Butter it well first.
NOTHING is better to clean silver with
than alcohol and ammonia; after rubbing
with this take little whitening or soft
cloth and polish in this way; even frosted
silver, which is so difficult to clean, may
be easily made clear and bright.
WHEN water has once been made to
boil, the fire may be very much lessened,
as but little heat is required to keep it ut
boiling point. There is no advantage
whatever in making water boil furiously;
the heat will escape in steam, without
raising the heat of the water.
To fix pencil marks so they will not
rub out, take well skinned milk and
dilute with an equal bulk of water.
Wash the pencil marks whether writing
or drawing) with the liquid, using a soft
flat camel-hair brush, and avoiding all
rubbing. Place it upon q flat board to
dry.