Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-16
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Grated cheese may be sent to the tea
table, heaped in cone shape on n china
plate and will be eaten with unwonted
relish.
Spots of iron rust may be removed al
ways if they are covered with lemon juice
mixed with common salt; lay the garment
where The sunlight will fall on it.
4 very simple and easily prepared polish
is made of two ounces of ammonia, one
quart OF rain water and three ounces OF
precipitated chalk. Keep this in a bottle
and shake well before using.
Ifmoths have made their appearance in
the carpets, vigorous measures must be
taken to prevent their increase. The car
pets should be taken up aired and beaten.
The floors must be thoroughly cleaned, and
after that pour little benzine in any cracks
or openings in the boards where il Is posi-
bic for moth to find refuge.
\ dainty foamine or puff sauce is made
by beating the whites of three eggs TO 4
stiff froth dissolve a teacup of sugar in as
little water as possible TO use, let it boil for
two or three minutes, take it from the
tire and stir into il a small glass of wine
and the whites of the three eggs. This
should be made just before it is needed at
the table
available 10 consume the refuse of the
meal. a simple and efficient means of
quick removal of garbage Is, therefore, al
ways at hand. Itwould greatly tighten the
duties of the Health Officer, it would con-
duCu 90 private comfort and general vel
fare il all the house-holdcrs instead of
throwing kitchen refuse into cutters, alleys,
streets or back yards, there to rot and faint
the air, would burn il.
Wrinkles are very much under personal
control A girl or youth who INDUCES in
a perpetual knitting of the brows produces
a very ugly wrinkle between the eyebrows
but this may be entirely removed by for
saking the trick, A habit of half closing
the eycs-very common with near-sightcd
persons who do not choose TO wear glasses
produces wrinkles AT their outer corners.
An ill-tempered dropping of the corners OF
the mouth brings wrinkles in those posi-
tons.
Few people know how to cook water, "
Charles Dclmonico used 10 affirm. The
secret is in putting good, fresh water into a
neat kettle, already quite warm, and set
ting the water to boiling quickly. and then
taking it right off for use in tea, coffee or
other drinks, before it Is spoiled. To let it
steam and simmer and eyaporate until the
good water Is all III the atmosphere, and
the lime and iron aud dregs only left in the
kettle is what makes great many people
sick, and is worse than no water at all
The Chicago Druggist recommends the
following remedy for severe scalds and
burns: Cover the injured parts freely with
soft soap. If the burns be severe apply
soon after linseed oil, with plentiful dress
ing of flour. This cakes and fresh oil and
-four can be added. When this covering
falls off a new skin will have formed, and
no scar left. The same journal saws carron
: l-..; sne of the best remedies where the
skin is unbroken, care, of course, being
taken to exclude the air from the injured
parts.
Two pretty tides, that can be used to or
nament the back of sofa which is divided
in two parts, can be made as follows For
one, take three pieces of pale blue satin
ribbon, the length Of the sofa cushion, put
lace insertion OF the same width rs the rib
bon between the strips of the ribbon, trim