Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-07-01

The grained woodwork should be wash
ed with cold tea.
Silverware will keep as good as new II
tied up In paper bag.
Unslaked lime. near meat, preserves IL
by keeping the air dry.
Sleeping the wicks for tallow candles in
coal oil brightens the light.
Make your table look pretty; the food
taste better IL the surroundings please the
eye.
Old newspapers wrapped around the
ends of each slat will silence creaxing
bedstead.
A small amount Of salicylic acid added
to cold cream will save it from becoming
rancid.
Glaze the bottom crust of fruit or pump
kin pies with the white of an egg and they
will not get soggy.
A crumb cloth is an article that cannot
be dipensed with in the dining room If
your table is set over nice carpet.
Flower-pot stains can be removed from
window stills by rubbing with fine wood
ashes. Afterward rinse with cold water.
1t is better not to stir rice while it is
cooking as the flavor is best retained by
keeping the grains as whole as possible.
IL the white of an egg is used instead of
water for mixing the mustard, the plaster
will not blister the most delicate skin.
Smoky places on the kitchen ceiling
should be covered with gum shellac; then
they will not strike through the new coat
of kalsomine.
sure you save the Rawlings. They will
furnish just the darning thread you will
need when the carpet begins to CO."
The audacious English sparrow APP
parently fears nothing A pair of these
birds are actually housekeeping in the
hood of an electric street lamp in Port
land, Maine.
and boil them in the usual way till nearly
done and then finish by baking. They are
withered and more meally than when
aked the old way.
Before beginning to iron sprinkle the
table plentifully with water and lay on
the ironing blanket This will hold it firm.
ly In place and prevent all wrinkling and
showing about. Never try to iron with
blanket having wrinkles and punches.
In 1910 one operative working thirteen
or fourteen hours a day, turned off 5000
yards of standard sheeting year; in 1856
an operative in the same mill turns off
nearly or quite S0C0) yards per annum.
In 1856 the mills hours are ten. In 1910
wages were slI5 pear year; in 1886 they
are S2S5 per year.
A brick being porous, as lump ofsugar
and having six sides, needs careful filling
for water-tight work in cesspools, etc, and
a thin grout of porridge of cement is COM
monty used. Heating the brick and soak
ing beforehand in thick coal tar has been
recommended. A man may lay common
wall all his life without learning how to
make brick watertight.
A Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, black
smith the other day performed the mar
velous feat of knocking himself down. He
and a helper, the latter using a sledge
hammer, were welding a piece of iron,
when, by miscalculation, he struck the
helpers hammer, which flew up and hit
him in the face, knocking him senseless.
He recovered consciousness in two hours,
but his beauty is spoiled.
To keep ice in the sick room cut piece
of flannel about nine inches square, and
secure it by ligature about the mouth of
an ordinary tumbler so as to leave the cup
shape depression of flannel within the
tunibler TO about half its depth. In the
flannel cup so formed pieces of ice may be
preserved many hours, all the longer If a
piece of flannel from four to five inches
square he used as a loose cover to the ice
cup. Cheap flannel with comparatively
open meShes is preferable, as the water
easily drains through it and the ice is kept
quite dry.