The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-06
HOME MATTERS.

TONS for Practical Housewives.
To freshen salt fish soak them 10 sour
milk.
Beets should be boiled one hour in
summer; one hour and half, or even
two hours, if large, in winter.
Apples will not freeze il covered with
linen cloth, nor pie or custard burn
ii in the oven with dish Of water.
When several cups Of tea. of equal
strength are wanted pour little into
each cup and then fill in inverse order.
The tea first poured from the pot is the
weakest OF the dccoction. be
All vegetables should 90 into fast boil
ing water, to be quickly brought to the
boiling point again, not left to steep in
the hot water before boiling, which
ioughens them aud destroys color and
flavor.
There is nothing that removes impuri.
ties from floors, &c., 80 rapidly as boiling
rot soda and water, applied with a long
lndled scrubhiny brush and rinsed oil
once with clear water and dried with n
clean cloth.
Remedy for Poison-A dessert spoon
full OF made mustard mixed in tulnblrr
OF warm water, il drank Immediately, is
simple but efficient remedy for poison.
Flaxseed Syrup for Colds-Boil flax
seed until water becomes slimy, then
strain, sweeten with powdered rock
candy and juice of fresh lemons. Dose,
wineglassful when cough is trouble.
some.
When the skin is bruised it may be
prevented from becoming discolored by
using 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
a handful OF fig leaves in quart OF water
aud reduce it to pint. A sponge dip.
ped in this liquid and rubbed upon them
will entirely remove stains from grapes
bombazines, etc.
No matter how large the spot OF oil
any carpet or wooden stuff can be clean
cd by applying buckwheat plentifully
and carefully brushing it into'a dust par
after short time and putting on fresh
until the oil has disappeared.
To keep pie crusts from crumbling,-
When your pies with upper crusts are
ready to put in the oven 10 bake take {
little sweet milk in cup and with bi
i OF clean cloth wet. the upper crust anG
rim. When baked it will present
shiny surface aud will not fake of. :
Meal time should always be regulated
| by the hour ut which the meal will b,
done. II the meal should have to wal
five minutes for the vegetables there viii
be y loss of punctuality, but the Dime
will not BIZ damaged; but il the vegeta
bles are done and wait for the meat, tn
dinner will certainly be so much tn
worse. $50 I'D
Housc.keepers will fud the iollowin
receipt for cleaning paint useful: To
pound OF soap and hulfa pound OF pulyel
lied pumice stone add an equal uuautil
OF pear ash and mix with hot water int
a thin paste. With an ordinary pain
brush lay on the mixture over the pain
which requires cleaning, and in tiy
minutes wash it of with boiling watel
Canaries are often iamished for fires
cool water. You see bits OF sugar an
sponge cake and cracker tucked all abou
the wires, while the drinking cup wi
BIZ empty or filled with dirty water tbs
no bird with respect for itself wi
touch. Have bath tub. too, that
large enough to spread its wings an
splash.
Ink stains can DO taken out OF carpetl
rugs and other wooden goods il swes
milk is applied to the soiled place
directly. First lay y sheet OF blottin
paper over the place to soak up the inl
then with piece Of cotton batting was
|, oil the place with milk, changing tn
batting for a clean piece as soon as
becomes much soiled. Continue tn
until the ink no longer shows, the
: wash off with hot suds, rinse with clea
warm water and rub dry with clea
cloth.