The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1886-01-08
The 9eillsrgat.
FRTDAY........JANUARY 8, 1896
PRACTICAL HINTS.

voir Tor cooking purposes.
Cook oatmeal In double boiler, or
in covered pail set in . kettle Of
water. BE sure to salt It.
A sponge may bs cleansed by letting
ii lie covered with milk for twelve
hours, and then rinsing in cold water.
| Dipping broom into boiling suds
once . week will make II last three
times AZ long as II would without
Cement for cracked stoves. --Thrss
quarts wood ashes and one quart barrel
salt, mixed 10 q mortar with water.
Another correspondent wishes to
know how TO destroy snails 10 CELLAR.
Sprinkle we'll with salt.
Shining stove poliah.--If Mary will
put little sugar or alum TO her black
ing, she win have the desired effect |;
also lot the stove be cold.
Csment.--Try resin with half a.
much tAllow; thicksn with pulverized
bath brick while hot, and apply hot I;
1t Is good to ssai bottles with, too.
To keep nickel stove trimming, etc,
bright, polish them with damp cloth
dipped in common dry baking soda, and
with oil afterward.
Salt viii! curdle milk, therefore, in
preparing milk toast, sauces, scrambled
eggs, or anything of which milk il the
foundation, do not add the salt till the
pan has left lhs sre.
To take mildew out Of linen. ub
the linen with tne soap, then scraps
some fine chalk aid rub IL alss on she
linen. Lay It on the grass, as II dsies
: wet it little, aud IL will come ont ia
twice doing.
In cleaning paint, spots taat will not
: yield TO rubbing, or 10 soap even-ths
spots which look like small gashss enI
> through the paint--may be removed
! By rubbing lightly with = damp oloti
: dIPpsd in soda
. A good polish for torseise shell Il
, made Of rouge powder, which rubbed OF
|, ! with soft rag and rubbed thoroughly,
: will serve TO give au exoellsnt polish
/, The shell should be rubbed with The
hard afterward.
To clean tin. ~ Uss sssed coal ashes,
moistened with kerosene oil rub brisk
ly, aud wash with soap suda. Thi,
will make all .ia that l. not burned ~
J bright as new. For nickel on stoves
and hatirons Il has the sams effect.
MsI.sd parsiiine poured on top Of
jellies, jams, etc, also on the top el
canned fruit when Ihe covers are dia-
} colsfsd, will be all ihe covering neces.
ssry, excepting cloth or raper to sx-
clude dust. One can use the parafins
J many tunes.
| Cleaning glass, eIc.-To clean wins
ldovs, show casa, mirrors aud glas'
ware. dip damp cloth in whiting, and
rub on tho glass rub to gel of ell dirt
|. then let Il dry on aftsr which rul
/ With dry cloth 1t Is nice for nickle.
plasing and knives aud forks.
a Mustard plaster that will not blister
Few people know how 70 apply /
mustard plaster SO as not 10 blister To,
skin. IL the mustard be mixed with
the white Of an egg instead Of water
the plaster viii draw thoroughly with
out blistering the most delicate skin.
Hot water in syncope.- Writer'S il
the London "Lancst' call attention !,
the great values Of hot water applica
tions to the head in cases Of fainsing o
syncope. They say also that promp
use Of il, applied TO the forehead will
clothes, will often avert such attacks.
White sPecks in buttsr.-I think i
the lady who was troubled with white
specks in her butter would not let bel
cream get 80 sour, she would End i
would make difference, for when hel
cream Is warmed by churning 1t forms
what call clabbsr cheese, and that i
what is in her butter.