Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-16
HOME MATTERS.
Everyday Hints and Seasonable Sug-
gestiOns to Practical Housekeepers.

HOME MATTERS.
Everyday Hints and Seasonable Sug-
gestions to Practical Housekeepers.
Two DKssERTsPooyFULs of liquid or four tea
spoonfuls make one tablespoonful
To BRIGHTEN CARPETS wipe them with warm
water in which has been poured few drops Of
/ ammonia.
TURPESTISE AND BLACK yARSIsH is the black
ing used by hardware dealers for protecting
stoves from rust IL put on properly 1t will last
through the season.
PUT FRENCH CHALK on MAaNEsrA ON SILK or
ribbon that has become greasy and hold IL near
the fire. This will absorb the grease 80 il may
be brushed of.
IRON RUST MAY BE REMOVED FROM MARBLE by
taking one part of nitric acid to twenty live
parts of water and applying IL carefully to the
spots. Rinse off with ammonia and water.
A SIMPLE CoUGH REMEDY is made Of an ounce
of faxseed boiled IN a pint Of water, a little
honey added, an ounce of rock candy and the
juice OF three lemons, the whole mixed and
boiled we'll
A SIMPLE AND EFFEcTUAL REMEDY FOR Ivy
POISONING is said to be sweet spirits Of nitre.
Battle affected parts two or three times during
the day and the next morning little trace Of
the poison will remain.
GLUE FOR ATTACHING LEATHER TO IRON
may be made by adding about 5 per cent Of
glycerine to good glue. and just before using
add per cent extract of oak bark or fannie
acid. Use thick and hot.
For WASHING FINE NICE FIASyELs, nothing
will cause them to look so nice as borax in the
water, tablespoonful OF borax to q pail of
water being the right proportion. Always
wash baby's little flannel skirts, shirts, &C., in
this
LEMON DUMPLISas. one quart -four.
one cup milk, shortening the size of walnut
two teaspoons baking powder. Sauce for
above: One lemon, one cup sugar, one cup mo-
lasscs, one-half cup butter, one cup warm
water. Let it come to a boil and put in dump
lings and boil.
THIS Is THE WAY THEY CLEAN AND RENovATE
! FURs i'll Russia Some rye flour is put into a
pan upon the stove and heated. stirring con-
stanty with the hand SO long as the heat can
be borne. Then spread the -four all over the
fur, rubbing 1t in well; then brush 10 gently
with very clean brush beat 1t softly till all
the flour is removed. 1t il claimed that this
method will make the fur appear almost or
quite like new.
AMBER SoUP.-Take q knuckle of veal, q car
rot, an onion, u small turnip. simmer slowly
for nine hours the day before wanted for use
Strain and let stand over night. Remove every
| particle of fat. Have cup Of tapioca soak d
! over night Take two quarts of the stock made
! the day before, add the tapiocs and cook slo WY
| for an hour. Salt to taste. Add celery or thyme
! II desired. Just before serving add a cup OF
sweet cream.
WAX DISAPPEARS If, after saturating with
benzne or turpentine, it is covered with folded
blotting paper and hot fat iron put upon it.
| Parafne is removed by boiling water or hot
| rms bv oil IN lip oil
| In combination with not water; chloride OF
| gold or silver spots to weak solution OF cor
rosive subima,e or cyanide OF potassium but
all of these agents are deadly poisons. Sealing
wax is dissolved by hot spirits and then rubbed
! of with ossia sepia; india ink is slightly
| brushed over with oil. and after twelve hours.
with saponified samiac; any particles Of color
still remaining must be removed with rubber
CEMENT Which WILL ADHERE PERFECTLY to
! glazed surfaces. repair broken minerals, or in
fact stick to anything, is made by taking two
ounces of clear gum arabic. IL ounces Of fine
staIoh, n ounce OF white sugar. PulveriZe the
| gum arabic. and dissolve it in as much water
as the laundress would use for the quantity OF
the starch indicated. Dissolve the starch and
sugar IN the gum solution Then cook the
mixture in u vessel suspended in boiling water
until the starch becomes clear. The cemen,
should be as thick as tar, and kept so. 1t can
| be kept from spelling by dropping in O lump
OF gum camphor or little oil of cloves or sas-
safras.
| To TRANSFER PRrNrs TO GLASS, first coat the
glass with damar varnish or Canada balsan
dissolved in an equal volume Of turpentine
and let it dry until il is very sticky, which
| takes half q day more. The printed paper I,
be transferred should be well soaked in soft
! water, and carefully laid upon the prepared
glass after removing the surplus water with
| blottlng paper, and pressed upon il, SO that nc
I wat md
meath. This should dry a whole day before i
Is touched; theE, with wetted fingers, begin t.
rub on the paper at the back. II this be skill
| fully done, almost the whole Of tho paper car
be removed, leaving simply the ink upon ths
varnlsh. When the paper has been removed
another coat of varnish will serve to mako the
whole more transparent
USE FOR OLD PAPERs.-Newspaper are in
valuable for packing away the winter clothing
the printing ink acting as q defiance to tn,
stoutest moth as successfully as camphor O.
tar paper. For this reason newspapers ar,
useful under the carpet, laid over the rsgula
carpet paper. The most valuable quality O
newspapers in the kitchen, however, 10 thei
ability to keep out the air. 1t Is said that ic
completely enveioped In newspapers, so tina
all air Is shut out, will keep longer time thar
under other conditions, and that pitcher o
ice water laid in newspaper with the ends O
the paper twisted together to exclude the air
will remain all night in any summer room
with scarcely any perceptible melting Of tn
ice. These facts, II such, should be utilize,
oftener than they are in the care OF the sick a
night In freezing ice cream. when tho ice
scarce, pack the freezer only three-quartor
full of ice and salt, and finish with newspapers
and the difference In the time OF freezing an
quality OF the cream Is not perceptible from
the result when the freezer IL packed full o
ice. After removing the dasher Il il better 4
cork up the cream and cover it tightly with
packing Of newspapers than to use moro ice
The newspaper retains the cold already in th
ice better than a packing OF cracked ice an
salt. which must have crevices to admit tn
I air