The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-22
Hints to HOusekeepsrs.

and quickly dried, once or twice
month, become more durable.
Milk in boiling always form
peculiar acid, so a pinch of sod
should be added when beginning t
cook.
To clean silk, sponge it with equs
parts of black tea and vinegar. Shak
until nearly dry then press with a
iron that is half hot.
To exterminate moths from trunk
and chests wash well with bora,
water, and after drying use benzipe
Air and sun well before using.
To clean black silk, sponge on boil
sides with weak ammonia water, thei
roll up on a roller and leave unit
thoroughly dry. Will come out yer,
nicely and repay the trouble.
The recent salters, both large ant
small, are exceedingly rich ant
beautiful. They are found cut glas:
and silver trimmed, with side rest fol
little spoon Tor shovel, the bowl glass
the handle silver.
Money, while coveted, has its draw.
backs in possession-the much-worn
and soiled bills suggestive of previous
owners among the "great unwashed.'
In Japanese stores is sold a little
perfumed button to be carried in the
pocketbook and called a money disin-
rectant'-the ordor that of foreign
spices and sandal woodland price 10
cents,
Be careful where you keep flour.
Like butter, it absorbs orders readily.
1t should not be kept in place where
there are onions, fish, vegetables or
other ordorous substances, nor i'm a
damp room or cellar. Keep it in a
cool, dry, airy room, where it will not
be exposed to a freezing temperature,
nor to one above 10 degrees. Always
sift before using.
Bread pudding is made more attract
i've than usual by baking and serving
in custard cups, one to each person.
Butter the cups and stand in pan of
hot water while baking. If you
prefer to take the buildings from the
cups before sending them to the table
invert the cups on bread-and-butter
DR. small pie plates. In the latter case
put the fruit you use IN the bottom of
the cup. Serve with good liquid or
hard sauce.
Once more the power of music to
'oothe suffering is borne witness to by
he effect it had upon a number of
patients in an English infrmary. In
1ne case woman who was suffering
rom melancholia was so affected by
lullaby that she spoke for the first
ime in two weeks. The experiment
If distracting the mind by means OF
'ott music was tried in "a hospital ward
where there were fourteen patients,
ind the doctor who watched its effect
'ays: "Four patients were put to sleep
some liked it too well to sleep, and
,thers felt sad, but delighted" Here
s a hint of BEAUTIFUL use that the
,oung woman with musical gifts can
make of her power.
A lamp expert recommends cheese
10th for wiping the lamps, and adds:
Never use scissors to trim wick
\ visiting card is one of the best
one still better, if not con-
idered too much trouble, lis to heat
poker red hot and pass the heated
nd over the wick. This evenly re-
moves all the charred part. Trim a
ound wick toward the center; in
duplex burner, where the wicks are
traight, trim the second wick with
lit of cardboard in an opposite direc-
ion from the way the first is trimmed.
DON'T keep oil in lamps many days
Without burning; it becomes stale
nd smells when lighted. Burners
year out after long and constant use
nd need replacing. To boil them up
nee or twice in good strong soapsuds
Increases the length of their useful
ess."
The underground telephone circuits
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