McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Sulphur matches placed in flower
pots, the sui phur ends down, have
been found to destroy the worms
which are so fatal to house plants.
A solution OF six grains of chloride
OF tin and six grains of sulphate OF
copper dissolved in one quart Of water
will be useful in plating small articles
with brass.
For square hall or dining room
in country house a dado of colored
mating is very effective. 1t should be
surmounted by shelf, on which may
be arrayed any ceramic treasures in
the way of plates, cups, vases and the
like.
To cause grlddle cakes to brown
nicely, add little molasses or coffee
to the batter; and to bake them with
out that binding smoke use a soap
stone griddle, and simply rub it over
with damp cloth each time before
putting on cakes.
Polish salad is very easily made.
Cut in very small pieces any sort of
baked or roast meat (veal, mutton or
beef, add soft-boiled eggs and finely
minced onion, lettuce or endive. Mix
all thoroughly with dressing of oil,
vinegar, mustard and pepper, and
serve.
A charming panel for a square
screen is made OF plush of 'old red"
color, with conventionalized peoples
in silk embroidery. The deep red and
the brilliant flame color of the flow
ers, and the cool green of the foliage,
are very effective upon the soft back
ground.
A very good sugar cake may be
made by this recipe: One cupful of
sugar and a tablespoonful of butter,
mixed together; two cupfuls of flour,
two table spoonfuls of baking powder,
one cupful of milk, a little salt and
one well-beaten egg. Flavor with
nutmeg or lemon, and bake in a loaf.
Try this recipe for cooking cabbage:
Boil the cabbage gently until cooked,
and drain 1t. Put two ounces of but
ter into saucepan; set it on a good
fire and, when melted, put in the cab
bage with some salt and pepper. Add
half pint of cream or milk and one
VI lIOuI,
ly with a wooden spoon. Simmer I'M
til the sauce is reduced. and serve hot.
Don't put elaborate brass CRATES in
your rooms Unless you intend to use
them. A snowy brass CRATE unstained
by smoke or ashes suggests in all it's
glittering Hewness a showroom and
not nome. A hre place not conse-
Grated to a fire, that has neither
warmth ror suggestion of warmth, is
a dreadful sham; il is not artistic; it
is not decorative; it kills rather tina N
gives pleasure.
Cold meat may be used to advantage
in the following way: Rub half pound
If beef-drippilg into one-half pound of
flour, with little salt. Moisten the
paste with the water and roll it out
half an inch thick. Mince any kind of
cold meat, season it and add a few
spoonsful of gravy. Spread the
minced meat on the paste and roll it
up. Tie it up in a cloth buttered and
Toured and boil for an hour and half.
To clean and freshen old mating rub
it with cloth wet in salt water. being
careful not to allow any drops of wa
ter to dry in the mating, as they will
leave spots difficult to remove. Heavy
vanished furniture should never rest
directly upon the mating, for even
good varnish, becoming soft in warm
weather, will stain the straw. Mat
ting may be turned if the loose ends
of the cords are threaded in a large
needle and drawn through to the other
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Don't hang upon your walls huge
black engrav1ngs set in vast spaces of
white margin. Pictures of this sort
are very depressing. Instead of white
margins substitute Il gray paper. and
if you must have black prints select
those that have good deal of gray in
them-pictures with tone and mellow
effects Etchings commonly have more
softness and artistic effect than en-
cravings. Don't hang chromos on your
wall, or colored prints; don't display
long lines of family photographs; don't
hang MOSES or colored leaves or dried
grasses about.
You can iron a table cloth so as to
have good center piece to put your
flower pot CT glass of cut flowers on.
Fold the cloth, whether square or cb-
long, in four, so that the center shall
be in the doubled corner at your left
hand. Begin at this corner and turn
over about an inch, creasing 1t sharply
and pressing the iron firmly down on
it. Then move this fold forward
on the cloth and crease another half
inch, not doubling under the part al
ready ironed, but making fresh
crease. So proceed until you have as
large center-square as you wish
You can vary the distance given
to accommodate the thickness of your
cloth.
An excellent rice pudding is made by
this recipe: Wash four ounces of rice
in cold water and set it on the fire with
a pint of milk and the rind of half a
lemon. When nearly done, if the milk
be absorbed by the rice, add little
more, SO that the rice may be nearly
covered with it. When done, remove
it from the fire and mix with it two
tablespo 'nfuls of sugar, two ounces
Of butter, two tablespoonfuls of
milk, three yolks of eggs, 3 pinch of
salt, and. if liked a very little nutmeg.
Put back on the fire for min
ute, stirring constantly. Butter mold