The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-10-11
THE Household.
Household Suggestions.

One tablespoon (well rounded) of
soft butter weighs one ounce.
Hang a small bag of charcoal in the
rainwater barrel to purify the water.
If dishes must be washed in hard
water, add little milk to the water
and do without soap.
A little -four shaken on your creased
cakepan is better preventive Of stick
ing than paper.
Brass work can be kept beautifully
bright by occasionally rubbing with
salt and vinegar.
Damp salt will remove the discolora-
ton of cups and saucers caused by to
and careless washing.
When broilng steak throw little
salt on the Goals and the blaze from
dripping fat will not annoy.
TO clean willow furniture use salt
and water. Apply it with nail brush,
scrub well and dry thoroughly.
AS a dressing for ladies' shoes gly-'
cerine renders the leather soft and
pliable without soiling garments which
come in contact.
To kill cockroaches and waterbugs
the following may be used: Boil an
ounce eff pokeroot in one pint of water
until the strength is extracted; mix the
decoction with molasses aud spread it
in plates on the kitchen and laundry
floors and in the closets or anywhere
where the vermin may trouble you.
Sprinkling salt on the top and at the
bottom of garden walls is said to keep
snails from climbing up or down.
Chocolate icing Can b. and is better
made with yolks of eggs instead OF
whites; making softer icing and dis
posing of the yolks of the eggs.
Carbolic acid is recommended for
moistening the tools with which metals
are worked. The efficiency of the
grindstone is said to be greatly IN
creased by this means.
A single piece of paper or linen
moistened in turpentino and put into
the wardrobe or drawers for single
day two or three times year, is pre-
veptive against moths.
Save all your broken and crooked
carpet tacks, and keep them in box
in the kitchen for cleaning bottles
They are better than shot, for the
sharp edges scrale off all the stains.
To set delicate colors in embroidered
hankerchiefs, soak them ten minutes
previous to washing in pail of tepid
water, in which a dessert spoonful of
turpentine has been we'll stirred.
Every night the kitchen sink should
be cleanscd by a solution of two table
spoontuls of washing soda in a gallon
of boiling water. This should be pour
cd in while at boiling point,
Knives with rubber handles shoult
never be washed in soap suds, as it
takes the gloss off the rubber and
causes them to fake up. Ivory, bone
or wood handles should not be put il
hot water.
Be sure and put your clothes pins in
hot soap suds at least once in two weeks
and let them boil; sfter which they
may be taken out, dried, and put away
in a bag, ready for use on next wash
day.
Ink stains are entirely removed by
the immediate application Of dry sail
before the ink has dried. When tn,
salt becomes discolored by absorbing
the ink, brush it off and apply more:
wet slightly. Continue this till the
ink is all removed.
The following is the best way to
wash flannel shirts Souse the garment
in hot suds; don't rub; PIT repeatedly
through wringer; never put into cold
water. AT first washing it should
shrink half an inch; after that, not al
ell, if properly washed.
A little powdered potash thrown
into rat holes will drive the rodents
away that are so annoying in cellar or
kitchen; cayenne pepper will have the
same effect on rats and cockroaches
and mouse will never gnaw throug b =
piece of cotton sprinkled with cayenne
that is stuffed into his hole.
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