The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Hints for the Home.

Potatoes should be peeled as thin
~ as possible, as the better part lies
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 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 a trihe of olive oil every
night for time; if too oily, put a
little borax in the water used foS
bathing.
One can CRATE horseradish without
very badly affecting the eyes, by
grating it in front of the fire. Open
the front stove doors. Onions can
lie peeled in the same way.
One of the striking features of the
moment is the almost unmitigated
fatness of the backs of some of the
elegant imported costumes just re-
ceived from both London and Paris.
FROZEN CAKE-Make a plain cup
cake. Make quart of frozen GUS
tard. When ready to serve, take
the center out of the cake, fill the
space with the frozen custard, cover
the cake with the top, pack in ice for
halt an hour.
VINEGAR P1E.-For one 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 with one crust.
Orange and copper colored trim
mings are in great vogue abroad,
and a great deal ofhandsome ribbon
is used in most capricious ways.
The new sash ribbons are delicious
works of art.
To copy printed matter on any
absorbent paper, dampen the surface
with weak solution of acetate of
iron; and press in an ordinary copy
ing press.
For a good tooth powder, mix to-
gether one ounce of powdered oris
root, one drachm gum camphor, two
drachms of powdered myrrh, and
half an ounce prepared chalk.
Some prefer treating the hands.
neck and the face to an ointment OF
glycerine, rubbed dry with cham
OILS skin. This is said to be attend
ed with the most satisfactory re-
suits.
A house can be rid of cockroaches
by putting fresh California bnhach
through the rooms infested every
evening before going to bed for a
week. This is completely satisfac-
tory method.
Every thing is 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 per-
son becomes strong or weak.
Spirits ofammonia is the best thing
to clean hair-brushes with, as it does
not soften the bristles like soap or
soda. If a teaspoonful of ammonia
is mixed with q quart of water the
brush need only be dipped in the So
luton for a moment and all grease
is removed. The brush should then
be rinsed in cold water, shaken we'll
and dried in the air, but not in the
sun.
Nothing is much better than a
piece of chamois skin for cleaning the
tips and sides of patent leather on
shoes, and it can be done in a few
minutes. By the way, a banana
skin will clean a shoe or boot very
nicely in the absence of blacking and
shoe polish. 1t was tried with great
success by q traveller who happened