The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-07
Useful Hints.

To brighten faded carpet, sponge with
a mixture OF one part oX-gall 20 two
parts water.
Apple sauce is much improved by the
addition of a tablespoonful of butter and
requires le sugar.
Cold sliced potatoes fry and taste bet
ter by sprinkling a teaspoonful of flour
over them while frying.
Infants under three months of age
should not be given arrowroot or other
starchy foods, for they cannot digest
them.
To seed raisins easily, pour hot water
over them, let it remain a moment, then
drain off. The hot water loosens the
seeds and they come out clean.
Charcoal is recommended as an alb.
sorber of gases in the milk room where
foul gases are present. 1t should be
freshly powdered and kept there con
tinually.
The best thing for burn is to wet the
burn with cold water. then cover the
burn with whe4 flour so thick it will
keep out the air; keep it on, it will pre-
vent blistering.
A decided improvement in the eating
bib for children is made of towel. 1t
is better to have the towel white. Hollow
out the neck before binding, and bind
with white tape.
Table linens should always be hemmed
by hand Not ouly do they look more
dainty, but there is never a streak of
dirt under the edge after being Numbered,
as with machine sewing.
Turpentine and black varnish, put with
any good stove polish, is the backing
used by hardware dealers for polishing
heating stoves. If properly put on it
will last throughout a season.
Fog is an excellent cosmetic. To il is
due mu Ii Of the beauty of English com
pleNions, and those who live in hot and
dry climates must be doubly careful to
guard against their dessicating effect if
they would escape the appearance of
mummieS.
In putting away wash dresses, every
vestige of starch should be removed. and
they should be left unlroned. White
dresses of any fabric are improved by
placing sheets of blue tissue paper be-
tween the folds, and then wrapping the
whole dress IN the same paper.
Never put Md glo,e e. upon little
children. II is simply blrbarous. In
winter woolen mitts are good and sens
ible, with Isle thread for moderate
weather; but in summer it is positively
sinful to hide the dimples and fetter the
motion of cunning BABY fingers.
To clean Drowned porcelain kettle,
boil wood ashes in the kettle few min
utes then scour it with the ashes and
rinse well. If fruit burns in it, set the
kettle off the fire quietly and let the CON
tents cool before distributing. u will .
not hurt the fruit, aad will save the .
kettle much. FOnr OIL the fruit care
fully if any Of It is good, wash what .
will leave the kettle without scraping.
and If not all loose boil ashes in il as
above. Sudden heating or cooling tends .
10 make it crack.
A goose roasted after the German style
may he admitted 10 the table as q yaria-
lion. Rub the goose the previous night
with salt, pepper, SAGE, thyme, aud sweet
marioram inside and out: in the morn
ing prepare the dressing 4 large hand
'ul Of stoned faisins aud /autc CuIrInts
20 bread crumbs or cumbled crackers;
.wo sour apples chopped fine, and one
nealy potato mixed in with butter and
Ill well rolled together without spices.
For the gravy, boil the gibIets in a
title water aud mash the liver ia a
poonful Of -four, chop the eilllrds, stir
hese in the liquid they were boiled in,
i'd it 10 the gravy in the drippiugpan.
Winkle in a little thyme, SAGE, and
wect mar Dram, and IL is done Serve
he gravy separately When the goose
s served, grnish il with sliced lemon
nd some spIigs Of parsley