The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-17
HINTS.

In using cloves for pickles or pre-
serves the blossom end should be re-
moved, as this darkens the liquid with
which it is cooked.
To take spots of paint off wood, lay
a thick coating of lime and soda mixed
together over it, letting it stay twenty
four hours, then wash off with warm
water, and the spot will have disap.
peared,
Curtains have been introduced hav-
ing alternate stripes of Opaque and
translucent material, producing charm
ing effects and presenting the advan-
tages of two sets OF curtains, the n
heavy and the other light.
Carrots Mashed-Scrape, wash, lay
in cold water for half an hour, then
cook tender in boiling water, drain
well, mash with a wooden spoon, work
in 2 good piece of butter, and season
with pepper and salt. Serve hot.
Chloride of lime is an infallible pre-
yentive for rats, as they flee from its
odor as from a p~estilence. 1t should
be thrown down their holes and spread
about wherever they are likely Il come,
and should be renewed once a fort
night.
1t may not be generally known that
after clothes are starched in the usual
manner, if they are passed through a
bath OF chloride of zinc, heated to
about sixty degrees, the starch will be
held through several successive wash
lngs and will suffer no change by being
exposed to the dew or rain.
Chow Chow-Two quarts chopped
tomatoes, IN quart chopped Bell pep
pers, one-half pint chopped onions, one
half pint chopped cabbage, one cup
white mustard seed, a small cup of salt.
Cover tomatoes with the salt and drain
twelve hours before mixing in the other
ingredients and spices. Heat some vim
egar till boiling and pour over the mix
ture till it is covered.
Light Dumplings-Take some hop
yeast bread dough when ready to be
nodded into the pans, cut off small
pieces. shape them. let them rise a short
Time, and then drop them into the soup,
which must be boiling. Cover closely
and keep boiling until done. 1t takes
somewhat longer to boil than to bake
them. Take care not to have too many
Dr. they will crowd.
Wall pockets, for holding a supply
Of pocket handkerchiefs, to be reached
without the trouble of pulling open a
drawer. are o sensible invention.
They are made of plush or leather
and have a flap that keeps the con
tents OF this pocket free from dust.
Any shape that may be fancied will
serve, and If the pocket is cnt with a
Gather high backing a tiny pouch, for
holding the watch at night, may be
added.
A bottle Of turpentine should be
kept IN every house, for its uses are
numerous. A few drops sprinkled
where c~ockroachess congregate will
sxterminate them ut once; also ants,
red or black. Moths will fee from
the odor Of it. Besides, it is and ex.
eellent application for a burn or cut.
1t will take ink stains out of white
muslin. when added to soap, and will
help to whiten clothes il added to
them when boiling.
Salad Dressing-Stir to d cream two
tablespoonfuls each of butter and q
one tablespoonful of mustard, q tea,
spoonful of salt. a pinch pepper and
the we'll beaten yolks of three eggs.
Nix these all together until smooth and
creamy, then stir in one ~teacupful vim.
egar, and lastly the same amount Of
milk. Put in a double boiler or In {
vessel set in water, and stir carefully
until il thickens, then remove at once
70 avoid curdling. II Will keep some
time in a cool place.