New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-23
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Hints for the Home.

nearest the skin.
Kaolin, or potter's clay rubbed in
them, will take grease spots out Of
the most delicate colored silks with
out injuring them
Chocolate icing can be and is better
made with yolks of eggs instead OF
whites; making a softer icing, dispos-
ing OF tie yolks Of the eggs.
All scraps of fried or boiled ham.
chopped fine and mixed with salad
dressing, make excellent sandwiches
for tea, picnics or Sunday dinners.
If the face seems constantly dry,
rub it with d trihe Of olive oil every
night for a time; if too oily, put a
little borax in the water used for
bathing.
One cam CRATE horseradish without
very badly affecting the eyes, by
grating it in 'front.' of the fire. Open
the front stove doors. Onions can
he peeled in the same way.
One of the striking features of the
moment is the almost unmitigated
fatness ofthe backs of some of the
elegant imported costumes just re-
ceived from beth London and Paris.
FROZEN CAgE.-Make a plain cup
cake. Make a quart of frozen GUS
tard. When ready to serve, take
the center cut of the cake, It'll the
/ space,with the frozen custard, cover
the cake with the top, pack in ice for
halt an'hour.
VINEGAR P1E.-Forone pie take
one teacupful each of white sugar
and cold water, the yolks oftwo eggs
well beaten, one tablespoonful -four
or corn.starch, and one tablespoon
full Of vinegar. Flavor with lemon.
bake WaTn one crust.
Orange and copper colored trim
mings are in great vogue abroad,
and asgreat deal ofhandsome ribbon
is used in most capricious ways.
The new sash ribbons are delicious
workssof art.
To reopy printed matter on any
absorbent paper, daanpen the surface
with e. weak solution of acetate OF
iron; and press in az ordinary copy
ing press.
For a good tooth powder, mix to-
gether one ounce of powdered oris
root, zone drachm gum camphor, two
drachms OF powdered myrrh, and
half an ounce prepared chalk.
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Some prefer treating the hands,
neck and the face to an ointment OF
glycerine, rubbed dry with a cham
OILS skin. This is said to be attend
ed with the most satisfactory re-
suits.
A house can he rid of cockroaehes
by putting fresh California bnhach
through the rooms infested every
evening before going to bed for a
week. This is.a completely satisfac-
tory method.
Every thing lis possible with health,
nothing is possible withontit. Each
one is given a certain degree OF
health. As THAT health is guarded
and nourished, the work of that Eer-
son becomes STRONG Or weak.
Spirits ofamm0nia is the best thing
to clean brushes with, as it does
not soften the bristles like soap or
soda. If a teaspoonful of ammonia
is mixed with quart of water the
brush need only be dipped in the So
luton for moment and all grease
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be rinsed in cold water, shaken well
and dried in the air, but not in the
sun.
Nothing is much better than O
piece of channels skin for cleaning the
tips and sides of patent leather on
shoes, and it can be done in few
minutes. By the way, banana
skin will clean a shoe or boot very
nicely in the absence ofbIacking and
shoe polish. It.was tried with great
success, by traveller who happened
to lose his satchel and find himself
where he could not replace any OF
his conveniences for the toilet.
To make white geranium perfume
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