Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
HOUSEHOLD eREvIrEs.

Silver can be kept bright for
months by being placed in an air-tight
case with good-sized piece of cam
phor.
Turn lamp wicks down below the
top of the tube when not lighted and
you will not be troubled with the oil
running over on the outside of the
lamps
When ivory becomes discolored it
may be restored to its white color by
being soaked in water, and when wet
exposed to the action of light while
shut up in a well-closed glass case
Silk must never be ironed as the
heat takes the life out of it and makes
it seem stringy and habby. If, now
ever, you need to press out old pieces
of silk and ribbon for fancy work use
an iron only moderately hot and place
two thicknesses of paper between that
and the silk.
If the eyes are tired and inf1amed
from loss of sleep. by sitting up late or
long travel, apply in the morning soft
white linen. dripping with hot water
as hot as you can bear it@laying the
cloth upon the lids You will feel the
eyes strong and free from pain-or dis
tress in half an hour.
Banana Cake.-Use any nice recipe
for layer cake, and make a filing as
follows: Boil five tablespoons sweet
milk and one cup granulated sugar for
exactly five minutes. without stirring.
then beat 1t until cool and thick enough
to spread Put it on the cake, and lay
on sliced bananas, then add another
layer until all are used Frost the top
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Gluten Mush.-Boil one pint of
milk First cover the bottom of the
saucepan or spider with cold water. to
prevent the milk from burning. When
boiling, sift in slowly enough gluten to
make a thick mush- When stiff enough.
scrape it into the double boiler, add
half teaspoon of salt, and cook half
an hour over boiling water. Serve with
cream.-Boston Budget
-Cocoanut Drops--One grated cocoa
nut. one cup of powdered sugar, whites
| of three eggs beaten stiff, one table
spoonful of cornstarch. Wet the corn
starch with the milk of the cocoanuts,
beat up the whites of eggs and weip
the sugar into them; add corpstarch.
cocoanut and few drops of extract of
rose: beat up we'll; drop by the spoonful
on buttered paper and bake half an
hour.-Detroit Free Press.
"A sink-pipe that is choled with
grease may be cleared by slowly pour-
ing few ounces of potash dissolved in
boiling water into the pipe the last
thing at night This will mix with the
grease, and when water is added in the
morning the whole compound becomes
soapsuds and runs away If the pipe is
very foul more than one application
may be required, but it will succeed
unless the pipe is cholzed with some
other material.
The following is a choice soap re-
cipe, tried and tested for many years
by a family of noted housekeepers:
Take two pounds of pure beef tallow,
one pound of sal-soda, one-hah pound
salt. one ounce of gum-camphor, one
half pint of glycerine, one ounce of
borax; boil slowly for one hour, stirring
it frequently with a wooden spatula-
Set it off the fire until cold, then boil it
over. adding one-half pound of best re-
| fined white-loaf sugar. and one-haf
pound of cease oatmeal Perfume
with oil of rose, sassafras or bergamot.
as suits the maker.-Ladies' Home
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