The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-18
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

for arm chair.
mixture of two parts of gycerine, one part
ammonia. and a little rose water whiten and
soften the hands.
Corn husks braided make serviceable and
handsome mat. The braids to be seved with
sack-n needle and Irvine.
The newest style of picture. frames is in woven
strands of split bamboo The light-straw hue is
well adapted to water color paintings.
A piece of zinc. placed on the Goals of hot
stone, will clean out the stovepipe. The vapor
produced carries off the SCOT like chemical de-
composition.
It is wise, if you are going to put English cur
rants into cake, to dry them on cloth by the
fire after washing Them as sometimes the cold
water will cause the cake to fall.
pretty toilet set may be made of very fine
null; this should be hemmed into eight inch
squares or such sized mats as may be preferred,
and edged with wide white lace. Paint the
squares In oil in some simple design.
1t is best to iron fannels before they are quite
dry. Borax softens and whitens them; bluing
renders them harsh and unsightiv. If the wash
ing water to be used is at ali hard. dissolve and
add little borax, but never put in any bluing.
Many cooks consider it great Improvement
upon ordinary apple sauce which is to be served
with roast goose or with pork, to rub 1T through
coiander, and then to beat it with spoon until
1t is very light and almost like pulp.
To remove mildew, soap the linen, previously
wetted and apply salt and lemon juice to both
sides, or, amply fnely-powdered pipe-clay, or
Fullers earth or finely powdered chalk. Expose
1t for several hours to the atmosphere
To sweeten musty barrels throw in burning
Goals, and then cold water. Public brewers
wash their casks with lime and water, mixed
nearly to the consistency of paint, let it remain
until dry, and then wash well with water.
Plaster panels are one of the latest fancies for
wall decoration, with family or fancy portraits
in low relief. The portrait is nodded from life,
or from photograph in wax, and copies are
made in plaster by a cast maker at little expense.
Tall, yellow. japanese jars with fiarng rims.
having wire basket or flower pot fitted in the
top in which varieties of tradescantia are plant
ed, are in charming contrast to the long sprays
of waxy foliage trailing down their graceful
sides.
An aid in making button-holes in garment
which trays badly is to take piece of glue that
has a smooth and rather thick edge, dip it
slightly in hot water and pass lightly over the
goods before cutting the button holes The re-
suit will be satisfactory.
little turpentine in the wash boiler will
make clothes very white, and will often remove
incorrigible stains from white goods. A table
spoonful of turpentine to large boiler, or a tea
spoonful to two gallons of water. There is NO
smell. the boiling preventing it.
Oatmeal cakes may be successfully kept from
crumbling if you add little wheat -four to oat
meal mush. knead it. and then roll it quite thin
and bake for half an hour in a hot oven. These
must be kept where they will be dry, as they alb
sorb moisture surprisingly, and are rendered I'M
fit for use by it.
For furniture polish, boil together cold
drawn linseed oil and as much alkanet root as it
will cover, and to every quart of oil add two
ounces OF the best rose pink: when all the color
is extracted, strain it off, and for every quart
"A q n TN wi ha
very superior composition for soft and light ma
hogapy.
unique design for buffet-cover border is
Indian corn worked with creweis or colored cot
tons. THE maize ears, full and shining" are.
lightly linked together by their green and yell
low garments" four husks being gracefully dis
posed about each ear. At either end of the de-
sign the arrangement of the husks about the
ears forms characteristic finish.
An excellent dish for breakfast is made of six
eggs and three tablespoonful of ham chopped
very fine; beat the eggs, and, after melting
lump of butter in the frying pan. drop the eggs
into it and stir the ham in; the ham has of
course, been cooked either fried or boiled; sea-
with pepper. This is a good way to use up
pieces of meat that are left from dinner.
A writer in the Southern Home gives this
recipe for green pepper sauce: Take one-haf
gallon green peppers three small onions, one quart
of vinegar, and boil soft Pass through sieve
closely. Season with teacup of sugar. salt,
pepper and garlic or onions, to TASTE also large
spoonful of celery seed. Add pint of vinegar,
boil twenty minutes, strain and bottle close.
To make apple butter one should have two
bright boilers or evaporators, and better. three
In one fresh. sweet cider should be rapidly and
steadily boiling down, in the other thin-sced
sweet apples should he boiling down to a mush.
This kettle must be replenished from the one of
boiling cider until the apples become a smooth
mass that when cold could almost be sliced and
be smooth as butter Some persons spice their
apple butter; this is a matter of taste.
Chocolate sauce, to be eaten with cottage pud-
ding or with corn starch blanc-mange, is made
of half pint of cream and half pint of milk
Crate two tablespoonful of chocolate into this.
Let 1T come to the boiling point, then add the
well-beaten yolk of two eggs. or, if generously
disposed, of three. When the sauce is of the
right consistency take it from the fire and add to
it the whites of two eggs, which you have beaten
to stiff froth. with tablespoonful of powdered
sugar. Flavor with vanilla.
Baskets of all shapes, sizes and kinds share
the present popularity of bags. The round,
gided or brouzed (painted) baskets are very use
full for harpins, and the larger for cuffs and
collars. A handsome bow of scarlet, or peacock
blue, velvet ribbon. decorates the covers of
the baskets. Those intended for fancy work are
deliberately trimmed with satin ribbon, some
times several colors combined Odd shaped bas-
kets are hung on walls and used much the same
as their rivals, the fancy bags.
Demorest's Magazine says. People who pos
sess the old-fashioned, handsomely carved four
post bedsteads are bringing them from their
long Punishment in attcs and using them again
Instead of the old time chintz curtains, the lace
striped scrim is used for their draperies follow
ing the same style of make. however The
effect is pretty beyond description. Curtains of
this material may be drawn at night, and form
an effectual protection from mosquitoes, and are
far prettier than any mosquito MEETINGS. An
tique lace may be used to trim the draperies, if
desired.
To whiten old flannel make a suds of hard soap
and soft water, dissolve teaspoonful of borax
and put in the suds; put the flannel in the suds
and let it lie few minutes, then wash and rinse:
have ready some cloths dipped in melted brim-
stone and wound on sticks: two will be sufficient:
put them in candlestick anything to hold
them in an upright position; hang the flannel in
barrel, so that smoke come up through the
middle and around it; light the birthstone can
dies and set them in the bottom of the barrel
y. re- ell.