The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-30
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

made by adding spirits OF ammonia,
little at time, to sweet oil, and shak-
ing it well till the mixture looks soapy.
Keep we'll corked.
"A physician is quoted as saying
that he always has boiled onions for
dinner FIR the benefit of his children.
mo worms, no scarlatina, no diph-
liberia, where children eat plentifully
of onions every day."
There is good deal of satisfaction
to be gotten out of the family account
book. 1t is a multiplication of the
pleasure of the wage-earner finds in the
constant and careful squaring of his or
her small accounts-a pleasure every
woman-worker ought to know.
-Soap-suds are better than water for
washing purposes, because the soap
forms chemical combination with the
greasy matters present, and renders
them soluble in water Without this
help, the water could not dissolve
them.
Soda should always be dissolved in
a cold INDEPENDENTLY waterloo
cause dissolving it in hot water causes
an effervescence, and the immediate
liberation of the carbonic acid gas.
Dissolving in cold water preserves all
of its Tightening" power.
Drink for an invalid: Beat well the
yelk of one egg, place it in glass, add
white sugar and lemon or vanilla to
taste; fill up the glass with milk. Take
the white of an egg and beat to a stiff
froth and add sugar and favoring.
Place on the top of the glass.
Potato Gems.-Three or four cup
fuls of mashed potatoes, one cupful of
milk, in which dissolve half teaspoon
full of butter and the same of salt; stir
well with two beaten eggs; then drop
in well-buttered gem pans, with a little
-four sprinkled over the top, and put in
a hot oven till nicely Drowned.
Mothers, if your children have no
other education, you can at least teach
them to be cheerful by example, it will
be of more benefit to them than the
finest education without it. Don't let
them find fault and complain; teach
them from the beginning the best of all
good habits -cheerfulness. Rural New
Yorker.
The troubleso'0e red spider on
house plants can be conquered by fire.
quent sprinkling of the leaves with a
fine syringe. The scale insect is van
ished by brushing the stems with an
old toothbrush dipped in soap-suds; he
is apt to be troublesome upon the
orange and oleander trees. Mealy bug
is disposed of in the same way.
TO wash draperies or curtains OF
art muslin successfully lay them in
cold water to soak out the worst of the
dirt; then wash in tepid water with
good soap, but no soda; rinse through
cold water with little salt if the
colors are not perfectly fast, and dry
quickly; fold before they are quite dry
and iron lightly with a not too hot
iron.
Let the sunshine enter your home,
and it will bring radiance and cheer
and vigor and good health. It is
purifier, warding off mold. moisture,
gloom, depression and disease. 1t
should be admitted to every apartment
of the house and made welcome at all
times. 1t is strong preventive to the
disorders that visit shaded and musty
places 1t brings health and happiness
that can not be obtained from any 9TH
er source.
Caramel Cream. on the fire
in a pan one pound of maple sugar; let
| it boil two or three times, sufficient to
| brown but not to burn il. Beat six
eggs and one pound of white sugar very
light; stir this into two quarts of boil
ing milk, and stir constantly until it
comes to a boil; then pour in the boil
ing sugar, and mix thoroughly. When
| perfectly cold, add one quart of cream,
sweetened with cupful of white SUI
gar Put it in freezer and freeze the
same as ice-cream.
| Manufacturers Of kerosene oil say
that all lamps are safe with good oil,
and that the quality of oil can be ascer-
tanned by the following test: Take a
pint tin cup, fill it nearly full of water
warmed so that an ordinary thermom-
eter immersed in it will show one hum
dred and twenty degrees, pour small
quantity of oil on the water, stir it a
little, then pass a lighted match over
the surface of the oil once. If it ignites
the Oil is unsafe If purchases be
] made of from three to five gallons at a
time, and this test be made. people can
protect themselves. Housewife.