The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-05
ABOUT THE HOUSE.
Suggestions for Articles
for Comfort and Deco
rational Useful
Window Seat.

Garments to be ironed In cold starch
should be immediately dipped in boiling
water and ironed as soon as starched. In
this way you will be saved all trouble of
sticking irons.
Lamp globes acquire a great brilIiancy
If polished with dry salt, and it is said
that a teaspoonful in each lam u not only
saves oil. but makes the kerosene give a
clearer and better light.
Never put corn in not water to boil.
The following recipe has been recon-
mended as satisfactory for cooking green
corn. and every one who has eaten it de-
clares it perfect. First, buy good corn.
In selecting be sure that the silk at the
ear, and by pressing the finger nail In
one OF the kernels see that the milk flows
freely. Remove the outside husks and
take all the silk from the ear, leave the
inside $ on, put in a kettle of cold
water: 10 every six ears pat one table
spoonful of salt and three tablespoonsful
or sugar; place Kettle on fire and let boil
Just five minutes after it comes to a boil.
1t will then be perfect. Serve with husks
on covered with u large napkin.
Dlnerent Kinds OF pictures, should never
be hung together, and though few modern
houses are sufficiently spacious to admit
of setting aside a room for zach kind.
they may at least be assigned to separate
walls. I5 is also important that such
pictures as require a glass should not be
hung opposite a window, where the re-
Election on the glass will entirely destroy
the effect. Neither should a very gay
Frencn painting be hung near a cool,
quiet landscape, or by contrast. the one
will be vulgarized aud the other made to
| seem tame and embarrassing.
TIE proper napkins now are soft and
fine as silk.
Ice cream and ginger ara eaten to-
gether by certain ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
on the principle of combining cause and
cure.
When cooking mushrooms a silver
spoon should be used.
Polish your nails with your fingers"
says a manicure. The friction If the
flesh and the little oil which eXudes from
the pores get up quickly a healthy circu-
lation beneath the nail, making it rosy,
and fingers impart besides a better actual
polish than the chamois rubber"
Lots of trash is written about washing
the face. skin lotions. face massage and
kindred subjects. But once in a while
one m across directions that appeal
TO ones common sense. for example, this,
taken from a contemporary:-"At even
Ing just before retiring Wash the face and
neck with hot water, to which a little fiue
soap is added. Rub the face with the
hands, then with a soft flannel wash
cloth, and rinse in cold water, to which a
little cologne is added. Dry with a soft
towel. Now rub into the skin thoroughly
a little cold cream, rubbing the face gent
ly for several minutes. II it seems neces-
sary to battle the face with warm water
In the morning don't fail to rinse it well
with cold water, which prevents taking
cold. Those who battle the fare and neck
IN cold water every morning ara less
liable to colds. In bathing the face rub
upward and in an opposite direction from
the wrinkles. h teuds to lessen them.n
window seats are sue convenient
places that 40 woman who has once en-.
Joyed having them will be willing to do
without them. A board the width aud
length of the Enclosure. secured firmly by
iron brackets underneath, will answer
the purpose very we'll. The success of
the window seat depends more on the
padding Of the top and valance than on
the seat itself, which is SO simple that a
strong woman could put it up herself.
For those in the chamber, chintz makes a
pretty covering. Here eau be left the
w~orkbasket, book or piece Of mending. a
lar more convenient spot han a table,
That in the dininZroom. If used for plants,
should be simply stained or painted
Plush, tapestry or siugle-faced velour is
pretty for those in the parlor. In q fiat,
where every inch OF room must be uui-
lized. these, If boxed up. become good
packing receptacles.
10 remove spots from furniture rub
them vigorously with sweet oil aud tur-
pentine. When the sDots are removed
the furniture may be washed with warm
soapsuds and polished with a little crude
oil of petroleum. Tea and coffee stains
will usually come out of linen il put into
water at once or ii soon washed. II they
are of long standing rub pure gIycerine
on them; wash his out aud then have
the article cleaned in the general way.
A t%easpooDful of borax added to the
stsrcn in the laundry will give that Pc
culiar gloss TO collars, cuffs and shirt
bosoms which is the characteristic OF the
professional laundry. though much OF
full use which the worker makes of her
polishing iron.