Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-31
HOME MATTERS.
sRAsoSAnLH SUGGESTIONS ron PRACTICAL HOUSE
KEEPxns-RKcrPxs WORTH CLIPPING AND PUT
TrSa AwAr-HISTs ron THE DINING Roox,
KITCHEN AND PANTRY.

To PREVENT Flies FROM SporIxo Gur
FRAMES and fittings, brush them with camers
hair brush wet in water in which onions have
been boiled.
A FEW DRoPs OF AMMONIA in . cup OF warm
rain water, carefully applied with wet sponge,
will remove the spots from paintings and chro-
mos.
Pun TEA AND COFFEE AWAY in air-tight recep-
tacles as soon as they are brought to the house.
They lose much Of their flavor by standing un-
covered.
IT Is A Coon PLAN TO Go OVER TIE BEDsrrADs
before beginning any Of the cleaning. as delay
In these days when the sun has become strong
Is apt to increase the trouble there.
PLASTER BUsTs AND SrArUErrEs MAY BE
CLEASED, when il is not desired to paint them,
by dipping them into thick liquid starch and
drying; and when the starch is brushed of the
art Is brushed of with il.
MOTHS ARE VERY DESTRUCTIVE to the cloth
and felt used in a piano, aud may be kept out
OF it by placing lump OF camphor, wrapped in
soft paper, in the inside corner. care being
taken to renew it from time to time.
chill SAUcE.-Twelve tomatoes, peeled and
chopped fine, six peppers, one large onion, one
cup OF cider vinegar. three large spoonfuls of
sugar, one large spoonful Of salt and one table,
spoonful each OF cinnamon, cloves and all
spice.
ALL Know How Soon CHEESE dries up and is
unit for the table, but this same waste cheese
can be made as good as new and very nice
looking, by grating it fine on a horse -radish
Crater. Prepare only as much as is needed for
immediate use, and il will be found good
enough for anybody.
Drowned HAsBKD PoTAroEs.-Pare six good
sized potatoes and chop them fine, put them in
baking dish, Just cover with milk, cut a table
spoonful of butter and put over the top. season
with teaspoonful of salt and salt spoonful of
black pepper, bake in a quick oven thirty-ive
minutes.
POWDERED BoRAx MIXED WITH A LITTLE
POWDERED SUGAR and scattered about in spots
will prove certain death to cockroaches and to
ants and if that is not handy a few drops of
spirits of turpentine sprinkled here and there
will be as effective in the case of these nuis-
ances as it is in the case Of moths.
WHEN LINEN Has TURNED YELLOW cut I'D
pound OF fine white soap into gallon of milk
and hang it over fire in a wash kettle or boiler.
When the soap has completely melted put in
the linen and boil it half an hour, have ready
lather OF soap and water, wash the linen in il,
after which rinse in two cold waters with very
little blue in the last.
New BEDFORD MASS WOMAN REPORTS a
new and, it is claimed, a successful cure for
diphtheria. little nephew of hers was sick
with the disease and the child's mother was told
to give him a tea made from the bark of the
root Of white birch. She did so and the white
coating OF the throat and mouth began rapidly
to loosen and come off, an entire recovery fol-
lowing. The tea may be used as a drink or a
gargle, or held in the mouth.
II is SAID THAT A PIECE OF CLOTH sAruR-
ATED WITH TURPENTINE hung in a closet where
there are moths or in a room where flies are
troublesome will kill the moth-miller and Danish
the ries. Twenty drops of carbolic acid evap-
GRATED from a hot shovel will 60 far to Danish
flies from a room, while a bit of camphor gum
the size Of a walnut held over lamp till it is
consumed will do the same for the active mos
quito.
ONE CAN HAVE NICE GLASS OF SODA WATER
at home any hot evening. Thus: Put into a
cool glass four or five tablespoonfuls Of fruit
jelly (plum or cherry is very nice), then dis
solve twenty grains of tartaric acid in half
glass of jelly. Next dissolve twenty five grains
OF common soda in half glass of cool water and
pour into the glass containing the other ingre-
dients, and over it will come, effervescing as
lively as could be wished.
LAMP CHMNEYs SHOULD NEVER BE WASHED
in soapsuds or clear water. If q cloth wet with
alcohol was used for this purpose, or what is
much cheaper and always at hand, kerosene
the manufacture and sale of lamp chimneys. 1t
is really surprising how seldom chimneys will
break and what a fine polish will be given
them by cleansing in kerosene or alcohol
PoAcHED Eeos In PUFF PAsrE.-Poach four
to six eggs, trim and let them get quite cold
Prepare the following mixture: A teaspoonful
of anchovy paste, worked smoothly into some
thick double cream, as much cayenne will
lie on the top Of a fve-cent piece, and squeeze
Of lemon juice, added slowly, so not to curdle
| the cream. Work the ingredients into the cream
mixture, inclose each egg. with some of the
cream mixture, In q small cover Of puff paste.
Bake in quick over.
SAUCE PIoUANTE.-Pound together in a NOR
tar tablespoonful Of capers and tablespoon
full of parsley; then a tablespoonful Of freshly
made mustard and the yelks of three hard
boiled eggs; pound these until they are prop
erly mixed; wash, bone and force through a
sieve half dozen anchovies; to this add
tablespoonful Of vinegar, two or olive OIL q
shalot chopped very fine; add these to the
former ingredients. and when about to be used
stir them all into half pint Of drawn butter
or strong beef gravy.
A DELICIOUS DEsERr.-Sponge cream fur
nishes very delicate and easily made dessert.
The ingredients are: One pint of fresh milk,
three tablespoonfuls Of Cox's gelatine, three
tablespoonfuls Of sugar, three eggs. Put gela-
tine into cold milk, let it stand a little while;
put on stove and bring milk to boiling point;
then add the sugar and yelks of eggs, which
have been well beaten together Remove from
the fire and stir in the whites which have also
been beaten stiff. Add a little salt and flavor
to suit and pour into molds; wet first, SO the
cream viii turn out easily.
To KEEP Ice IN THE SICK ROOM, cut piece of
flannel about nine inches square and secure it
by igature about the mouth of an ordinary
tumbler, SO as to leave the cup-shape depression
of flannel within the tumbler to about half its
depth. In the flannel cup SO formed pieces of
ice may be preserved many hours, all the longer
if a piece of flannel from four to five inches
square be used as q loose cover to the ice cup
Cheap flannel with comparatively open meshes
is preferable, as the water easily drains through
it and the ice is kept quite dry.
To CRYsTALLIzE PEAcHEs.-Take the yellow
cling, pare and cut them in half to free them
from the stone. To six pounds Of fruit allow
two pounds Of sifted sugar, for the sprinkling.
Make a strip of three-quarters Of q pound Of
sugar and little water; when il becomes hot
put in the peaches. Let them remain cooking
until quite clear, but not to getred Take them
carefully out, spread them on Q broad dish and
set them in the sun to dry. A light mosquito
netting viii keep on the insects. Strew some
Of the fine sugar over them, not too much at a
time, Is it would draw out the strip too fast.
II strip does form you must remove the
peaches to q dry dish. When they begin to
look dry strew some more, and when they have
became quite dry place them In jars, with Q