New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-14
no SEHO..D HINTS.
A newspaper Is preferable to j
brush for polishing q stove.

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A newspaper IS preferable to i
brush for polishing stove.
If salt is strewn over carpets before
they are swept it will tend to freshen
the colors.
Water in which prunes have bee.
soaked over night makes very ac-
ceptable acid drink.
A dish of cold water placed in al
oven that is too hot for baking will
speedily reduce the temperature.
An effective design for wall pocket
is conventionalized yellow jessaminu
worked in Kengsington stitch or
dead leaf sateen or serge.
Eating few pieces of common
starch will sometimes settle weak
stomach. Gum arabic is also good
remedy, and it will relieve ticking in
the throat.
The white of and egg is the best APP.
plication for soothing burns and
scalds. It may be poured over the
wound, and forms at once a varnish
which excludes the air.
Brass, copper or tin vessels should
never be used in making pickles, as
the action Of the acid frequently pro.
duces poison. A porcelain, or granite
iron vessel is best for pickle making.
To prevent mould forming on fruit
jellies, pour little melted paraffine
over the top. 1t will harden into q
solid cake when it cools, and it can be
easily removed. It can he saved and
used again next season.
Savealls made of tissue paper to
represent roses of chrysanthemuml
are very convenient They save the
constant washing of the glass ones.
and may be changed whenever Spot
of candle grease appears.
One who knows from experience
says that if people will drink butter.
milk ''crow's feet'' and wrinkles will
be kept in allegiance. Buttermilk is a
refreshing drink. and as It's baAutify-
ing qualities are vouched for it ought
to become popular.
Unique and curious panels are
made by hiking etched plates and then
taking the impression by covering
them with liquid plaster of Paris. The
ink is transferred to the plaster as per-
fectiy as if it were carefully printed.
These pancles may be framed.
It is to be hoped that no one will do
as fashion journal says, and keep the
pillows IN a closet through the day.
Keep the pillows ON the bed, whether
it be fashionable or not, unless a closet
with a window which permits the
free access of pure air be available.
An excellent method of administer
ing castor oil to children is arrived al
by pouring the oil into a pan over a
moderate fire, then breaking an egg
into it and stirring WELL Favored
with a little sugar or current jelly,
the mixture will not be dsagrecable.
For polishing stained floors use 8
weighted brash with long handle.
BeeswaX gives a very much better
polish than varnish, as the latter will
show every scratch of the boots or
chairs upon it, and will soon look like
an old floor. Do not begin with var
nish, but use the wax polish from the
first
An omelet pan and pancake grid
die, says an old cook, ought never TIC
be washed. Thoroughly rub the pan
and griddle after and before using,
with clean, dry cloth. OF course
these dishes, if so handled, are never
to be used for any other purpose than
0melets and pancakes, and there will
be no trouble with either sticking to
the pan or griddle.
From ten to twenty drops of bro.
mine dissolved in an ounce of olive
oil is claimed to be an etfectual rem.
edy for the eruption caused by con.
tact with poison oak, ivy, etc. 1t is
used by rubbing gently on the affected
part three or four times a day, and
especially on going to bed at night
The bromine is SO volatile that the
solution should be renewed within
twenty-four hours.
Remember that one of the very
incest, if not the incest, way to pre-
pare pumpkin for pies is as follows.
Cut the pumpkin in half, put it in q
dripping pan skin side doWn, (afte,
the seeds are removed) in a slow oven;
bake until all the good can be easily
scraped from the rind with spoon;
if 1T is as brown us nicely baked
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to one quart add a quarter of a pound
of butter, while hot. Then make 1p
after your usual formula.
Rusked bread and milk is a new
dish, very fashionable at city lunch
tables, and great help to the house.
keeper IN disposing OF stale bread.
But perhaps you do not know wha,
rusked bread is. 1t is simply bread
dried quickly in the oven till it is q
aight brown, then pounded till abou,
as fine as rice. 1t is ..just delicious"
with milk and berries, better than
'bread or crackers;' and we suspect
might serve as foundation for a deli.
.cious pudding to replace the usual
'>3bread pudding"
Few cooks appreciate as they should
the necessity .of draining and airing
all canned vegetables. For canned
peas Gin tiny, beans, tomatoes, or any
other. always open them three hour:
before they are wanted. Drain off all
the liquor and Throw it away. Turn