The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-10
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

makes them rough and hard.
Silver-mounted toilet sets intended for bridal
| gifts have the mirror. hair-brush and boxes of
| the heart shape. and therefore supposed to
be peculiarly appropriate.
A gargle of salt and vinegar with cayenne pep
per. will do more to disperse soreness of the
throat than any other remedy Of which we have
heard. 1t stimulates the glands, promotes free
secretion and will sometimes cure in few
hours.
keeping them for five minutes under melted
paraffne they must be kept down with wire
screen. These corks have perfectly smooth
surface. and may be introduced or drawn out
easily and seal perfectly.
Scotch short bread made by this recipe isrecom-
mendec: Half pound Of butter and aquarter
of pound of sugar mixed to cream; add one
pound of sifted -four, knead and roll it half an
inch thick. Bake slowly. If the cake is pre-
ferred very sweet use six ounces of sugar.
An excellent glycerine ointment for chapped
hands. says the Cook, is made by melting, with
gentle heat. two ounces of sweet Oil of almonds,
half an ounce of spermaceti, and one draehm of
white wax When melted, remove from the
stove and add an ounce of glycerine, and stir
until the mixture is cold. The ointment can be
scented with any perfume to suit the fancy,
| Keep in wide eEecked bottles.
Colored cashmere can be successfully washed
| in light. warm suds If ripped into pieces and
| ironed as soon as partly dry. Black silk skirts
| ripped apart from the belt or facings may be
| sponged with suds and rinsed in cold water then
| fold 1t, shake out the water and hang out for
| few minutes Iron while quite damp, on the
wrong side. Silk must not be twisted when wet
| it makes wrinkles that are difficult to smooth
| away
Try this way of making chocolate pudding:
Melt two ounces of butter mix in two ounces of
Hour, simmer to a soft paste In half pint or
| good milk, sweeten with two ounces of sugar and
| favor with two ounces of chocolate When cool
stir in theSyolks of four eggs well beaten, and
the whites beaten to snow; put into buttered
mold Immediately; put the mold in pan half
full of hot water set in the oven and bake an
| hour Serve with sauce.
AS bonnet pins are necessity, and are
] slightly objects upon the pretty tolet-cushion,
an ingenious and decorative receptacle for them
| is made of Japanese paper mats. Two mats
have layers of wadding between them, and are
then stitched together with colored silk just
| leaving the futed edges for border. At two
opposite ends loops and ends of inch-wide satin
ribbon, in the colors of the paper are fastened.
! The cushion is suspended by ribbon, which is
stitched in with the cotton.
| For gingerbread without eggs take one cup of
mofasses, one cup of sugar, one cup of butter
milk or loppered milk, half a cup of butter,
! tablespoonful OF ginger, one teaspoonful OF
| cinnamon nutmeg or mace, about four cups of
| flour, one rounded teaspoonful of soda siftedl
| twice with the -four Stir butter sugar, mo-
| lasses and spice together; when you have
| warmed them slightly put in the milk and then
the flour. Beat until the batter is several shades
| lighter than when you began and bake at
| in small tins.
/ Among the most popular English fancy y-work.
embroidered lace may be mentioned. White or
cream -colored furniture lace with a raised pat
i tern is best Trace the pattern in tinse and
/ embroder thickly in button-hole and other fat
| fancy stitches, everywhere except on the tinsel
/ and over the background. Stamped velvet, on
| the contrary, has the background entirely
cred with tinsel, thus giving the appearance of
velvet with gold. silver. metallic background.
/ Colors are now sold woven in with the tinsel-
blue and silver, scarlet and gold, etc.
/ The use of milk in febrile disorders is of COM
/ paratively recent date. The practice of keeping
| typhoid patients alive for weeks on almost ex-
innovation. but its success has been the best ar
i gument in its favor. The drinking of hot milk
i as a remedy for bowel troubles has also been
| proved since the threatenings of cholera have
/ been heard among US. A glass of this, as hot as
/ it can be swallowed, taken at each meal to the
| exclusion of every other beverage has been
known to act like a charm as an anti-laxative
| A cupful of liquid is not what can carry with
out spillng, but what the cup will hold without
i running over-full to the brm. Place your cup
in a saucer while filling it. or in the bowl in
] which the liquids to be poured Half cupful is
i not half the distance from the bottom to the
| brim. Most cups smaller at the bottom. for
| which allowance must be made. Take two cups
Il
| then pour the water without spilling into the
| other cup until it stands at the same level in
/ both cups. This gives you the half cupful ex-
/ actly, which. in the cups In common use, is two
| thirds the height
/ For slight burns cover all the injured parts
/ with layer of powdered soda. For deeper
| burns. but where the skin is not broken, dip
| linen rags in solution made by dssolvlng about
onethird of an ounce of the soda in pint of
| water lay the rags on. and keep them moist
wit n fho Enpv hr1rn FOL
/ lowed by suppuration formation of pus), apply
/ the rags in the same way, keeping them moist,
/ but frequently exchange them when dry for
/ fresh ones, and carefully wash off, with the
| soda solution, any matter that has accumulated
1 underneath SO that it may not be absorbed into
/ and poison the blood.
/ Floral Cabinet: We are asked repeatedly for
| the best climbing plant for the liying-room, the
/ best plant for a hanging, basket, tho most
cheerful plant for winter er-blooming. To al, these
questions reply, the common morning-glory,
| convol. ulus major the best known OF all twining
| plants. and deserving all the praises that
have been heaped upon it AS window plant
| for winter blooming it is a success. it grows
! freely and produces graceful flowers in abund-
! ance Besides. the morning glory in the house
/ has the ADVANTAGE of those grown outside, mas
| much as their flowers remain open nearly the
| whole day. and again, they are not such rampant
| growers as when planted in the border.
| Hyacinths in glasses frequently become, by
] the time the flowers are beginning to expand, SO
weak and spindling that the leaves fall about
and han over the sides of the glasses thus pre-
/ senting decidedly unsatisfactory appearance.
The cause of this is insufficency of light
and it may. therefore, be clyisable to direct
special attention to the fact that the plants in
| glasses. in common with those grown in pots,
! should have light position from the time they
commence to make new growth 1t is advisable
| to keep thcm in cupboard or other place from
which the light is excluded until they are well
| furnished with roots, but Immediately the leaves
| begin to push they must be put into the fullest
light possible. and place in south window is
decidedly preferable.
Some one writes to the New York Times that
this Is the best way to make coffee: Buy the best
coffee and grind it to the consistency of ordinary
cernmeal Into French teapot put an ounce
j of coffee for every narsnn One nnnnd of cnifaa