The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-17
Household Hints,

Table mats made of seine Irvine are exceed
ingly durable. They will wash well, and two
sets of them will last almost lifetime.
Gelatine frosting is made by dissolving a
tablespoonful of geatine in a small half cup of
boiling WATER thicken with sugar and flavor with
lemon.
If the pretty pink ginghams, now so much
worn by children, are dipped in water with
enough vinegar in it to give it a sour taste, the
pink will be brighter than if rinsed in water
alone.
French Pie-Mince cold meat very fine, season
1t, mos ten with gravy and warm in a saucepan.
Turn out upon PIE dish, heapit up. lay mashed
potato around it and upon it, and brown in the
oven.
1t may not be known to some housewives that
if -four is kept in q closet with onions or cabbage
it will absorb unpleasant odors from them. You
may not notice this until the flour is cooked, but
then you will.
The New York Home Journal says that the
words papa and ''mama" have been so appropri-
ated by the would be genteel that they now
anything but fashionable in good society. and
the good old terms Of father and mother are in
fnitely better style.
If the cellar smells musty, sweep and clean it
nicely, and close the windows. Have ready some
burning Goals in an iron dish, throw on them a
handful OF sulphur, hurry out and close the door.
In about two hours the fumes of sulphur will be
disSipated and the musty smell gone
DR.. J. Cooperider, of Taylorsville, Ind, writes
TO the Popular Science News that he has used
the fluid extract Of chestnut leaves for whooping
cough with great success The dose is from fif
teen to sixty drops, according to age, given in
hot water or in simple syrup as an elixir.
Some of the peaches which were canned last
year were almost havorless, and they have not
improved in that respect by keeping. IT, when
you open the can, you find them like this put
them in dish, and after cutting some oranges
in very thin slices. mix them with the peaches,
sprinkle powdered sugar literally over them, and
let them stand for an hour, and you have deli
eious dish.
Where enc cannot have all new. defects and
partly worn places can be nicely covered with
rugs or linen. if you can manage, in remaking
your carpets, to have all tine badly worn places
come in the middle. this can be nicely covered
with either gray linen or q large square of drug
get, or a rug which comes all ready for the pur-
pose. Drugsets cost from $3.50 to $l2, and the
ingram rugs from $40 up.
If you have any muslin dresses that are good,
and still are faded and so unfit to wear it is a
good time to try the experiment of bleaching,
and if of good quality they will do much serv
ice as common white dresses Most of the del
them in strong soap suds and then laying them
on the grass for day or two; others may have
weak ammonia added to the water.
Pillow-shams are used, bnt are not so fashion
able as round bolster without pillows. The
bolster in elegant houses, is covered with up
hostery stuffs like that Of the furniture, else
the spread of silk or satin, brocaded or EN-
broidered, is large enough to cover the bolster.
Canopes are used with curtains like lambre
gums, but the more general fashion is a plain
bed with high head board and low foot.