Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-08
HOME MATTERS.
Household Hints and Seasonable Sug-
gestions to Practical House Keepers.


PIECE OF SPONGE fastened to a stick is a
good thing with which to clean lamp chin
neys.
VIOLET, ROSE AND ORANGE blossom leaves
are frozen in ice cream of delicate flavor.
On CLOTHS WILL LAST LONGER if one or two
layers of wadded carpet lining are laid under
them.
Pound OF SUGAR is one pint, an ounce Of
any liquid is two tablespoonfuls and pint of
liquid weighs sixteen ounces.
Try KEEPING CRANBERRIEs FRESH by putting
them in cold water containing piece of char
coal. Change the water occasionally.
WHEN Your SITTER BECOMES CLoGGED with
-four or meal sft some hot ashes through it; you
will be surprised to see how nicely 1t is cleaned
The CLEAR JUICE OF THE PINEAPPLE is now
considered by some physicians to be the best
remedy for diptheretic sore throat and even
for diphtheria.
WASH TRAY COVERS, &C., that are embroid-
cred in colors in cold water with borax. Rinse
them well in cold water, do not sprinkle or roll
up. but iron them while they are still slightly
damp from the line.
LEMON JUICE will whiten frosting, cranberry
juice will color it pink and the grated rind of
an orange strained through cloth will color it
yellow, Grated chocolate is best for coloring
it brown.
SIMPLE MEANS OF CHANGING THE AIR of a
sick room is to open a window at the top and
opening the door, move it backward and for
ward rapidly, SO as to insure a current Of fresh
air from the window
WHEN THE SKIN Is BRUISED it may be pre-
vented from becoming discolored by using a
little dry starch or arrowroot merely moistened
with cold water and placed on the injured
part. This should be done at once.
If BLACK DRESSES HAVE BEEN STAINED boil
handful OF fg leaves in quart Of water and
reduce 1t to apint A sponge dipped in this
hquld and rubbed upon them is said entirely
to remove stains from grapes, bombazines, &c.
To KEEP PIE CRUsTs FROM CRuMBLINa-
When your pies with upper crusts are ready to
put in the oven to bake take a little sweet milk
in cup and with a bit Of clean cloth wet the
upper crust and rim. When baked it will pre-
sent shiny surface and will not flake off.
NOTHING CAN BE DONE WITH SILK to remove
the rain spots. Rain or water drops are fatal
to some of the silk mixtures and to the usual
thin summer silks. Louisines and some of the
surahs do not spot, but it depends greatly on
the color. Never use very hot iron in press
ing silk. The plaid India silks can be washed.
usually, as safely as cottons.
To CANDY ORANGE OR LEMON PEEL-Drop
the skins as you accumulate them into cold
water, keeping them under it by plate. Boil
them until they are tender and can easily be
pierced with splinter of wood. Dram and
lay them IN cold water Immediately. Put a
half pint OF water to pound of sugar; cook
the skins In 1t until the strip looks very thick ;
Int them out on a plate to dry and sprinkle
powdered sugar over them before they are
quite cold.
The FOLLOWING SIMPLE TREATMENT has been
found excellent for cold in the head. Put o.
teaspoonful of powdered camphor in q cone
shaped vessel filed with boiling water and
covered with cornucopia, the top Of which is
then torn off just enough to admit the nose and
lnhaie the warm camphor vapor for ten to
hfteen minutes. repetition If this procedure
after four OF i've hours will generally suffice to
effect a cure.
FISH CRooUErrEs vERY DELicIous. MASH
| some baked potatoes with butter. cream Cor
milk and one egg, whipped to froth, roll the
paste out to moderate thickness, chop up
| eight to ten boned sardines 1.-TWO for each
| croquette), cook them in the following sauce:
Two ounces OF butter, one teaspoonful of curry
powder q little chopped onion and squeeze
| OF lemon juice. Make tHrnovers of the potato
paste, fill them with the mixture and bake in a
| brisk oven.
To REMOVE EFFECTS OF RAIN Dnops FaoM
VELVET steam the velvet and beat it, while dry
ing, with whalebone on the under side of the
| coat This should make the pile of the velvet
RISE Use the often-explained device of the hot
iron, bound with q vet cloth, firmly held by one
person, Nat side uppermost, while another
passes the spotted surface several times over
the steam. 1t must be quickly done and
promptly beaten" while being held in the hot
air of heater or before a coal fire to dry. Beat
from the back Of the coat only.
COPING TISSUE PArrERS.-Any one who
has struggled with the task of taking off, !" as
they express it, tissue pattern will agree that
| 1t Is about as tiresome q thing as falls to a
woman's lot. A little ingenuity will save hours
OF worry. Let the material upon which you
| lay your pattern be either black or brown cam
brio. Then call into use your powder puff, in
stead OF chalk pencil and deal Of patience.
A few hrm dabs and you have transferred to
your goods perfect copy Of the innumerable
small holes that go to make up the major part
OF paper pattern and desperate bsckache.
The man that swesrs of Is gloomy for a
while, but 1t is not long before he begius to
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