The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-15
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Powdered flint glass ground to an
mpalpable powder and mixed with tho
white of an egg makes one of tho
strongest cements known.
To clean brass, immerse it several
lines in sour milk or whey. This will
brighten it without securing. It may
then lie secured with a wooden cloth
Tipped in ashes.-Detroit Free Press.
"A contemporary gives a pretty
MOTTO for bed canopy, the embroidery
If which should be peoples, with this
verso outlined:
II bring" said the poppy, yawning,
THE gift man longs to pc ssess;
That he racks the world in seeking
hiring him forgetfulness.
After bottle or key of olives has
,een opened, the mold will soon form.
little horse-radish or a few nastur-
tiums placed therein will prevent this
to certain extent. The better way is
to buy them in small bottles, SO that
the bottle may be used before they have
a chance to mold.
Mushroom Omelette: Boil fresh
pepper, salt and lemon juice, thicken
with little cornstarch. Make plain
omelette. When ready to turn drop
some Of the mushrooms in the center,
fold over, turn and dish; pour mush-
rooms around the omelette and serve
Boston Budget.
"A few applications of pure linseed
oil to polished wooden surface, as
trays and tables, before use will mini
mize the marks which always result
from placing hot dishes upon the wood.
The oil should be sprinkled on soft
cloth and very evenly applied; but as
mats and stands can be had in great
variety, their use seems an absolute
necessity if such blemishes are to be
avoided.-N. Y. World.
-Conundrum Pie: One cupful of
crumbs, either dry bread, cake or
crackers. Add one cupful of hot water,
one cupful of molasses, one-half cupful
of sugar, one cupful of raisins, one
fourth cupful of butter, and all kind Of
spices desirable. Bake in two crusts.
A glass Of jelly is an Improvement
This is very good to use up many scraps
of dry yet good food, which would he
otherwise thrown away.-Housekeeper.
To remove freshly-spilt ink, take up
as much as possible of the ink with a
teaspoon. Then pour cold milk on the
spot and take up as before; repeat un
til the milk is only slightly tinged with
black. Then rinse with cold water
and dry with cloth, rubbing lightly.
Another authority says, when the ink
has been spilled on a carpet to imme.
diately cover the spot thickly with salt,
and in ive minutes the stain will have
entirely disappeared House.
keeping
There is no more attractive bull
and none more easily raised in the
house or outdoors than oxalis. 1t is
now found in beautiful rose pink shades
and in yellow and white. There is 8
fine variety spoken Of by some florists
which is white with a yellow eye and
rosy pink tint on the outside. These
plants need scarcely any care except
watering and sunny situation in a
window or outdoors. They will give a
prufusion of bloom for four or five
months. when they require period OF
resin. Y. Tribune.
An appetizing and easily-eaten
dainty especially suited to the railway
hamper is prepared as follows: Boil
half a dozen eggs for ten minutes; i'm.
merse in cold water to prevent theiI
turning black and peel off the shells
cut the eggs lengthwise; take out the
yolks and beat them up first with lit
tie butter, then add potted ham and
suspicion of mustard. When DONE
fill the followed whites with the paste
and press the halves together, wrapping
them in different colored tissue paper
twisting the ends tightly together tc
hold the paper secure. Eat them with
mock sandwiches.-N. Y. Times.