Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-06-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Wax flowers can be cleaned by put


ting them under stream of water.
The cut crystal, which has lost rs
yet none of its pestigc, is now set in
silver standards, and has its beauty
heightened thereby.
Cold rain water and soap will take
out machine grease, whore other
means would not he advisable GA nc.
count of colors running, etc.
A lovely design for scent bottle is
of ruby-colored glass, with white cor
ner-cut flowers. Another represents
the head and bill OF II swan in fine sill
yer, the neck of the bird forming the
top of the bottle.
Baking soda gives instant relief TO
burn or scald. Applied either dry or
wet to the burned part Immediately,
the sense of relief is magical. 1t
seems TO withdraw the heat and with
it the pain. Keep it IN tho ironing
room.
Exquisite effects for those OF deco
rative turn OF thought may b. made
10y painting leaves and flowers of India
silk of delicate shades, and surround
ing the flat painted color with an odt-
line double row If stitching OF gold
thread. Charmin@ bed covers are thus
to be made.
Patchwork papcterio appears to be
something new in tho way of fancy
stationery. H. is bcttct paper, each
sheet showing no fewer than one hun
dred patterns of patchwork stitches.
The boxes in which ;hc paper and Gu
velopcs are put up arc SO contrived
that they may be converted into a
picture frame for the mantle piece.
Among the wall decorations which
are now in greater AMI greater de-
mand is the cartridge paper, thicker
material than the ordinary wall paper,
made of n single color. The shades
obtainablc are now used on the walls.
The old dover patterns in wall paper
have also gone out IL 4 pattern Is
used At all 1t is generally conyen-
tional or geometric one of II lighter
or darker shade than the background.
The following way of preparing
clans is recommended: Chop your
clans very fine; add as much bread
soaked in milk as you have chopped
clans; season with pepper aud pars-
ley; mix well and add tho yolk ofono
egg; put small piece of butter in
the frying pan: when hot add one tea
spoonful of flour, stir into this the
clam mixture; brown and add some
tomato sauce. Fill the clam shells,
cover over with iiIe bread crumbs
and serve very hot. Grabs may DO
treated in the Same manner.
A appetzing way of serving oysters
for breakfast is the folloing: Put two
dozen medium sized oysters in a sauce
pan with their own liquid; let them
, come TO a boil; then strain the oysters,
saving the liquid; put about one table,
spoonful Of butter in san cepan and
two of flour; beat and work SMOOTH
add the oyster liquid ana let it boil
about five minutes, stirring all the
time; add Juice of lemon II taste and
the yolk of two eggs we'll beaten. salt,
pepper and chopped parscly, aud then
the oysters; serve on toast.
Sweet soups are very nourishing
dishes, snd good, when we once get
over the idea that a soup must be salt.
For milk soup, three pints ofmilk, the
yolks of two eggs. Il tablcsoohtul Of
fine flour, Il couple of peach leaves or
some lemon peel, and sugar TO TASTE.
Keep them stirred over the fire till on
the point OF boiling over; have the
white of the eggs whisked to Il stiff
snow with little sugar. When the
soup is poured into the toureen take
desert spoonfuls of the snow, sprinkle
powdered cinnamon over. throw them
into the soup and serve directly with
toasted rusk.
Very charming little Knitting bags
are made of square silk handkerchicls
embroidered in each corner. The
handkerchief is made up with tho
embroidered part inside. A running
string is put ia a circle just inside the
corners. which hang outward, so rs to
show the embroidery. 1t is better to
cut circle of stiff card, cover it with
material of the same color rs the hand
kerchiet, or line the latter with some
thing which harmonizes with it. This
circle forms steady base for the bag
aud keeps it in shape. 1t must be
sewn in the center of the handkerchief,
which is finished off with lace, and
ribbons are sewn at the points where
the string comes out, to form q KIND
nf bandlp