The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-17
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Regular busting with soft brush
or cloth should keep bronze clean and
little sweet oil. gently rubbed. will
remove the purple tinge that comes.-
n. Y. World.
BELLS Cake: Break two eggs in .
cup. add two tablespoons Of sweet
cream. fill the cup with sweet milk. add
one cup of sugar, one and half cups
of flour, one teaspoonful Of cream tar.
tar and half . teaspoon Of soda. Farm
and Home.
Aunt Sarah" gives an excellent
recipe for cleaning silver. Rub tho
silver with piece of an old, soft nap
kin moistened with little olive oil;
then rub it well with calcined magnesia,
using a brush when necessary, and
afterward with clear, soft chamois."
n. Y. Tribune.
To restore rancid butter to its orig.
inal taste. beat up quarter OF pound
Of good fresh lime in pail OF water.
Let stand an hour, pour of the lime
water carefully, and in this wash the
butter thoroughly. Wash afterward
with cold spring water and salt slight
ly.-Detroit Free Press.
1T you want your windows to DO
nice and right, add little ammonia
to the water and wash thoroughly. Use
no soap as it leaves the glass Of a milky
color. You can not obtain satisfactory
results BY wiping them off with damp
cloth-bnt they must be washed with
plenty Of water. Dry them with clean
cotton cloths, and polish with cha
mois or soft paper.
One way Of preventing delicate and
sweet-scented flowers from tagging ID
cut them with several leaves on the
stem, and, when the flower head ID
placed in water, to allow only this
head to remain above the water, while
the leaves are entirely submerged; by
this means the leaves seem to help sup
port the flower, which will then last
for three days in fairly cool room.
"A Good Lemon Jelly: Soak ono
package of gelatine in half pint Of
cold water for two hours or more. Pour
on this one quart Of boiling water, and
add pint of sugar. Set the bowl in q
pan of boiling water and stir until tho
sugar and gelatine are dissolved; then
add half pint Of lemon juice, and
strain through coarse napkin. Turn
into molds and set away to harden
Ladies' Home Journal.
-Warmed-over Potatoes: An excel
lent way to warm over potatoes is to
put lump of butter into q saucepan.
As it melts add q tablespoonful Of -four,
stirring it SO that it will not burn. Then
pour in . cup Of rich sweet milk (pure
cream is preferable) and season with
pepper and salt Keep stirring with .
spoon so that the ingredients will be
well mixed, then put into this cold
sliced potatoes. Let them boil up for q
few minutes, then send to the table
hot.-Detroit Free Press.
Royal Pudding: Cover . box Of
gelatine with water and let it dissolve,
then pour over it q pint and q half Of
boiling water, add pound of sugar,
and the juice of four oranges and three
lemons, stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Strain, and set in q cool place. Dip .
large mold in ice water. cover the bot
tom and sides with canned cherries
cover with the liquid gelatine, let it
harden, fill up the space with moro
gelatine, and set it to cool. Serve
with vanilla cold sauce. per.
Among new home luxuries are the
shoulder pillows, which give comfort,
combined with bit of decoration, to
high, hard-backed chair. The pillows
are made eight to ten inches wide and
twelve to fifteen in length, according
to the size of the chair on which they
are to be used. The material may be
printed silk, china silk, plush or velvet,
embroidered or plain. Silkoline is one
of the prettiest of inexpensive mate
rails. These pillows are used in pairs
by setting small, gilt rings in the edges
and lacing them together with ribbonA
IN. Y. World.