St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-20
DOMESTIC HINTS.


Minced Olives are relished by many, and
are considered decletable addition to salads
of any kind.
The wash-boiler should always be carefully
dried, and if their is the least tendency to
rust rub the inside with little lard.
If the stairrods are dingy, their appearance
may be improved by washing them with
sweet milk; polish them with flannel cloth.
Rice dissolved in water and finished as
white soups excellent for a kind of astrin-
gent diet Custard, seasoned with a little
butter and salt. Savory herbs are often ac-
ceptable.
Tea-cups are now made to represent roses,
petals, and all very natural, and the accom-
paning saucers initiate the leaves Teapot,
sugar-bowl and pitchers are carried out in
the same style
Bread, biscuit, rolls, and the crust of pies
are all greatly improved in flavor and color
if the are lightly brushed over with milk just
before they are pat nit6 the oven. A little
sugar dissolved in the milk is an addition
also.
An ordinary pail may be lined with silk or
satin and painted upon the outside with
pretty selection of vines and flowers, and
used as paper receptacle or scrap receiver.
The handle should be replaced by snowy
cord
Kerosene oil will remove spots from old
furniture and clean it better than anything l
have ever tried. Very often on your side
board and mahogany tables you will find
white spots; by rubbing these with kerosene
oil they will all disappear.
To provide endless subject of study for
your children, take one-quart glass fruit
can, get it nearly full of pond water; then
let them observe the forms of life, both of
plants and of insects, which flourish there.
Small magnifying glasses are luxuries that
will be appreciated.
Upon cracked looking glass it is permit
ted to paint a bamboo stalk or crooked
pear or apple branch, covered with blossoms,
so as to hide the unsightly crack aud retain
the glass for use. Upon a perfect glass
flower painting is not considered artistic,
but the blossoms and birds are to be kept
within the frame.
Japanese bottles with long necks are
made into hand-screens by ingenious girls,
and the manner in which it is done is by
placing in the necks of each bottle an open
fan. The bottle and neck and handle may
be covered with silk, thus concealing the
joining point. The screen may placed be-
meath a lamp to shield the eyes from the
light.
Excellent soft gingerbread is made of one
cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of
sour cream, one cup of New Orleans molas-
ses, four cups of sifted flour, one tablespoon
full of soda dissolved in little hot water, one
tablespoonful of ginger, three well-beaten
eggs, the rind grated of one lemon. Raisin
may be added, if you please.
To use pieces of cold boiled ham that are
too small for the table, chop them fine, line
salad dish with lettuce leaves, season the
chopped ham with pepper a little mustard,
and then make tomato dressing; take one
pint of tomato juice, strain it, thicken it oy
| adding one tablespoonful Of arrowroot, mix
ed with little of the cold juice; then stir it
into the other andlet it boil for two or three
minutes; add little butter and pepper, and
pour over the ham. Serve hot or cold.
Poultices.-On teacup of fine crumbs of
good, light bread, or Indian meal, or ground
| fiaxseed, or slippery elm, pour enough boil
ing water to work up into a smooth mass
spread it evenly ON thick piece of CLOTH If
you need mustard or pepper poultice just
sprinkle light bread poultice thickly with
mustard or cayenne. If an active counter
| 1rrlIa0I is WdnGGu GHc pOulGlce must nave
pepper or mustard mixed one to two parts of
flour and Stirred with strong vinegar. For
more durable irritation croton oil mixed with
tartar emetc is used as prescribed by your
| doctor.
Suppose that you have some pieces of cold
roast beef that you do not know how to use
to good advantage, also some bits of cold
ham, try this way of disposing of them: Chop
them very fine, removing all gristle or any
thing that is not appetizing, to one cup and a
half of this chopped meat add a teaspoonful
of salt, quarter of small onion, half tea
spoonful of black pepper, a pinch of sage,
and little dried parsley rubbed fine. Beat
one egg, and add to bind the bits together;
add also little soup stock to moisten them
roll in shape of fiat cakes, dip in egg and
very fine cracker or bread crumbs, and fry
in hot lard. Have the lard boiling when the
croquetts are dropped Into it, then they will
keep their shape, as they become crisp on
| the outside at once.
One of the Limitations of Genius.
! Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
Herr Zul1ertot may know all about chess,
but he can't give the plural of Daddy Long
legs.
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