Evening star., 1885-07-25
HOME MATTERS.

THE PROCESS OF CURLING FEATHERS consists
in heating them slightly before the fire, then
stroking them with the back of knife, when
they will curl.
IN BUYING heavy rep furniture cretonne be
careful that it has no stifening. If it is not
quite soft it cannot be used to advantage, for
unless 1t is quite pliable 1t looks very badly and
Is apt To crack and tear when manipulated In
upholstering.
In GERMANY, a favorite and very pleasant
bowl .'eup" is often made of peaches, sliced
and soaked for a time in little water with
sugar. and three or four bottles of Rhine wine
poured over them, according to the amount of
fruit used.
MEDICUs WRITES: ssTefl your readers that
cold infusion is preferable to hot one for
feed tea. Pour cold water on the dry tea at
least four hours before the tea is needed, place
IL in the ice chest and add the ice when served.
The same proportions are used as for the hot
Infusion
TRY THIS FROZEN FRUIT CREAM: Mix one
pound of fruit with one quart of good fresh
cream sweetened TO taste. Press all through
q fine sieve and put in freezer and proceed as
Tor Ice cream. Ii put into fancy mOlds freeze
first, then pack well in the forms and put back
In the Ice and salt.
THE SMELL OF PAINT may be taken away
by closing up the room and setting in the center
of II a pan of lighted charcoal which have
been thrown some juniper berries. Leave this
in the room for a day and night, when the
smell OF the paint wilibe gone. Some persons pre-
Ter pail of water in winch a handful of hay is
soaking. This is also effectual in removing the
odor OF tobacco smoke from room.
A MosT EXCELLENT LOTION for sprains or
swellngs is made of one drachm of sugar of
lead and two ounces of laudanum mixed with
one pint OF water. Rub the sprained or swollen
part with the solution and keep ii constantly
moist with il. stout bandage is invaluable
in sprains. If feet or legs be swollen always rub
upward, never downward.
SHOE DRESSING: Gum-shellac half a pound,
alcohol three quarts, dissolve, and add CAM
phor one and a-half ounce, lampblack two
ounces. The foregoing will be found TO give an
excellent gloss, and is especially adapted to
any leather the surface of which is roughened
by wear.
To PREVENT THE RAIDS OF BLACK ANTS
Bcatter cayenne pepper on the shelves of the
pantries they frequent, and in the cracks.
Make very heavy chalk marks about the sugar
barrel. Ants very seldom cross a chalk mark.
few days continued vigilance will generally
clear them out.
GREEN Corn, to be properly cooked, should
be dropped into pot of boiling water-no salt
and left there for ten minutes-be sure the
water Is in a great rage-then taken out and
wrapped in large napkin until you are ready
to eat IL. Boiled longer than ten minutes, the
milk hardens in the kernel and il is not "a tenth
part as palatable and ii is much less digestible.
DEvILED SARDINEs-They are lightly broiled
with dash of lemon juice and a pinch of cay
enne- 1t is a breakfast or luncheon dish. For
devlled liver YOU take underdOne liver of q roast
or boiled chicken or turkey: mash il smooth on
a hot-water plate; add a little butter, some mus
tard. salt and cayenne. with a teaspoonfll of
anchovy sauce or mushroom catsup Spread
on toast and serve very hot.
PRETTY WALL POCKET is made of a large
palmleaf or japanese fan, covered smoothly
with silk, serge pretty satteen or cretonne
The pocket part is made large enough to allow
OF being gathered or box-pated and to have a
heading above and below. 1t is then fastened
securely TO the fan and edged with fluffy balls
Of silk. The fan is suspended by 81 silk cord
fastened securely TO the point where the handle
Joins the fan. and either end is finished with a
ball OF silk like those about the edge.
To STAIN A FLOOR take five cents worth of
burnt lumber and one quart of boiled inseed
Oil. (lf the floor Is large you may require more
materially. Mix the lumber into the oil gradr,-
ally until you have the shade You wish your
hoor to be meantime trying it on old piece
OF board until you have the desired shadel.
