The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-11
NOnle and 9arml.
THE HOUSEHOLD.

Never boil nice white goods. lhey
should be scalded only.
Red cedar chips will keep moths out of
the drawer or trunk.
Green tea will revive rusty black lace
and render it as good as new.
Vinegar will remove the disagreeable
odor of kerosene from tin ware.
To iron embroidery nicely press it
on the wrong side between two tian-
nels.
You may very easily cure stye on
the eyelid with poultice Of ..fresh tea
leaves.
Polish silver with sole leather and
whiting. Never wash silver with soap,
or you. destroy its lustre,
Soap suds should never be thrown
away. 1t is one of the best known fer
tiizers for the garden and also for flow
ers.
Mix little carbinate of soda in
the water with which you sprinkle your
flowers in the winter and the result Will
be good
Hot alum water is the best insect
destroyer known. 1t will destroy ants,
bed bugs, cockroaches and the like IN
short time.
II your silks have become wrinkled
sponge on the surface with a weak solu..
ton of gumarabic or white glue and irolr
on the wrong side.
If YOU dip your broom in clean hot
suds once a week, then shake it till II Is
almost dry, then hang up, it will last
twice as long as it will without this pro-
cess.
Kitchen tables may be made beauti-
fully white by washing them with hard
soap and wood ashes. Floors should be
scrubbed with cold water soap and wood
ashes.
To improve starch: To each bowl OF
starch add one teaspoonful of EPSON salts
and dissolve in the usual way by boiling
Articles starched with this will be stitfer
aud will be rendered In certain de
gree ire-proof.
To wash dishes fill your dish pan with
hot water and add half cup of milk. :
gives the dishes clear bright look and
also preserves the hands fIom rough
skin or chapping which comes from using
soap. Try it.
If YOU wish to have pure water throw
into your cistern one tablespoonful OF
puIverized alum to every hogshead OF
water The water should be stirred at
the same time The alum will pre-
cipitate to the bottom all particles of i'm
purity.
A great deal of the complaint of bad
-four would cease if flour was carefully
kept. Flour, like butter, absorbs smells
rapidly, and should therefore no. be
kept in place where there are onions,
hsh, vegetables, decaying or other odor-
Gus substances, or in a damp or mouldy
room. Keep your flour in a dry, cool,
airy place, and you will find that the
difference will be very great
Grease spots can sometimes be re
moved by using borax and water in the
proportion of one pound of borax to
one gallon of warm water.
1T is said that if teaspoonful of mus
tard Is mixed with water and molasses,
which is usually poured over baked
beans, there Is no danger of the stomach
being distressed after eating them.
Lunch or tea cake made by this recipe
is very good: One cup of sugar, piece
VI pultSI the size OF an tSgs wv W 70 "
milk, two eggs, one quart of flour. two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder and Que
teaspoonful of salt. Bake in good
oven, and eat hot. This cake must be
broken, not cut.
A cake receipt which calls for sour
milk: One cup of sugar, half cup OF
butter, three wellbeaten eggs, an even
teaspoonful OF soda, stirred into half
cup of sour milk; two small cups OF
-four; flavor with lemon; butter small
dripping pan, and pour the mixture into
1t; bake for thirty to thirty-fve minutes;
when done crt it into squares with a
sharp, thin knife. This cake should be
eaten while fresh, and it is very nice.
s'ago sauce to eat with sweet puddings
Is easily m de: wash one tablespoonful
of sago in two or three waters, then put
II into saucepan, with one third of a
pint OF water, the peel of one small
lemon; let this simmer gently for ten
minutes, then take out the lemon peel,