The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-09
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Never let tea boil.

Never let tea boil.
For rough hands. uss lemon juice.
Strong .ye cleans tainted pork bar
rels.
Tepid milk and water clean oilcioth
without soap.
Have az much fruit on band as you
can afford.
Turpentine applied to a ont is a
preventive OF lockjaW.
A hot shovel held over furniture
removes white spots.
Smoke dried mullen leaves in a
new clay pipe for bronchitis.
Sprinkle sasssfrss bark among
dried fruit to keep out worms.
Pop corn is a good lunch for Sum
day nights filth milk for drink.
A handful of hay in a pailiul OF
water neutrslizes smell Of paint.
To make q carpet look fresh, wipe
with damp cloth after sweeping.
In SO wing and winding carpet rags
double them with the right side out.
Clean tea or coffee cups with scour
ing brick; makes them look good as
new.
Remove ink stains on silk, wooden
or cotton by sRtursting with spirits OF
turpentine.
Cover plants with newspapers ber
fore sweeping. AIso put little am
monia upon them once q week.
Washing pine floor in solution oil
one pound oil copperas dissolved in
one gallon of strong lye gives OAK
o1lor
Remove flower pot stains from
window stills By rubbing With fine
wood ashes and riase with clean
water.
4 paste of equal parts OF aifted
aches, clay and salt and little water
oements cracks in stoves and ovens.
Mixture OF two parts of glycerine
one part ammonia and little rose
water whitene and soitens the hands.
Corn husks braided make a service
able and handsome mat. The braidl
to be sewed with sack needle anr
tWine.
In teaching child to sew, five
stitches q day will be enough for the
first few weeks, but les them be per-
feet and true.
To cure hoarseness-bake lemon
or sour orange for twenty minutes ir
a moderate oven, open at one end
dig out and eat sWeetened.
y Cabbage is made digestRble by frst
sIicing and then putting in boiling
water with q pinch OF coda and some
salt and boiling just fifteen minutes.
A porcelain lined kettle that vii
no longer serve for fruit, is just the
thing for corn loaf. a three or foul
quart fruit-can answers well the same
purpose.
A cheap support for vines before 6
window in a prairie country is 9
branch of tree. Dig q post hole
short distance from the house anC
set your branch. Train your vines
into this.
It was Diogenes who boxed thu
ears of the preceptor OF child who
ate with extreme rapidly. Would
there was Diogenes in these days tt
box not only preceptors and child
ren's ears for the offence, but especially
the ears OF people who dine table
d'hote.
A new pudding has been intro
duoed by Pinard called Cornelius,
but whether in honor Of the son of q
millionaire or the Biblical character
is not known. It is made of all sort
OF dried fruits, spices and brandy, enC
comes on the table like an old fash
Toned apple dumpling.
That bread and butter was not
highly esteemed diet In the olden
times may be inferred from "They
that have no other meat, bread-and
butter are glad to eat" the wit snd
wisdom of which remark may be
supplemented with the well-knowr
saying of the princess of France who
held that when they could not gel
bread, people should make shift
with cake.
When Mr.. Cough was dining at 6
Boston hotel q few days ago he was
inexpressibly disguised TO see 'tipsy
cake" enumerated On the bill OF fare
under desert head.
It would be interesting to know
with what the alleged 'jelly rolls
served at come hotels and restaurants
are filed. The taste Of them Is guar
snteed q lifetime.