The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Old-Fashioned Hoardhound Candy<
Good for coughs and hoarseness. Boil
one ounce of dried hoarhound in lit
tie over half a pint of water for half
an hour. Strain, add nearly two
pounds of brown sugar and boil until
hard when tested. Pour into creased
pans.-N. Y. Tribune.
Cleanse light summer wooilens
which are easily soiled with finely
powdered French chalk. The soiled
parts should be thickly covered with
the chalk, which should be allowed to
remain for one or two days, and then
removed with a camefs hair velvet
brush. In most cases this treatment
will cause the spots to disappear.
-Cucumbers should be gathered
while the dew is yet on them, and put
Immediately on the ice. An hour be-
fore dinner pare and slice them very
thin, and let them lie in sailed lee
water till dinner is ready, then drain
them, and put them into glass dish,
and sprinkle bits of ice over them
Serve them with French dressing in
separate dish.-Boston Budget.
"A pretty guest card seen at din
ner where the flowers were all pink
roses, was single good-sized rose-leaf
made of water-color paper and tinted
pink. The leaves of many other flow
ers could be used in the same way or
split peapods, cabbages, or other veg
etablcs could be cut from the same
board and painted the proper colors-
If a menu card is desired there may be
white leaves inside the tinted ones.
Salad Serving.-A good way to
serve salad for dinner or lunch is to
hollow out as many tomatoes as there
are guests. Fill each with salad
Chicken, potato, or any Variety, add
ing a spoonful of mayonnaise sauce
Serve each on a lettuce leaf. The con-
trast between the scarlet of the to-
matoes, the creamy yellow of the may
onnaise, and the green of the lettuce
leaves is very striking, and looks most
appetising.-Mercury.
Mrs. Rorer, in the Household News,
says: II advocate the general use of
oatmeal mush for breakfast. 1t is
wholesome, and, if properly prepared,
will be relished by almost every one
after little use. One of its advan-
tages is that, while it is being served,
the cook has time to broil her steak or
make her omelets. just as the family is
sitting down to the table, and she is
ready to serve them smoking hot az
soon as the oatmeal dishes are re-
moved"
"A number of little things in tho
care of ones brushes determines the
length of their service and the condi-
ton in which they last. For one thing,
hair brush should be washed often
enough to keep it cleansed. For this,
soda water or ammonia water must be
used, and then the wet bristles set
downward and left in the sun to dry.
A nail or tooth brush should never be
left in the holder with the bristles up
permost. The water will soak into
them with such treatment. and diseol-
Grafton and general decentralization
will follow.
The best way to serve after-dinuer
coffee if the day is very warm is to
freeze it and make it answer for a
sweet course. Use four ounces of DOW
dered coffee to every quart of water
As soon as the water boils, put the cof-
fee in a double boiler, turn TIE water
over it, cover and put over the fire
eight minutes. Strain until perfectly
clear, add eight ounces of sugar, stir
until it is dissolved, and set aside to
cool. Then add the white of an egg
and half a pint of sweet cream, both
Freeze as you do sherbets
and serve in punch glasses.