Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Useful lnforma,tcs FOR Pasier, Fire.
side and Kitchen.

move stains left by medicine etc. Egg
stains on silver can be taken of with
table salt and a wet rag.
THE Orange County Farmer says if
you ill rubber boots half fun of oats
when they are taken OF at night they
will be nice and dry inside in the
morning,
For peppermint drops take two
cups of sugar and n cup of water;
boil five minutes, then flavor with n
spoonful of peppermint; stir until
Tick, then drop
FoR French cake, take two cups
sugar, half a cup butter, one cup milk,
three eggs, four cups flour, one tea
spoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream
of tartar, with or without spice.
IT is suggested that ball dresses may
be rendered safe from fire by impreg-
nation with a twenty-five per cent.
solution of tungstate of soda, which
injuries neither fabric nor color.
MILDEw on cotton or linen goods,
unless very bad, can be removed by
immersing in buttermilk or sou milk
and exposing to the sun. Sometimes it
is a help to use pounded chalk in con-
nection with this.
DILUTED HARTSHoRN will take mil
dew from wooden goods. A weak solu-
ton of chloride of lime will remove
mildew from almost any fabric, but
must be used with great care, as it
takes out or turns almost all colors.
OLD MAHOGANY furniture may be
repolished to look even better than
new. Wash in warn water and wipe
dry. Then "a over i; thoroughly with
a mixture of lr@vag and sweet oil on
a soft cloth. Polish with 4 chamois.
A CEMENT vary "'rrh used at the
present day in CHINA and Japan is
made of rice. y b ,n'g necessary to
mix rice flour i1 with water,
and gently ST. mixture over
n clear fire, retdily forms a
delicate and du- cement.
A DAINTYd'el IF a-e2kfast or lunch
is made of s,i,r~ =. .resh, crisp toast,
buttered very Fly. On each slice
put salmon and cucumber, or cold
meat and chutaey; sprinkle with pep
per and wrap e,c, slice in a lettuce
leaf that has been stepped in vinegar.
To MAKE what is called telegraph
cake, take one cup of sugar, one and a
half of flour, two eggs, four large
spoonfuls of water, one t~easpoonful Of
butter, n of cream of tartar, one
half of soda and a little lemon.
HOUSE painting done during the
autumn or early winter is much more
durable than that done earlier in the
season. The painter, too, is not then
annoyed by the tiny flies which are al
ways attracted by fresh paint if ap-
Piled while they are around.
TOMATO CATsUP.-One peck of to
matoes; twelve white onions; tire
tablespoonful of salt; one tablespoon
full each of black pepper, ground Gin
namon, cloves, and mace, and on,
whole mustard seed. Add a littl
sugar, and two quarts of cider vinegar
Scald, mash, strain, boil, and bottle.
DRYING pEARs.-The Journal o
Chemistry vouches for the value of thu
following mode of drying pears: Pare
core, and quarter them; If large, cut
in smaller pieces. Scald them in {
syrup made Of "coffee" sugar, ther
dry quickly in a hot-air closet, moder
ately heated oven, or other rapidly
evaporating apparatus. Keep air-tighi
in a glass fruit-jar. They make a goot
sweetmeat, and may be used in cake o.
puddings.
TIE cleanest and most polished
floors have no water used on them a
all. They are simply rubbed off every
morning with a large flannel cloth
which is stepped in kerosene oil onct
in two or three weeks. Shake clean O.
dust, and with a rubbing brush o.
stubby broom go rapidly up and dowr
the planks mot across). In a few rub
bings the floor assums a polished ap
pearance that is not easily defaced b,
dirt or footprints.
No MILLIoNARE's daughter Q
millionaire's wife knows how long he
husband or her father will be able
support her in luxury, or, indeed, I
support her at all. If every youn
woman would learn, through hal
work and self denial, how to do som
thing which there is constant demar
for, how the wolf would stink from
thousand doorsl how a thousar
hearths would be illuminated with
new cheerl There can never be CIV,
m approach to o solution Of 1t
woman question" until this need
the girls of the land is practically re;
lied in our homes.
To KEEL cider perfect take a keg a
bore holes in the bottom of it; spre
a piece of wooden cloth at the bottol
then fill with sand closely packt
draw your cider from a barrel just
fast as it will run through the sar
after this, put it in clean barrels viii
have had n piece of cotton or lin
cloth two by seven inches dipped
melted sulphur and burned inside
them, thereby absorbing the sulph
fumes dhis process will also sweet
sour cider; then keep it in a cellar
room where there is no fire, and @
one-half pound white mustard seed
each barrel.