Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-08
HOME MATTERS,
Everyday Hints and Suggestions to
Practical Housewives.

AGARGLE OF Hot BOILED MILK is recon-
mended for cough or sore throat
CARROTS AND TURNIPs should boil fortv-fiye
minutes when young; one hour in winter
GRAINED WOODS should be washed in cold
tea and then after being wiped dry rubbed
with lnseed oil.
SILVER CAN BE KEPT BRIGHT FOR MONTHS by
being placed in an air-tight case with good
sized piece of camphor.
BIscUITs CAN BE WARNED to be as good as
| when just baked by placing them in the oven
dry, covered closely with a tin.
If ONE WISHES TO CooI. Hot Dish in a
hurry it will be found that if the dish be placed
in vessel Full of cold, salty water it will cool
far more rapidly than if it stood in water free
| from salt.
BOILING Hor LIQUID may be safely poured
into glass jar or tumbler by first putting sill
yer spoon in the vessel. Be careful, however,
that a draft OF cold air does not strike the YES
| sci while hot.
DELIcATELY CoLoRED Goops of any kind
should never be washed without a salt water
bath first, but care should be exercised in ref
| erenee to materials which are likely to shrink
when immersed in water.
IT is Nor ALWAYS EASY to start fruit lar
cover. Instead of wrenching your hands and
bringing on blisters simply invert the jar and
place the top III hot water for minute. Then
try it and you will find it turns quite easily.l
SILK MUsr NEVER BE IRoNED, as the heat
takes all the life out of it and makes it seem
stringy and fiabby. If, however. you wish to
press out old bits of silk and ribbon for fancy
work, use an iron only moderately hot and
place two thicknesses OF paper between that and
the silk.
SHOES That ARE WORN REGULARLY, if cared
for will lasf p,ucb lopoar than ,a,lao@oa
When shoes are taken of they should be wiped
with soft cloth, and, after airing little while,
oiled or polished and put in a box by them
selves or a shoe bag.
To PREPARE DZvILED CRABS boil a number
OF crabs and after carefully picking the mea.
add cracker or bread crumbs in the proportion
of one tablespoonful of crumbs to two of the
picked crabs. Season sharply with salt, black
pepper, cayenne and mustard; add large lump
81 fresh outter. Beat an egg, white and yelk
together. and add to it enough fresh milk or
cream to moisten the crab and bread crumb
forcemeat Fill the upper crab shell with this
mixture and dust with crumbs, dot with bits of
butter and brown quickly in hot oven.
CARyAFrs.-Take some cold cooked ham and
chop it fine, season with pepper. Put a table
spoonful OF butter and an even tablespoonful
of flour in sauce pan, mix and add q gill of
cream, stir continually until Il boiIs. take IL
from the fire, add the well-beaten yelks of four
eggs and a half pint of chopped ham. Put this
into buttered cups, stand them in a baking pan
half filed with hot water, cover with paper and
cook in the oven for twenty minutes. Serve
with cream sauce.
DoS'r PAINT FLowxR Pors, because the more
porous the pot is the better, and paint fills the
pores and keeps out the air and keeps the water
in. The chief cause of failure in growing
hanging plants 10 they are not given sufficient
amount Of water because, perhaps, il ID rather
dificult to get at them. The best plan Is to put
them In tub or sink and sprinkle them until
the soil il thoroughly wet