Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-13
HINTS TO HoUsEkEEPEas.

| HINTS TO HOUSEkEEPERS.
COLD tea is an old-fashioned remedy
| Tor sore eyes. Battle the eyes frequent
ly, especially before retiring, and you
will soon find relief.
! MUsKMELoNs should not be kept on ice
too long before serving, as they lose
! their flavor if they become too cold;
two hours is long enough to keep them
| on ice.
WHEN you buy a new broom, select a
dozen OF the smoothest and largest
| spllnts, pull them out and Law them
away to use in testing cake when it is
| baked
For chapped lips, dissolve beeswax in
small quantity of sweet oil by heating
| carefully. Apply the salve two or three
times day, and avoid wetting the lips
as much as possible.
To set the color in black or dark
hosiery, calicoes, cambrics, etc., put n
large tablespoonful of black pepper in
| pail of water, and let the articles lie In
| soak for couple of hours.
A sALvE that is good for all kinds of
wounds, etc., is made of equal parts of
yellow wax and sweet oil. Melt slowly,
carefully stirring. When cooling, stir
in a small quantity of glycerine.
CAvIARE is made of the roe of
the sturgeon, salmon, cod and
other fish. 1t is a Russian delicacy
which is imported in kegs. It is often
served spread on slices of toast.
MILDEwED linen may be restored by
them with fine chalk scraped to powder
and rubbing it well in. Or soak in but
| termilk and spread on the grass in the
| sun.
CUT glass, the crevices of which readi-
ly secrete dust, needs to be washed
with hot suds, and the cuttings scrubbed
with moderately stiff BRUSH Then
rinse in warm water and wipe dry with
tissue paper.
SMOKE marks from kerosene lamps
may be removed from the ceiling 10y
washing with strong soda water, and
the yellow stains from leaks with a
strong solution of white vitriol, at least
so an OLD calciminer and painter tells
me.
IN buying meat for soup, choose a
knuckle of veal. Have the butcher
| crack the bones in every part. The
bones are ag valuable as the meat itself,
owing to the gelatine in them, which
lmparts peculiar richness.
To keep highly polished brass free
from tarnish cover it with a thin coat of
varnish made of shellac dissolved in al
cohol. So long as the varnish remains
the brass will continue to remain bright.
The article should be warm when the
varnish is applied.
A. NEAT device for the setting of tables
for small parties is to have the table
round, with low basket of flowers in
the center, and decorations of smilax
roo ohI rorr ont 10 L,
ton, like spokes of wheel. Each
guest has the space between the outer
ends of two of the spokes.
To make fine shirt bosoms stiff: Az
ter starching in warm boiled starch, dry
and then starch in some of the cold
boiled starch and told until ready for
ironing. If wrinkle should happen
to make its appearance, take q small
cloth wet in the starch and rub the
wrinkle out and iron again,
IT is comparatively easy to extermi-.
nate black ants. Tie little red ants are,
however, very hard to get rid of. A lit
tie powdered hellebore sprinkled
around at night will as a rule quickly
exterminate them. Care must be taken
in using the hellebore, and in brushing
| 1T away In the morning, as it is poison
GUS. Powdered sulphur will frequently
answer the purpose.
To remove ants from closet the most
efficacious method is to grease a tin pie
plate with lard and place it on the
closet floor under the shelves The
ants will seek the lard in preference to
anything else, and in little while the
plate will be covered with them, when
| they can be destroyed and the plate re-
turned for another capture.
NEVER use soap in the water when
cleaning oilcloth. It fades and colors
| and breaks up the paint. Ammonia,
| also, is to be avoided, because it gives
| the cloth dull, dead look. IF a brush
is used, it should be soft one; but it is
| better not to use any, except in cases
when the oilcloth has been long neg
lected, or poorly washed for some time
| previously.
! PoTATo poultices are used with sue
| cess in ophthalmia or Inflammation of
| the eyes. 1t is stated that when the
! trouble has been of an acute character,
| these poultices have proved successful
when other kinds have failed. The fol-
| lowing is the recipe for making them:
| Boil the common potato, mash or bruise
| soft, and then stir in a little finely pull
verized elm bark. Apply the pouI-
| tees in the usual manner.
SCENTED powders for sachets, hand
| kerchief boxes and bureau pads can
easily be made at home. For rose
powder, mix three ounces OF corn
| starch with one of orris powder and
| pass through fine sieve. Pour ON
/ eight drops of altar of rose, and mix
well. For violet powder mix together
| tour ounces of orris powder, twenty
| drops OF essence of bergamot, and
| twenty drops of essence of ambergris.