Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-06-25
HOME MATTERS.

TIE BEST BUSTER With which to clean carved
furniture is a new paint brush; you can re-
move absolutely all the dust with it. Try it.
ALWAYS STAND A WET UMBRELLA with the
handle down; one trial will convince you OF
the rapidity With which it Will ain, aud your
umbrella VIII last longer II dried quickly.
To PRESERVE THE COLOR OF black thread
stockings, wash them In water with bran, no
soap, the bran TO be tied up Ia muslin bag.
The stockings viii then preserve their black
dye. AeTino stockings can De washed the
same way.
CEMENT FOR RUBBsR.-Powdered shellac Is
softened IN ten times its weight of strong
water OF ammonia, which becomes fluid after
keeping some little time without the Use of
hot water. In three or four weeks the mixture
1s perfectly liquid. When applied 1t softens
the rubber. which hardens again as the am
monia evaporates.
DRYING CHERRIEs.-Cherries INTENDED to be
dried must be first stoned, spread on fat dishes
and dry them In the sun or warm oven; pour
whatever Juice may run from them over them.
q little at time; stir them about that they
may dry evenly. When perfectly dry line
boxes or jars with white paper and pack close
In layers; strew little brown sugar and fold
the top OF the paper over them and keep In a
dry sweet place.-GernCantODn Telegraph.
GLOSS FOR SEARCHED CLoTHEs.-An expert
enced washerwoman gives the following: Two
or. best white starch, mix with half pint of
cold water; half teaspoonful Of powdered DO.
rax. and one teaspoonful of turpenttne. mix ia
quarter Of pint OF boiling water; add this TO
the starch already mixed, and starch the things
In IL wet, just as they are wrung out OF the
blue water. Lay them out smoothly on clean
cloth, place another cloth over them, and roll
them up for two hours, then iron with thor
oughly hot irons,
To CHECK NOTES.-The ladies who like to see
slower borders near their doors are this year
very much annoyed by the excavations OF
moles. A correspondent. who has tested the
plan this spring and found 1t efficaciouS sug-
gests very easy mode of aoating the nuisance.
He takes salt mackerel, the older the better
and cuts 1t In inch bits. These he pushes down
into the mole tracks and at short intervals
through the border, neatly covering them over.
The mole hates mackerel worse than q fisher OF
Fortune Bay hates an American fisherman and
Instantly yacateS the spot
FLOWERS IN GRAss.-The Garden gives an
engraving and description Of cheap way TO
obtain flowers for landscape effect, by placing
groups of red pBonies In grass. They grow,
take care of themselves, and make brilliant
display In their season, seen some distance
from tae dssg Some Of the white and
treated In this way, as well as other of the
more snowy pefenntalS. The meadow lily u
earsadelise) will hold Its own in any grass
ground, and when done blooming the plant
does not dishgure the ground. In late sum-
mer, AScleptGs tUberOSd makes fine show
seen at distance In grass
A SMILE CURB.-Salt air is apt to strike out,
for some people at this season, styes and boils
and other beauty spots. A simple and agree
able remedy is found among other salts. Put
Of EPSON salts about as much as makes an Or
binary dose In tumOler OF water, cut a large
piece OF the crumb OF bread and soak it In the
salts. Bind it upon the place affected when
thoroughly moist. This Is a cooling applca-
ton, and seems not only to be very grateful 10
the infiamed skin, but to expedite the progress
OF these usually slow and tedious affairs. 1t is
said to prevent the habit OF having such
troubles. 1t certainly softens the hard skin,
and relieves the congestion In this way.
To MAKE YOUR OWN BAKING FowDER-Put
half pound OF ground rice into bowl, with q
quarter OF pound of carbonate Of soda; MIX
well together and then add three ounces of pure
tartaric acid Both soda and acid must be freed
knife or spoon on piece OF paper. When the
rice, soda and acid are we'll mixed, Sift the mix
ture through wire sieve or a fine gravy
strainer, and put it In tin; two small tins are
best, as one can be kept shut up and free from
air, while the other tin Is In use. All baking
powders being composed Of Ingredients that
enerveSce when In contact with moisture Of
any kind, the tins should have q fitting
lid, and the kitchen cupboard1S the drieSt place
TO keep them In. Use one teaspoonful to eacA
pound OF flour. This recipe has been used with
great success Salt In baking powder which
some houSekeeper5 use is not added. because
salt lmo1Des moisture from the air. and would
cause dampneSS 10 the soda and acId.-An Eng
ash Receipt.
dow commands lovely view, let 1t, If possible,
be formed of but few sheets, III not very large
Of one sheep, OF plate glass; for the works OF
God are more worthy of contemplation, with
their ever-changing beauty, than the works Of
man; out II the window commands only mass
or brick and mortar lnartistically arranged; let
IL, IL possible, be formed Of colored glass, h3v-
Ing beauty OF design manifested by the ar
rangement OF It's parts. A window should
never appear as picture, With parts treated
In light and shade. The foreshorte-ing OF the
parts, and all perspective treatments, are best
avoided. DO not say that the human figure
nneated upon window glass. for. on the con.
uaTy. they may be so treated as not only TO be
Beautiful, but also to be a consistent decora-
s sTor OF al gas; Dus this % say, that many
me window being treated as picture, and not
as protection from the weather and as a
source Of ught-Iptterg Gazette,
MALARIA FROM KITCHEN SINKs.-Let me ask
do you keep a proper watch over your slnks?
Did you ever notice how the girl washes her
dishes? Or while she has clean water In the
pan, DO you see that she has Scraped half the
waste from the plates right into the sink,
where 1t remains until her dishes are washed
and put away9 "Well. what great harm Is
there In that? Not very tidy to be sure, but
what cause for malaria does Mrs. Beecher see
In il9, Simply this: The waste, or In plain
English, the swill thrown Into the sink and
brushed one side out OF the way OF the dish
pan, as the dish-water and suds are con-
stantly dashing over It, gradually finds its
way into the pipes which carry OH the dish
water. These pipes under the sink have
usually q bend-or what is called by the
plumbers q goose neck"-half way down from
The sink TO the floor. Water without sedt-
ment or substance easily flows down through
this bend without any hindrance, and IL hot
cleanses the pipes. But the small greasy par
Llcles from the solid matter thrown into the
sink stick by the way, and grease and sedi-
ment accumulate until the pipes are e1ec-
tually blocked up, or so nearly so that the
water Is carried OF very slowly. These par
ticles at first seem perfectly harmless, bat the
hourly deposits have rendered them formi-
datla Remember what they are composed
of-meats, yegetaDle5, coffee and tea dreg5
milE-and then imagine, II you can, what they
Will be after some days or weeks accumula-
toIs. When at last the plumber must be
Called In 70 open free passage for the dish
water, II The mistress of the house stood by
she would wonder that the terrible stencil
which rises on opening the passage had not
caused sickness and death not only In her own
family, but throughout the whole neighb1 Dr.
hood. And IL Is from such small beginnings,
such careleSsneSS, unnoticed by many house.
keepers until brought TO the light of day,
when compelled 10 have pipes cleared out or
the drains opened, that our homes become the
hotDeds for propagating disease which ind:
every facility for becoming malignant enough
10 depopulate a whole neighborhood.-Nrs
". III. BeecleT tn Christian Union.
MAKING FRINGA-''Needlemaker, who's:
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