Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-03-28
UsEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

Milk, cream and butter all absorb
strong doors very readily. and should
therefore be kept in a cool, sweet room
or on ice.
If dish gets burnt in using, do
not scrape it; put little water and
ashes in it and let it get warm. 1t will
come off nicely.
If child is suffering from earache,
lay upon the ear a flannel bag, stuffed
with hops and wrung from hot vinegar.
1t will speedily effect a cure.-The
Housewife.
When your stove is burned red,
and your backing won't stick to it, put
little fat fried from salt pork into the
water you dissolve your backing in,
and try again.
Clean knives with a soft flannel and
Bath brick. If rusty, use wood ashes,
rubbed on with a newly cut bit of Irish
potato. This will remove spots when
nothing else will.
The makers of some of the most
popular brands of apple butter uso
twenty-five pounds Of sugar to five
bushels. of apples and season with one
and half pounds Of cinnamon.
Fat from mutton, lamb. geese, tur-
key or ducks will give an unpleasant
flavor to any thing with which it is
used. says Miss Parloa, and the best
place for it is with the soap grease.
-Molasscs Puffs. -One cup of sugar,
half cup of butter, one cup of molasscs,
one egg, one teaspoonful Of ginger, one
teaspoonful soda, one cup hot water,
four cups Of flour, and pinch of salt.
Remove dust from q silk dress af-
ter wearing it by rubbing lightly with
piece Of soft flannel Use white flan-
mel for light silks. A BRUSH, unless OF
tho very finest kind, should never touch
silk.
For consumptivcs. sardines, rich in
oil, small bones and all, is u rich, we'll
selected form of food-if it will not
prove unacceptable TO tho stomach,
which in such cases, is often an irrita-
bic member.
Household ammonia will be found
an excellent fertilizer for plants grown
i'll the window, especially roses; it adds
Il new beauty TO the foliage and forces
the growth of the plant wonderfully.
Use in the proportion Of q tablespoon
full OF tho ammonia to quart Of water.
A paper weight Offering many adj
Vanta%c5 can be made by filling q stout
~ stitched channels skin bag, two inches
broad by four inches long, with bird
shot. 1t is heavy, will not tear any
paper, or make indcntations, and
adapts itself easily TO irregularities of
surface.
TO boil pudding in bag, dip tho
bag i'll hot water and rub tho inside
with flour bCforo putting in the pud-
ding when done dip tho bag in cold
water and tho pudding will turn out
easily. Always put plato on the bot
tom Of the kettle TO keep the pudding
from burning.
1t is a common occurrence for chill
dren to get beans, grains of corn and
other foreign substances up their noses.
This simple remedy is worth rcmcm-
boring. Get the child to open its
mouth, apply your mouth over it and
blow hard. The offending substance
will be expelled from lis nose.
Angel Cocoanut Cake. Two CUPS
of sugar, half IL cup Of butter, three of
-four, one tcaspoonGul of baking pow
der, whites OF eight eggs. and half
cup of milk. Flavor with vanilla.
Bake in jelly cake pans. Spread the
top Of each with thick icing, then the
bottom; let dry and sprinkle thiclzly
with cocoanut. Ice all over and sprin-
klo with cOcoanut.
An excellent wash for this dis
agreeable affection is an ounce each of
rose water and glycerine, with six
drops OF carbolic acid. Whonever the
hands are washed, after drying them
apply Il few drops of tho mixture and
rub it in well. While IL may not Who'll
ly prevent chapping it will greatly al
lcviate it. 1t may also be used for the
face with IMMUNITY.
Baked rice and tomatoes make q
very appo'izing hot dish. Boil
COffCc-cupful of rice: when cooked