The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-27

tyst these In different qualities for different
| grades OF dishes. Another point is never to
allow the dishes to be cleaned with soap that Is
sticky and has strong odor. It'll not fit to
use In dish water. Home made soft soap and
the old fashioned yellow soap with its smell
Of cleanliness are after all the best.
HINTS FOR THE HOME.
Pretty cstch.ails are made of paper fans,
with the rivet which holds the sticks with
drawn and cord substituted. The fan is
drawn together, and one stick Tapped upon the
other and fastened. thus making o cone-shaped
receptacle. A cornucopia of paper is fitted
into this, and ribbon passed in and out between
the sticks forms bows in front. A ribbon loop
10 attached by which to suspend the catchall.
An inexpensive bat neat table cover for
living room made by taking square OF Gre
tonne for the centre; choose another cretonne
with small figures and of not too bright colors;
for a border put band OF linen, dark drab,
about it; fringe this ont, making deep fringe;
where the linen joins the cretonne cover the
seam with narrow, fine alpaca braid, sewsd
on with cross or feather stitch in gold colored
silk; put q row Of the stitching over the corner
seams also. This In an easy cover to keep
clean, as the dust will shake from it very
readily.
The apple is one OF the best and most health
full OF fruits, and should be eaten even more
than 1t Is. Baked or stswsd apples will gener-
ally agrees with the most delicate stomach, and
are an excellent medicine in many cases of
sickness. Green or half-ripe apples stewed
and sweetened are pleasant to the taste, nour-
ishing, cooling and laxative, far superior in
many Cases to the sbominable doses Of salts
and oil usually given. Raw ripe apples and
stewcd dried apples are better for constipation
than all the blue pills in the world. Nature
furnishes rs her own medicines if we are sem
sible enough to use them.
A good way to remove dust from carpet is
TO fasten damp cloth over the broom with
this the dust may be literally taken up. This
will be found q good way to clean the carpet in
. sick room, and also in any room where there
are many small articles to catch the dust 1t
brishtsns carpet to sweep 1t often in this
way, even after tho usual sweeping has been
done.
To make succotash that will taste nearly
ii not quite as fresh as that made in summer,
soak one pint Of dried corn In sweet milk all
night. Soak an equal quantity, or less If you
prefer 1t, OF dried Lima beans for three hours
in lukewarm water. Then let them simmer
for nearly an hour, add salt, pepper. butter
and very little sugar for seasoning. Taste
must decide when 1t 10 palatable.
Magazine covers are now 10 be seen in al
most every hoxse where there are girls who are
clever with their needles. Some OF the pretti-
est and most useful of these covers are made
OF dark crimson velveteen. They are cut in
the shape Of pieoe of paper that will fit either
the Atlantic, Harper, the Century, or what
ever magazine they are to be used for. The
inside ZAP is usually Of satin of some contrast
ing color, and the cover when completed re-
ssmbles one Of the little plush card cases
which have been SO much used these past two
years. These covers may also be made of
brown linen, and when ornamented with bit
OF needlework or word painting and bound
with bright colored ribbon, they are very pretty
indeed: they will also be found very useful, as
they can be used from month to month, and
will keep the magazine. cover from getting
dog scared aud soiled.