The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-20
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Keep one of the paper bags grocer
les come in to put your hand in when
toasting bread before the fire and
save scorching your fingers.
If fruit cans are difficult to open,
press the blade of knife between the
rubber ring and glass to let in little
air, then the top comes eff easily.
A little sugar, not enough to taste
distinctly, is a grert improvement in
| baked beans, sweet corn and toma-
toes. In any kind of fruit pies add a
| sprinkle of salt before putting on the
| upper crust.
The very best way to warm over
cold boiled potatoes is to chop them
fine, season with pepper and salt, put
| a lump of butter in skillet, add the
potatoes and very little water; cover
closely and let them heat through
thoroughly without stirring. Hash is
also much better not stirred while be-
ing cooked.
A lady writes to The Rawal NeU
| Yorker that she gave her lace curtains
very fashionable creamy tint, by
rinsing them, after washing in water
in which little yellow ochre powder
| Just mixed with little water and
strained through a muslin bag, had beers
stirred. Add the dye until the desired
shade is obtained. DO not wrlng, but
press the water out with the hands.
Every cook knows how disagreeable
it is to have the nutmeg or cinnamon
which is added to cream and sugar for
pudding sauce rise to the top of the
| opJ Yrbo,, If ic cnrroJ tD !,
the first spoonful taken out too highly
To remedy this mix the nutmeg or
cinnamon with sugar before pouring
on the cream: it will then be grad
ually distributed through the sauce.
Pour the cream on a little at a time,
and the spice will tend to dissolve.
| In the bring up of children an en-
couraging word has in it great deal
more of power than most people inn
agine. So thinks the Rev DR.. Guy
Ter. who says IN the New York Evan
gelist: zone sentence of honest praise
bestowed at the right time is worth q
whole volley of scolding. The sun
| understands how to raise plants and to
open flowers at this time of the year
he Just smiles ON them with warm
rays. and they begin to grow and un-
fold A storm 81 scolding that sets in
in the morning, and lasts till night,
has about as good effect on childhood
graces as hallstorm has on young
plants.
A pretty way of displaying photo
graphs is to put them into fan screen.
Take a large palm leaf fan, cover it
with any snowy material you choose.
Put the cover on one side lay it on in
two or three straight or diagonal folds.
Secure it firmly at the edges and bind
with gold colored silk braid or any
snowy ribbon. If you are skillful in
putting on the binding you can leave
spaces large enough to hold the new
postage stamp photographs" around
the edges of the fan, and the folds are
used to insert carte de visites or the
cabinet size. The fan may lie upon
the table or stand on a shelf. The
postage stamps are so-called because
they are no larger than letter stamp.
These are usually taken in medallion
or profile, which increases the resem.
blance to Queen Victoria's head Oh
the mauve colored English stamps.
To make rice and apricot pudding
steam one scant cup Of rice in two
cups of boiling water, in the double
boiler, thirty minutes. Add, while
hot, one tablespoonful of butter, one
scant teaspoonful of salt one beater
egg and half cup of sugar. Cool
five minutes. Butter PLAIN pudding
: mold, sprinkle it with bread crumb
5 or line with macaroons. Put in
! layer of rice half an inci thick, thel
! q layer of apricots, then rice, fruits
| &C., till the mold is full, having
: crumbs on top. Bake twenty minute
in moderate oven. Turn out on :
l platter and serve with boiled custart
, Favored with vanilla5o or with aprico
3 sauce. This sauce should be made o
one cup of apricot juice, one-half cul
of sugar. one teaspoonful of corr
8 starch or flour; boil all together tiv,
5 minutes and strain. Use any kind 0
: fruil juice or syrup in the same man
, ner.
A simple, inexpensive method o
: clearing the sink pipe. when stoppe'
: up with grease, is rs follows: Jus
: before retiring at Il, t,ht, pour into tn
: pipe enough liquid potash I've of thir
9 ty-six degrees strength to fill the trap
! as it is called, or bent portion of th
: pipe just below the outlet. About
= pint will suffice for washstand, or
), quart for bathtub or kitchen sink
:. Be sure that no water runs into it til
= next morning. During the night tn
;; lye will convert all of the offal in tn
= pipe into soft soap. and the first cur
: rent of water in tho morning will re
: move it entirely and leave the pipe a
clean as new. The so-called potas
= I've sold in small tin cans in the shop
: is not recommended for this purpose
70 it is quite commonly misnamed and
called caustic soda, which makes
;, hard soap. The lye should be kept i
- heavy glass bottles or demijohns, Gov
=, cred with wicker work, and plainl
: labeled; always under lock when nc
! in actual use. Ii does not act upo
, metals, and SO does not corrode th
= pipes as do strong acids.
n The question Of hanging picture
l. effectively is one that often arises in
!. family; a few simple directions upo
n the subject may have a value. Ste,
l. engravings and water colors can no
n like oil paintings, be framed with th
al frame close to the picture, and a spac
,r of white paper intervening makes a
in ugly spot on the wall; and this can t
avoided by having the picture noun
ed first in a passe partout with m;
of gray or some neutral tint, and the
as placed in frame. To see them wit
g anything like comfort or attentio
n they should be disposed in one ro
ID only. and that opposite the eye or I
a an average five foot six inches fro
I'd the floor to the center of the canva
A row thus formed will form sort
lg colored zone around the room, ar