The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-08-04
HOUSE AND FARM.
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 well witha fan
cloth dipped in oatmeal.
The best duster with which to clean
carved furniture is new paint brush you
can remove absolutely oil the dust with it.
Try it.
An economical housewife will always buy
her soap in large quantities, cut 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 it
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 containinga 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 feathers 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
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, is
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 way
Of circumventing them. She places what
she wants each child to eat before it's
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 a better receipt, in nobler
language, for the proper preparation of a
beefsteak than he gives in the immortal
words.
If when 'twere dole, '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-
ers. Real family cooking is also individual
lied cooking. Something in every dish
thus prepared; some peculiar flavor 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
| a cottage at one of the Eastern watering
places had box made for her jewelry in i'm
t.tioa Of Bible. While absent one day
some one entered her house apd carried off
| her silverware, but her box of jewelry was
undisturbed. Even robber won't steal
| Bible.
A Berlin millinery establishment has
| come to grief in queer way. Tbeproprie-
tor sold to the nearest grocer his old order
books, obllvious of the various notes on
customers th ey contained, such as "Coun-
toss, exacting, stingy, but good buyer;
| Cou ntess NJ, dress to be we'll padded in
front; Baroness L., care must be taken to
show off her arm, which she riques her.
self on" sc. Somebody got hold of these
| and made mischief.
Cooking Meat.
DR.. Leidz of Philadelphia. one of the