The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-21
THE HOME.
HINTS TO HousEKEEpERs.


Miss Parloa says the best size for bread
tins is eight andaa half inches long, four
and half wide and three deep.
Bread crusts should be dried in the
oven and put away in paper bags until
wanted for use.
Pour rice in fine strainer and let
water run through it. This is an easy
mode of washing.
Prick potatoes before baking. The air
will then escape, and they will not burst
in the oven.
If you wish soft glossy crust on rolls
brush them over with milk before put
ting them in the oven.
When pin feathers come out with diff
fculty, wrap piece of muslin around
your finger to pull against.
Sponge carpets now and then with hot
salt water. 1t keeps out moths and
brightens the color in your carpet.
A raw egg swallowed Immediately will
generally be found to carry down fish
bone that has ragged in the throat.
For mildew, which is not an uncom-
mon plant foe, dust with sulphur or
sprinkle with sulphur water. Also dig a
little SCOT into the soil.
A dish of charcoal placed in your meat
larder will keep the articles sweet and
wholesome almost as well as ice. Char
coal is a great disinfectant.
If the throat is very sore wiring cloth
out of cold salt water and bind it on the
throat when going to bed; cover it with
dry towel. This is excellent.
Do not worry, young housekeepers if
there is mold on your preserves. There
is nothing on earth that will keep them
as well; it is alright, and they will i'm
prove every month.
The most satisfactory way to clean
wall paper is with bread about a day old,
but not old enough to crumble badly nor
fresh enough to be doughty when used
If the paper is not very much soiled it
may be busted and rubbed down with
a soft hand mop made of cotton yarn,
Remember in using the mop or bread to
take even downward strokes, one follow
ING the edge of the other SO as to cover
finally the whole.
To remove spots from furniture an old
authority says:-''Rub them vigorously
with sweet oil and turpentine. When the
spots are removed the furniture may be
washed with warm, not hot, soapsuds,
and polished with a little crude oil or Pc
troleum.
Learn to drink from public fountain
cup, if you must do this, without touch
ing the rim. Put the lower lip in the
water first, and tilt the cup higher than
usual. When children want a drink from
the railway mug, pass clean cambria
handkerchief over the rim, next the lips.
But it is small matter to carry a tiny
Ii III
IL there is too much salt in the butter,
it should be freshed by working itin cool
water.
To restore steel pen, hold the point
over the end of lamp chimney or candle
flame until hot. The sediment collected
thereon will then burn off and the pen
point be as good as new.
ARoUT WOMEN.
Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes has given
Ansonia, CT, a drinking fountain in
memory of Anne Sewell, of England, the
author of ''Black Beauty"
Mrs. Susan B. Anthony has been i'm
mortalized by a souvenir spoon, which
bears not only her likeness and name, but
also the watchword of her cause-''Politi
Cdl EqUsdllty.
The late Miss Julia Dickinson, aMichi-
gan woman, left Oberlin college, $4,000,
one-half to endow the chair of lady princi-
pal, and the rest for the department of
physical culture for women.
Miss Soonderbai Powar, an Indian
Christian of Bombay, speaking at an
anti-opium meeting recently held in Lon
don, told how in India, with 100000
gods, the women who worship idols said:
''Tel1 the English people and govern
ment that, if they will stop this trade, we
will regard them as our gods. When
missionaries go to the zenanas to preach,
they are told, $50 and convert your
Christian government first"
Your American Woman, says Max
O'Rell, is women par excellence, and
the reason that the American girl and
the American woman queens it over the
rest of you is because she is respected.
If were an American, it is this fact that
| should be proud of-tllis respect that
women inspires in men. Even the most