Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-04-29
HINTS TO HOUSEWIVES.

A whisk Is infinitely better than the
orthodox dust brush for stair carpets.
A little -four drsdged over cake be-
fore icing it will keep the icing from
spreading and runaing of.
Stiff a tablespoonful OF pulverlzed SUI
gar over the top of two-crust pies before
baking aud see how delicious it makes
them.
Chocolate pots, cups and saucers and
bread and butter plates all of one color
are used at informal breakfasts. Blue
and white china is the most fashionable.
You can mend the torn pages OF your
books with tissue paper and white OF an
egg and not make them sesm unsightly,
or keep you from reading right through
the paper.
To render az ordinary boarded floor
the rival OF a hard wood one. putty up
each board, then stain either mahog-
any, walnut or ash. After IL Is dry
varnish twice and fine polish will re-
suit.
To clean enamelled saucepans wash
inside and out with hot water aud soda
and scour with a mixture Of salt and Tue
ashes-two parts ashes TO one OF salt.
Rinse with hot water and dry.
Steel knives used at table or for cut
ting bread, meat, or for anything for
which q sharp knife is needed, should
never be used for stirring or cooking
anything in hot grease, as 1t makes
them very dull.
Use a whisk TO brush of cloth or
chenille table covers and dust out tufted
furniture. Keep one near the kitchen
sink and brush it out frequently with
ammonia and water. Keep one for the
kitchen range.
In warming over potatoes or in using
them in a salad there is an objection TO
q very mealy potatoe. When potatoes
are new they are rarely mealy, and are
therefore particularly nice for salads
and warming over.
When yolks OF eggs are used for
thicksning a soup or sauce beat them
well, then add gill OF cold liquid 10
every two yolks. Stir IL into the hot
LIQUID and stir all the time the dish Is
on the fire, which should never be more
than a minute.
II one is troubled with frequent head
aches or hot aud feyeriSh sensations
before retiring for the night wash the
feet with cold water and thoroughly
heat them before the fire before getting
into bed. This Is particularly beneficial
TO a nervous, irritable child.
For baking bread and pastry have an
oven that will in five minutes turn a
piece OF paper dark brown. When the
oven is too hot at first a crust forms on
the bread or cake, which prevents its
rising. Ii is better 10 have the oven
little slow az first and increase the heat
in little while.
Few housekeepers know the value Of
a whisk broom. When you have one
that is half worn out and breaks of and
causes much disaster in its legitimate
work of clothes brushing, relegate IL 10
your bathroom and use it for cleaning
the bathtub. 1t Is quite as good as a
scrubbing brush, very much handler
and should the tub be enameled is not
hard on the paint
To clean silver first wash or remove
all the grease from the silver, then rub
with a wooden cloth wet with ammonia
and whiting, and polish on the chased
and flagres parts with a toothbrush.
This whiting is wet with ammonia and
made into cakes or boxes, aud agents
are around selling it for 50 cents box,
that, the probability is, cost them 10
cents. IL is good TO clean glass windows
and all kinds OF glassware with.
Ammonia is fine for household clean
sing, but il never was meant 10 be used
on the flesh. Sal soda, or washing soda,
as il is sometimes called, is much nicer
than ammonia aud is cheaper BOraX
is better than either, but, of course,
costs more. II you want 10 see how
ammonia treats things put few drops
on a cloth aud rub a painted door; it
will take the paint of in an instant.
That ought 10 teach sensible women
that il will dry out and render the skin
liable TO crack.