Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS,

4 TWO, which is not severe enough to make
one Ill, but quite enough SO to make one
miserable. A half a teaspounful of table
salt In a half wineglass of water will
oiteh remove the ache in less than half an
hour. 1t seems to sweeten the stomach,
| from which most headaches come
|
To keep clothing looking well is an art
and requires time. Never put a garment
away after wearing till you have cleaned
1t thoroughly. If you have worn some
| thing at light that is 10 be put away again
hang the garment carefully over the back
OF chair or your clothes rack till morn
lng; then go over 1t with brush and soft
SILK cloth, taxing out every bit of dust, and
| III there are any spots cleaning them be-
fore Dust has chance to settle in them
III bindings are ripped, buttons gone, trim
ming pulled loose, fasten IL all in shape,
tnen hang the garment away so that it
| Will not be in wrinkles, and when you need
| 10 put II on again in a hurry your temper
viii not be in evidence for a whole day
over a badly conditioned gown that you
| had not time to fix. The same is true of
| hat, gloves and shoes. Five minutes care
OF them when laid aside will add weeks 10
| their freshness. A well-groomed man or
| woman is known by the absolute neatness
| or the garments worn, rather than the
latest cut in style or weave in fabrics.
Somebody is always saying to use damp
| tea leaves on your carpet to lay the dust
| in sweeping. / wouldn't do II il were you.
| Tea leaves will stain, no matter how well
stepped. If the carpet is very dark it
might do, but they will be sure to ruin a
| light carpet. Salt is shade worse than
| tea leaves. for 1T makes the carpet sticky.
| Damp sawdust is clean and will take up
| the dust, but can't always be procured. A
cheap substitute is to tear paper into small
bits and dip I'm cold water till wet then
squeeze dry and sprinkle over the carpet.
TO brighten up faded colors, wiring cloth
a nf for In, h oh haxsa
put two tablespoonsful of OK gall.
Coal Oil is an excellent tonic for the hair,
but is Objectionable on account of its odor.
which l cannot tell how to overcome. But
If the oil is rubbed well into the roots of
the hair with a soft sponge in the morn
ing, the odor will be almost gone by even
ing, and you can further dissipate it by a
liberal application of bay rum rubbed in
the same way. The coal oil cleans the
scalp beautifully, and softens the hair.
Fried banana is a palatable dish for
breakfast and gives that fruit a favor all
its own, and to many tastes much better
than when eaten in the natural state. Take
off the peeling and split the banana in half.
Have hot frying pan with half inch
of melted butter in the bottom. Into this
put the banana, being careful not to let
it burn, but brown well on both sides. Just
before lifting out sprinkle with sugar and
set in the oven to crisp over the top. Serve
on hot dish.
Did you ever try apples baked in this
way? Select all of size and peel nicely,
then remove the core leaving a round
hole straight through the apple. Make
a paste of sugar, butter and a little grated
nutmeg and fill the hole in each apple with
it and set In buttered pudding dish. Then
put dozen little bits of butter over the
outside of the apples, sprinkle literally
with sugar and set in a hot oven to bake.
Very tart apples are best.
Rice lends itself to a greater variety OF
dishes than any other article of food. 1t
desserts, is excellent as -four, serves as a
vegetable to use with meats or fish, makes
delicious cakes for breakfast when cooked
like batter cakes, and for made meat dishes
has no equal, withal, being extremely cheap
when the nutritve qualities of the cereal
are considered, yet IL is more often served
up in unpalatahle shape than almost any
other dish. 1t needs delicate cooking and
dainty treatment TO bring out its palatable
qualities.
Generally speaking, coffee boiled is coffee
spoiled. The instant that IL boils up, IL
should be set back to steep for a few mo-
ments.
If your handsome Chinese umbrella hold
err gets broken, don't throw il aside. Fasten
the pieces together with cement, and then
apply a line Of some bright enamel paint
or gliding along the crack. A streak or
look out of place on Chinese bric-a-brac.
for it all looks like war map, anyhow.
Half an ounce of gum arabic dissolved
with plaster of paris makes an excellent
cement for china. 1t must be used at once
before hardening, which IL does very rap
idly.
If your old gilt picture frames are hope
lessly dull, give them coat OF white
enamel paint and touch them up in lines or
leaves with gold:
When the color has been taken from a
fabric by acid, liquid ammonia applied
without diluting will often restore the
color. 1t is well TO experiment with a
scrap of the material first, however, as
there are some colors that will not stand
ammonia ut ALL
II rice or oatmeal or anything of that
kind seems determined to cook TO the bot
tom of the vessel, put thin piece OF tin
or sheet iron between the kettle or pan
and the stove.
"Tarfeta plisse" is the latest and most
stylish novelty in the dress goods market.
In texture II is as light as the traditional
feather, and in color II may be with a
glace or plain ground having self-cofored,
black, white or colored SATIN STRIPES; Inc
design is a stripe of taffeta having the ap-
pearance of being puckered or shirred TO
narrower fiat stripes of satin. The stripes
are in different widths, which makes the
material suitable for slender or full fig
ures. The weave is so crispy that IL is next
10 Impossible to crush the goods, and 1t has
another advantage, ia that II does not need
the extra interlinings now so generally
used. The light evening shades are OF an
exquisite softness in turquoise, Nile, bleuet,
maize, cream, rose, antique pinks ana blues
mauve, violet reseda, white, paille, glycine'
roseau and colibri.
In fancy effects half-inch white stripe
alternates with a tiny line OF black satin.
making II an ideal black and white gown.
maize taffeta stripe in the wavy pucker-
Inas that glisten with a golden sheen Is
divided by antique pink satin stripes an
eighth of an inch wide. Light bleLet with
siivery stripes, is exquisite by day or night.
A golden brown and reseda CONSERVATION is
itself. Another golden brown has
tinv white stripes, and a pure white Is
the very picture OF grlsh evening gown.
The all-black Is suitable for all ages.
This pearl of silken fabrics is shown only
IN thie cIty by Woodward a. Lothrop.