Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-08-13
HOUSE AND FARM.
Housewives Scraps.

llOOOE AMI Is AIM.
Housewives Scraps.
The lustre Of morocco leather Is re-
stored by vanishing with white Of egg.
Old wall paper may be very much inn
proved BY simply rubbing it we'll with fan
cloth dipped in oatmeal.
The best buster with which to clean
carved furniture is new paint brush; YOU
can remove absolutely all the dust with it.
Try it.
An economical housewife will always buy
her soap in large quantities, out each bar
in square pieces and store in dry place,
1t lasts better after shrinking.
Mix little carbonate Of soda in the wa.
ter in which flowers are immersed, and il
will preserve them for fortnight. Com
mon saltpetre is also very good preserva-
tive.
The yellow stain made by the oil on
sewing machines can be removed if. be-
fore washing in soapsuds, the spots be
rubbed carefully with bit Of cloth wet
with amonia
Flies are said soon to disappear from
room containing plate Of the following
mixture: Half teaspoonful of black
pepper in powder, one of brown sugar and
one Of cream mixed together.
Simple and tasteful table-covers for bed.
rooms may be made of pale blue canton
flannel trimmed with antique lace, or with
velvet ribbon feather-stitched on, and
finished with fringe made of blue split
zephyr or Shetland wool.
Take one ounce of spermaceti, and one
ounce of white wax, melt and run into
thin cake on plate. A piece the size Of a
quarter dollar added to quart of prepared
starch gives beautiful lustre to the clothes
and prevents the iron sticking.
Stove lustre, when mixed with turpen-
tine and applied in the usual manner, 10
blacker and more glossy than when mike d
with any other liquid. and the turpentin .
also prevents rust. If stoves are rubbed
with kerosene when put away in the spring
they will not rust.
An ingenious mother, who has long been
bothered by the fastidiousness Of her chill
dren at table, has at last discovered Wav
of circumventing them. She places what
she wants each child to eat before ito
neighbor at table, and of course each cries
for what the other has, and the ends Of
justice are promoted.
The poets, the truly great poets, have Q
mighty influence on the lives Of even the
humber classes. Shakespeare, for instance,
touches all grades of experience and light
ems the labors of mental servitude. Where
can you find better receipt, in nobler
language, for the proper preparation of q
beefsteak than he gives in the immortal
words.
# when 'twere done, 'twere well done,
Then 'twere well it were done quickly.
A mothers Loaf of bread, the work Of
careful and sympathetic hands. is far
better than any to be purchased at the bak-
er's. Real family cooking is also individual
thus prepared; some peculiar favor be i'm
parted to it by the maker. All people Of
sensitive tastes can testify to that certain
monotony of flavor which at last prevades
the best hotel or boarding house cookery.
It is there matter of necessity that me-
chanical routin in the preparation Of food
must be maintained.
. One of the wealthy ladies who occupies
cottage at one of the Eastern watering
places had box made for her jewelry in inn
itation of a Bible. While absent one day
some one entered her house and carried of
her silverware, but her box of jewelr3 was
undisturbed. Even robber won't steal
Bible.
A Berlin millinery establishment has
come to grief in queer way. The proprie-
tor SO Id to the nearest grocer his old order
books, oblivious of the various notes on
customers tn ey contained, such as "Coun-
tess, exacting, stingy, but good buyer;
Countess NJ, dress to be we'll padded in
front; Baroness L., care must be taken to
show off her arm, which she Piques her
self on" &c. Somebody got hold Of these
and made mischief.