Rub IT hard intothe floor with piece of wooden
cloth, and rub over Immediately, with q soft
clean, dry cloth, first taking care to put on old
gloves As the preparation gradually washes
lighter with subsequent scrubbings. at the end
OF three or four weeks "a rubbing over with the
oil alone VIII brighten il wonderfully, and as
often as necessary the whole receipt can be used
10 advantage.
IN THE USE OF CANNED MEATS, in warm
weather more especially, but really at all times
1t is advisable after opening a can to remove
the contents from the can, and III not all con-
suned AT one meal not TO replace the meat in
the can, but To place ii in the ice box or t least
take as much care of 1t of fresh or cooked
butcher meat 80 long aS the can is air tight it
matters not whether il be left for years at the
poles or the tropics; but after the contents are
once exposed To the air they must not be treated
with any less care than would be bestowed on
ordinary fresh or cooked meat. 1t is the failure
TO observe these simple precautions that leads
10 sickness or poisoning.
Mock BISQCE SOUP.-One-half can tomatoes
one quart milk, one-third cup batter, one table
spoon cornstarch, one teaspoon salt, one-half as
much pepper. Stew the tomatoes till soft
enough to strain easily. Boil the milk in a
a fEl.l frtIsn
butter and the cornstarch together in q small
saucepan. adding enough of the hot milk To
make II pour easily. Stir it carefully into the
boiling milk and boil ten minutes Add re-
matnder of the butter in small pieces and stir
Till well mixed. Add salt and pepper and the
strained tomatoes. If the tomatoes be very
acid add half a saltSpOon OF soda before strain
ing. Serve very hot. Many use more tomatoes
with this, but excellent housekeeper not
long since gave the writer the best possible
proof y, e. "in the eating that it Is much
nicer with the small quantity mentioned
above.
DIsINFECTANTs.-In response to several in
quiries regarding disinfectants we give below
what Dr. DOmett Stone says about them: "AIl
authorities, believe. are agreed in giving the
preference io chlorine. which may be evUIved
Dy mixing III abottle two tablespoOnfuls OF COM
1uou ssttt- Two tlbie>pooniuls of red lead and
half "a wlneglassful OF strong oil of yitriol in a
quart oil water. The bottle ShouId he kent cool
tightly stopped and in dark place; little Of
this nuid exposed in saucer sprinkled ON the
hoor, OF soaked in sheets OF Old linen and hung
Green copperas tsuiphate of from, one pound
dissolved in gallon of water, is another very
excellent agent. and the same may be said of
the tunes of sulphur tsuIphuruus acid1 for un-
occupied rooms. Chloride OF lead solution is
another potent fluid; il is cheap involves very
little trouble, instantaneous in its effect and
perfectly safe. Indeed. any of the above will
be found To destroy the rtnkest compound or
Flilalnous smell that ever offended nostril'"
BITE>.-W hen any one i bitten by a dog that
seems 20 be mad, there are but three things to
do han nsiaun riSylr r1,-.
tween II and the heart; put n stick through, il
anu twist ii a tight "a can be borne, so "A, 10
stop tde circulation and prevent the poison
from being absorbed; then let some one-the
person bitten il he can reach it-suck the
wound splitting out the saliva Meanwhile
heat the scissors. the head of nail or the poker
10 "a uhtfs neat and scar the wound with il II
SUCK OF cu>tc Is to- be had il can I,. rubbed
into tine bite instead OF burning In The hrrn
can then be dressed with baking soda la relieve
the snlaTtlng. " hoover has the COURAGE. In a.
thl> VIII have done all that is possible to pre-
vent HEdropiObia II the dog was really mad
The poor animal should be- shut up for a r. W
days until this fact Is ascertained for if il turns
out To be harmless. the person will be spared
of an insect no remedy is ss good as :, cloth wei
with ammonia bound ON the place. Fine salt
daInpeued. or onion Juice, may be used if this
Is not attainabIe.
African Forests.
In travelling through the great forests of the
Rocky mountains. or oI all the western states
The broken branches and fallen trunks str.,ri "a q,