Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-11
ABOUT THE HOME.
Hints and Facts of Interest In and On
of Doors.

Hints and Facts of Interest In and Ont
of Doors.
Never Put hot iron directly upon silk
lit takes the lie out Of it.
Conch shells filed with earth make n
pretty receiver for growing plants.
: Pickles or vinegar will not keep il Il jar
that has ever any Kind of grease in it.
/ Sandpaper will whiten iyoTy knife-han-
! dies that may become yellow with use or
| age.
| Cream cures sunburn on some complex
ions, lemon juice is best on Others, and cold
water suits still Others best.
To scour knives easily, mix small
| quantity of baking soda with your brick
! dust, and see if your knives do not polish
better.
To restore rubber rings for fruit Jars, to
two parts of water put one part ammonia
let the hardened rings lie in this mixture
from five minutes to half an hour, as may
he needed TO restore their elasticity.
When one has had a fever and the hair
Is falling OF, take a teacup of sage, steep
IN quart of water, strain il off into a
tight bottle. Sponge the head with the
tea frequently, voting the roots Of the
hair.
\ very little cream of tartar in the
frosting Of cake will hasten the harden
ing process. If the knife is often dipped
into water while spreading the frosting, it
will give gloss Or polish greatly to be de-
sired
To soften paint brushes that have be-
come hard, soak them twentv-four hours in
raw linsecd oil, and rinse them out in hot
turpentine, repeating the process till
| clean, or wash them in hot sod; and water
and soft soap.
Flowers may be kept very fresh over
night if they are excluded entirely from
| the air. To do this, wet them thoroughly,
put in damp box, and cover with wet
raw cotton or wet newspaper; then place
in cool spot.
Beautiful effects may be produced upon
velyets by using liquid dyes for painting
instead of the tube paints commonly en-
ployed. The work is much smoother and
the clustered effect that the oil colors give
is thus avoided Exchange.
Sunhower pen-wipers are both useful
| and ornamental. Make the petals of yell
| low plush Work the edges with button
hole stitch in yellow silk For center, add
brown plush. Place short pieces Of dark
cloth beneath petals for use.
A pretty thing for winter decorations
may be made from the lace-plant, or
Scotch-mist. The dried SPRAYS are dipped
first in water and then in -four. When
| dry it presents the appearance of being
| laden with hoar frost, and is equally pretty
alone or combined with red berries or
Christmas greens.
When flannel has become vellowed by
age, in order to whiten it, dissolve pound
| and :; half of soap in six gallons of water,
and add to it one tablespoonful OF spirits
water, stir it rapidly around for short
time, and rinse it up and down, then take
it ont and rinse it in pure water.
Lettuce, SAYS the Lancet is a neglected
| vegetable, although it constitutes pronli-
nent ingredient in every good salad. At
one time the lettuce WAS supposed to pos
sess soporific properties, but Of late years
| it has, perhaps too hastily, been disestab-
| lished as drug in the repertorv of the
therapeutist. Some are now strongly in
sisting that lettuce should lie used more
generally as food, and suggesting that the
leaves ought to be boiled after which
treatment they are said to be as palatable
as spinach. If this be the fact it is worth
knowing, as spinach is necessarily excluded
from the diet Of the oxaluric patient, and
it is precisely in this class of eases the
soothing properties of the lettuce, if it has
| any, would be valuable
Arrow-root pudding frozen makes a
tempting dish for dessert To one quart
of milk allow one tablespoonful Of arrow
root, and the well-bcaten volks of six eggs;
sweeten to your taste flavor with wine CT
with vanilla. Put it into mold and
| freeze. If you wish to take the trouble it
is pretty addition to the good looks of
the pudding to make q frosting Of the
whites of the eggs and after turning the
pudding out of the mold on PLATTER put
the frosting all over it. If of an econom-
zeal turn of mind the yolis of the eggs
may be used for cake The milk should
he boiled before putting the arrow-root
into it, and that should be rubbed smooth
in little cold milk. Fewer eggs may be
! used if it is thought desirable, and more
arrowroot will be needed