Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-10
Hints That Will Be of Value to BUSY
Housewives.
4 DAINTY BREAKFAST DISH
Cellars Should Be Kept Clean and
Dry.
LITTLE THINGS TO REMEMBER
Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.

II by some means a white spot has come
on your vanished furniture you can re-
move it by heating fire shovel right hot
and holding 1t close above the DETACHMENT.
A nice breakfast dish is prepared as fol-
lows: Put a half can Of tomatoes over the
fire and while they are cooking prepare and
toast as many slices Of dry bread as will
be required for your family. The tomatoes
should be very juicy and well cooked. Sea-
son them with salt and pepper and make
them rich with good butter. Butter the
slices of toast and lay them on a hot plat
ter. Pour over them the hot tomatoes, TAX
Ing care to have the bread thoroughly soft
ened with the Juice. If there should not
be enough Of the natural Juice add a little
water before pouring on the toast. 1t makes
an appetizing dish and helps to use up dry
bread, for the dryer the bread and the
browner the toast the better.
The joke about the old woman and her
eggs. which would either sink or swim IL
bad. and she "disremembered" which, is
OFTEN told, but no one who tells the story
seems to be able to make clear the dis
tinction either. If eggs are good they Will
Immediately sink to the bottom of a basin
to the top; this test is a. very good one
when you wish to boil eggs In the shell
and are afraid of the quality.
II you want your bureau drawers to smell
sweet. take two pieces of pright-colored
cotton bunting and put between them a
sheet of cotton "wadding." Sprinkle over
the wadding" some of the various per-
rune powders. or. what is sweeter and
more wholesome, make your own by grind
together a n
were going to make spice cake or pickles
and sprinkle this over the wadding The
perfumed pad should be just the right size
to lie nat on the bottom of the bureau
drawer when finished. 1t is not necessary
to use new material in its construction, and
when once made 1t will last an indefinite
time. and needs only to have the spices
renewed now and then, as they may lose
their freshness after awhile.
Some time when your little daughter is
not fond Of picture books. try her with
some light work. Get a ball Of very coarse
knitting cotton and let her crochet a wash
s 81 rney are SO easily made that any
make one. Make a simple loose chain,
stitch as long as you think necessary
twelve inches is good length-and then
crochet right back. in and out without
throwing the thread over the needle. When
IT is square show her how to make a neat
little scallop all around and then II is done.
oucn WASH clOtn Is nice TO nave IN the
guest chamber and helps the child, who is
always pleased to think that ii is of some
importance in the world; besides ii amuses
1t, keeps its mind occupied and teaches it
every bit Of Irvine thet comes into the
house and carefully ties it together and
uses it for wash cloth material
There is death in a damp cellar. and
just now death is hunting around for damp
cellars to roost in, and is no doubt finding
lot of them. If you must use your cell
lars for store rooms and pile them full Of
all sorts of damp lumber and other unsav-
DRY trash, You should. in the interest of
humanity, clean such a cellar often. Gel
lars should be aired often: on bright days
the windows should be left open all the
time, and once every two or three weeks
everything should be taken out into the
sun and aired thoroughly. Fresh lime
edges of a damp cellar. but the only really
safe precaution Is to keep II free of things
that will gather damp or give off odors.
and sunshine and fresh air are the best
disinfectants in the world.
At this season Of the year the system
Graves acids. The very best acid is lemon
Juice. but 1t should not be taken in its
natural state, as it is too strong for the
stomach. A good way to prepare lemons
for instant use is follows: Get two dozen
lemons and roll each one separately on a
smooth, hard surface until IL is quite soft
then cut off the end and, with a dull knife
scrape out all the juice and pulp. Strain
this carefully through thin cloth, then
make the juice almost thick with sugar.
bottle in glass, using a cork stopper and
stand in cool place. II will keep n long
time and to make a glass of fresh lemon
ade you have only to put in a tumbler of
cold water enough of the sugared acid TO
suit your taste. You might do this when
lemons are cheap, and then when lemons
are scarce and high in price you will not
be deprived OF your favorite beverage be-
Netz oh, Id,
So many women who have entry ways
and kitchens carpeted with oilcloth or lineo-
lum habitually cleanse IL with soap and
water. often adding ammonia, I've or wash
ing soda. Two or three such washings will
take all the gloss from the oilcloth and a
few more such rubbings will begin to deface
the figures. And this for the reason that
the soap and I've eat the life out of the
paint. II you have plenty of milk wash up
the oilcloth with that, using a clean floor
cloth II milk is not plenty. saturate a
cloth with coal oil and wash the oilcloth
with that. then rub with dry cloth. The
result will please you and your floor cover
ings will last longer.
1t Is a common habit with some people of
really clearly habits to take drink of
water the first thing on rising in the morn
ing, using for that purpose water which has
| stood in the sleeping room all night. The
draught is all right, but the person who
drinks water that has stood in a sleeping
room for several hours Is simply inviting all
sorts of disorders TO visit him. Water is
one of the ready absorbents of disease
germs and ii would be a hazardous thing
to drink water that has stood in an open
vessel out in the open air. TO say nothing of
that shut up in a sleeping room with all
sorts of unhealthy eXhalations being given
OFF from the body. Nor is ii we'll to drink
water that has stood for several hours in
| the lead pipes; always let the water run for
a few moments first.
The uses to which onions may be nut are
so many and they have been decided by
competent authority to be SO healthy that
one could wish they were shade less
offensive to smell. The Scientific Ameri-
can now comes forward and recommends
onions a specific against epidemscs. They
should be sliced and placed about the room
in saucers, where they will absorb all
poisons floating in the air. 1t is stated that
in the room Of smallpox patient they
blistered and decomposed in very short
time. The remedy is almost as bad as the
disease, but as 1t is thought that they pre-
vent the spread of disease. 1t is certainly
worth trying.
A common error of those who have TO
cater to the requirements of ailing people is
the singular persistence with which they in
s!st upon such people eating. Whether hun
CRY or not one should eat, is the cry. 1t is
perfectly preposterous to advocate such a
theory, because the moment that people
take into their stomachs food that is NOT