Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27
HOME MATTERS.
SeasOnable Suggestions and Everyday Hints
to Practical Housekeepers.

DISSOLVE SMALL PIECE OF ALUM in the salt
and water in which cucumbers are soaked.
For BILIOUS COLO, soda and ginger in hot
water. 1t may be taken freely and as often as
necessary.
To REMOVE TAR rub thoroughly with clean
lard and wash with soap and warm water.
BENT WHALEBoNEs CAN BE RESTORED and
used again by simply soaking in water few
hours and then drying them.
Brass UTENSILS may be kept beautifully
bright by an occasional rub with sait and
vinegar.
Battle THE LIPS OCCASIONALLY with a little
alum water, followed by little camphor ice or
g., -"ri;:'.
WHEN WASHING FINE WHITE FLANNR1e. add
| tablespoonful Of pulverized borax to a pailful
OF water. This will keep them soft and white.
TAKE Two LARGE SPooLs, drive large nails
through them in the wall, about two inches
apart and hang your broom up, brush end up.
NEVER LET THE SUNS RAYS strike mirror.
1t acts upon the mercury and makes the glass
cloudy. which all the rubbing in the world will
not remove.
sLEEpLEssNEss CAUSED BY Too Much BLOOD
in the head may be overcome by applying q
cloth wet with cold water to the back of the
neck.
AMMONIA APPLIED Two OR THREE TIMES on
| a fresh cold sore will kill it, It will drivs it
| away If used when the cold sore is first fell.
WASH WHITE SILK HANDEERCHIEFs in tepid
| water with castile-soap suds and press when
cold and nearly dry. To iron them out of hot
water turns them yellow.
If PAINT HAS BEEN SCATTERED on window
panes wet the spots with water and rub thor
Oughly with new silver dollar or they NAV be
| washed with hot, sharp vinegar.
II
bath is the next best thing to an ocean Dip"
and gargle of weak solution is good and
| ever ready remedy for sore throat
To MAKE WATERPROOF WRITING INK. an ink
which will not blur if the writing is exposed to
| rain, dissolve two ounces shelac in one pint
alcohol COS per cent?, filter through chalk and
mix with best lampbiack.
To MAKE BoRAx SOAP that is excellent cut
an ordinary bar Of soap in small pieces, put it
in one quart Of boiling water and add one
ounce of borax. Let it all melt but not boil.
When cold cut in pieces and use like common
! soap. This is especially useful for washing
and requires very little time.
HAsTY MuFFISs.- Two cups -four, two eggs.
one tablespoonful mixed butter and lard. two
teaspoonfuls white sugar, one teaspoonful bak-
ing powder, saltspoonful salt, one cup Of milk.
into the eggs, beaten very light stir the melted
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| well mixed with the salt and baking powder.
Stir well and bake in thoroughly creased tins.
To SEND BOILED RICE TO THE TABLE in the
best condition soak it for seven or eight
hours in cold water to which a little salt has
been added. Have a stew pan ready contain.
ing boiling water, into which put the soaked
rice and boil it briskly for ten minutes. Then
drain and then serve. The grains will be seps-
rate and very large.
NEVER PUT THE HANDLES OF Your KNIVES in
water, as ivory cracks and discolors il wet.
Finely powdered Bristol brick is the best mol
Usher for steel knives and can be rubbed on
with large cork. Have a knifeboard and keen
brick and cork together in place. When rubbed.
wash in hot suds and wipe very dry.
DoRAx WATER Is EXCELLENT FOB SpoNoNo
either silk or wool goods that are not soiled
enough to need washing. Cashmere or any
wool goods may be washed with q little borax
in the water and the color not be injured
They should not be rubbed on the board, but
only between the hands, and hung on the line
to dry without wringing. II treated in this
way and pressed on the wrong side as soon Is
dry enough they will look like new.
PorAro Purr.-Take two cupfuls of cold
mashed potato and stir into two tablesponfuls
Of melted butter, beating to white cream be-
fore adding anything else. Then put with this
s"o gigs "uAPPSo ASus Suu toocup1ul
Of cream or milk. sailing to taste. Beat all
well, pour into . deep dish and bake in quick
oven until it 10 nicely Drowned. II properly
mixed it will come out Of the oven light, puffy
and nice.
BRANDY SAUcE.-Beat half a cupful Of butter
thoroughly into u cupful Of sugar and add
three tablsspoonfuls Of brandy. Set the bowl
in pan Of bc ling water or into the top of Q
tea kettle ana stir its contents to Q cream;
turn into hot sauce boat, CRATE q little nut
meg over 1t and send to table at once Wine
will often be used instead Of brandy, but twice
the quantity will be required, - 1t IL not nearly
20 decided in favor.
KEEP WARx.-Rose Terry Cooke says: III
you want to be happy keep warm" Women are
eaten up with neuralgia, say the doctors. No
wonder. They sit Ill the morning BY hot
register and then tie the Ave or six-inch strip
Of bonnet over their back hair, bit of lace fln
over their bangs put on kid boots, with silk or
thread stockings underneath, and dnwdls along
the pavement with bitter winds Of winter smitine
their temples, their delicate ears, their throais
and the bases Of what should be their brain.
Their outward nerves shrink and culver under
this baxbsrous exposure. But no matter; their
chests are we'll covered With fur cloaks and
sacquss, but cold feet, the numb ears. the red
densd temples, the exposed nsek WIN have
thsir own story to tell