Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-17
POINTER FOR WOMEN
Hints That Will Make a Housekeeper,s
Life Easier.
Suggestions for the Care OF Lamps
How 10 Keep an Umbrella
Fads md Fancfes

Fads md Fancfes.
Written Exclusively for The Evening Star
One OF the handiest pieces of furniture
about a kitchen table is a thick-lipped oyster
SHE'LL 1t makes a much nicer pot AID
skillet scraper than an iron dish cloth"
The chain arrangements which are used for
that purpose are all denominations. They
get full of infnitesimal bits of cabbage,
burned potatoes, bits of fried onion, broiled
STEAK and the like. and only a bath of con-
cehtrated I've and the application of scrub
orush VIII clean them. An oyster shell can
he Kept as clean as silver spoon.
III you want to keep your stove IN shinin,
shape, rub it with an old newspaper Just
crush a page or two up in a wad and rub
the stove vigorously. 1t is best to do his
"heh the stove is warm. and you will be
astonished to see how bright and clam
this treatment will leave it. 1t will burnish
nickel plate beautifully, and there is moth
ing better for polishing window glass
than old soft newspapers.
The monument to the memory of Kins
Henry the First OF England ought 10 H.
a yard stick. His arm was lust thirtv-slr
inches long. and that is where the English
ana American yard got its standard of
length.
Never poke a fire on top. The place to
use poker especially when hard coal is
used, is at the bottom of the CRATE where
the clinkers and ashes obstruct the free
passage of air.
Lamp wicks are as contrary as human
nature and one that sticks" is a nuisance
woman cry. If you will take a sticking"
wick out and pull out a thread next the
sewage II will often make IL work beauti-
, , IL usually sticks because it is o
Unread or two too wide.
!
When You come i'm out Of the rain. don't
plump your nice silk umbrella ferrule down
INTO the umbrella stand, unless Won want
to ruin Ii. That lets the water ana tiny
specks of grit" run down into the lining
under the iron ring that secures the ribs
ana Il stays there. making the silk tender
and rots It, Neither should you leave the
umbrella open TO dry, as that stretches the
SILK and makes IL stiff, and It will soon split
snake II well. then close IL and stand Il
handle down, where the water will run of
Never set an umbrella or parasol away
tightly folded. IL will split out just as soon
again Leave the folds to lie loosely.
Some people think that because coal oil
! lamps often give of an odor IL is one OF
the concomitants OF that illumination which
is not fact. A lamp has to be as regu-
larry and carefully cleaned as a furnace,
and III either gets cloggei up there is no
comfort TO be had. Coal oil makes the best
light for reading purposes by all odds. The
lamp should be emptied of ali the oil once
week to cleanse the bowl of all impure
ties. Ii should be carefully filled each day
I for when the wick has to draw from too
great depth the lamp is sure to smoke.
| The WICK should be trimmed every morn
ing and the burner carefully freed from bits
| OF charred wick. Use only the best oil. IL
these directions are followed you Will have
no trouble with your lamps.
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Somebody is always saying to put a
few drops of ammonia in the water I'm
which you bathe." III you want to get old
| and yellow and wrinkled. follow that plan.
Ammonia is fine for household cleansing,
! but Il never was meant TO be used on the
flesh. Sal soda, or washing soda. it
/ is sometimes called, is mucn nicer than
ammonia. and is cheaper Borax is better
than either, but, of course, costs more II
you want to see how ammonia treats things
put few drops on cloth and rub paint
ed door; it will take the paint of in am
instant. That ought 10 teach sensible wo-
men that it will dry out and render the
skin liable to crack.
When you put cranberries or any whole
tart berry of that kind TO cook. throw
into the water teaspoonful of baking
soda. The instant the water boils mp once.
drain all that water OF and put on fresh
cold water. You will find that this treat
ment will take out all the bitterness that
sometimes nngers around such fruit.
One of the simplest ways of disiafecting
room is to pour a drachm ur two OF sui
phuric acid on a saucer of salt, set Il in the
middle of the room, the fumes do the dis
injecting.
III you keep sneezing and have sensations
of chilliness IL is a fair sign of coming cola.
Sometimes it can be broken quite effectually
by a hot lemonade. Get the lemon and
sugar ready and set the water boiling.
Then battle the feet in hot water. or take
hot lorl an Pnffy INN fQr
and have brought TO you the glass Of lemon
and sugar over which the boiling water has
been poured. Drink it down as hot as pos
sible. You won't have a symptom OF cold
in the morning.
Don't throw away the bits of string.
Make them into a ball and keep in box In
the kitchen. String is always in require
ment and seldom at hand.
II you like toasted cheese here is a very
nice way to prepare IL. Cut two ounces OF
cheese into thin slices, or IL you have some
crumbs of dried stale cheese use that Put
il in a pan with gill OF milk and set on
the stove TO simmer until the cheese IS ols-
solved Set or to cool a little, then add the
yolk of one egg well beaten. Pour the
mixture into a shallow tin and brown N
the oven.
So few cooks or housekeepers seem to
know that every article OF food should te
kept covered until it appears on the table
kept in air-tight vessels and kept covered
They both take up every odor flying In me
air and are positively harmful TO take into
the stomach after standing uncovered Tor
an hour or two. for not only doors. but the
animalculae that ill the air are attracted
to milk and butter. Uncovered jelly Is
menace 10 family health. IL is in gelatins
jelly that expert bacteriolog1sts imprisoa
germs of disease to watch them propagate.
They seem TO thrive better on that kind OF
food than on any other, yet in two-thirds
of the pantries in the city viii be found
half-used dishes or glasses OF jelly stand
ing uncovered.
The tobacco worm now vies with the
chameleon in woman's favor; only tie
worm is dead. one formed OF pearls. it's
ridges accumulated with green enamel IN
which are sunk tiny diamonds and that Las
/ a green enamel head and feelers finely tip
ped is about the thing. 1t is hideous. and
SO are most OF the women who wear such
I freaks.
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Don't sleep in warm room II you want
to be free from headaches and have a good
complexion. Ii is all very nice - get into
a nice warm bed, but before you do 50 he
sure that the heat is turned OF, ana pull
the window down at the top. A room 10
hos Ia ted Inv ins af he of