Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-05-13
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.


| POTATOES done on q wire brOiler are
said to excel the fried
| WELL-yENTILATED bedrooms will pre-
vent morning headaches and lassitude
Apply linseed oil and turpentine in
equal parts with a soft cloth to the white
spots on your furniture.
A FEW pieces of horse radish root put
among pickles will keep the scum from
rising on top and improve their flavor.
To beat eggs quickly add pinch of
salt. Salt cools and cold eggs froth
rapidly.
SMALL fruits should be cooked slowly
| thirty or forty minutes. Preserves
| keep best in small glass jars or tumblers,
with paper dipped in brandy laid over
the tops.
A FRYING-PAN should never touch
water. Scour them out with salt the
moment they are done with, and wipe
! clean with a cloth. A washed Omelet-
| pan makes poor Omelet.
Do not light siCk-roOm at night by
means Of q Jet of gas or a kerosene lamp
| burning low; nothing lmpoverishes the
air sooner. Use sperm candles, or
tapers which burn sperm oil.
KEEP a clasp-knife or a knife with
different handle from those III common
use for the sole purpose of peeling
onions, and SO avoid the flavor and
odor OF them where it is neither expect
| ed nor desired.
To clean mirrors, sponge them perfect
vi free from all dirt, drying with soft
cloths, and when quite dry rub little
| powdered blue over the glass, polishing
! it finally with a soft old silk hand
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CURRAETs, berries and all juicy fruits
may be washed, and then cooked
without water; then strain, and the
juice boiled for fifteen or twenty min
utes before adding the sugar, when
very little boiling will be required.
Tie smoked and dusty globes of
chandeliers may be nicely cleaned by
soaking them in hot water, to which
little sal soda has been added. Then
put some ammonia into hot water.
immerse the globes and scrub briskly
with q stiff brush. Rinse thoroughly
and wipe dry.
For reaches, make a -four paste into
which has been stirred, while hot,
phosphorus, in the proportion Of a
dimes worth Of the phosphorus to a
half-pint of paste; when nearly cold
add quarter as much grease. Put OBJ
pieces of board where the reaches are.
They Will die while eating the paste.
To ranovate ostrich feathers, take
q smooth whalebone, and beginning at
the base of the frOnd, draw each one
lightly but firmly between the thumb
and Whalebone. If the fronds curl too
much, hold them more loosely and
further from the quill. Carefully and
patiently going over a feather will quite
repay the trouble.
A PORCELAIN kettle is best for
preserving; too large a quantity should
never be cooked at one time. Large fruits
may be put in the syrup, cooked
rapidly at first and then slowly, to pre-
serve the shape; if the fruit is cooked,
and the syrup yet thin, take up piece
at time carefully, boil the syrup
until thick, return the fruit to it and
cook slowly.
GILT picture frames may be frightened
by taking sufficient flour Of sulphur to
give a golden tinge to about u pints of
water, and in this boil four or five
bruised onions, or Cattle, which will
answer the same purpose. Strain OF
this liquid. and with it, when cold, wash
with a soft brush any gliding which
requires renewing, and when dry 1t Will
come out bright as new.
If you insist on your dresSmaker
facing your gowns with velvet or
velveteen instead of braid, you will
lessen your shoemaker's bills and be
saved from the purple blemlsh on the
instep caused by the movements Of the
skirts in walking.
ALL grained or vanished woodwor
should be cleaned with tea, made Of
medium strength and strained, after
which it should be rubbed over with a
small flannel cloth dipped occasionally
in boiled linseed oil, and wiped
thoroughly with a dry flannel cloth.
Nothing is more convenient than a
wooden skewer for cleaning out
crevices and corners
WAX dripping from the tapers now so
fashionably used for lighting purposes
can be removed from linen tablecloths
with hot iron and a piece of blotting
paper, or by dipping the part ID eau
de cologne, which renders the wax
brittle. so that it can easily be rubbed
off with the fuger.
WHITE gowns grow yellow if left to
hang uncovered. Make bags for them
and for your silk, and velvets as we'll.
Seal-skin retains it's beauty for a greater
length of time if kept in the dark free
from dust. To make the most successful
bags for these purposes use light calico,
which has no luZz and washes easily
Sew the breadths together, leaving the
top and bottom open. Sew hooks and
ruin sbirr string in the top. The gown
should first be put On wire arm, and
the bag drawn over it and fastened at
the bottom with the hooks and eyes;
then draw the string over the arm,
leaving the loop by which it is hung up
uncovered. It the garment is white, or
delicate in color, put cake of white
wax iii the bag to prevent it turning
yellow.
Reanty Not SrainS