Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-21
HINTS TO HOUSEWIVES.

Milk, applied once a week with a
soft cloth. freshens and preserves boots
and shoes.
Acid phosphate will remove ink
stains from the hands when every.
thing else fails.
One OF the easist ways of taking
cold" to use a misnomer, is to drop
asleep without an extra wrap over the
shoulders.
These are the days when extra care
should be taken to keep the feet per.
fectly dry. A fresh nair of stockings
should be used every day.
Canned tomatoes are more delicious
baked than stewed. About ten min
utes before removing from the oven
spread buttered bread crumbs over the
top.
Calicoes. ginghams and chambrays
cannot be properly washed along with
the white clothes. They need much
quicker process, and the long delays
of all ordinary wash day would ruin
them.
Two uses OF eggs are not generally
known or appreciated. A fresh egg
beaten and thickened with sugar,
freely eaten, will relieve hoarsness, and
the skin of boiled egg wet and ap-
piled to boil will draw out soreness.
A "dress improver" is something
very nice to have. 1t is a somewhat
new idea. It is made OF the very
lightest haircloth, does not weigh IA
pound and does away with the need OF
heavy skirts, keeping the dress in
proper lines.
To prepare an egg for sick person,
beat the egg until very light; add
seasoning to taste, and then steam
until thoroughly warmed through.
This will not take more than two
minutes. The most delicate stomach
will be able to digest it.
To keep irons from rusting wrap
them in common brown paper and
put them away in dry place. If
they have become rusty they may be
made smooth and bright by putting
some white sand on a smooth board
and rubbing the iron over it several
times.
Cheese is valuable as an aid to di-
gestion and rs q nourishment for
quickly repairing the waste in the
tissues. After a feast, wise men take
cheese to help digest the other foods.
Physicians never deny their patients
craving for cheese, as it seldom dis
agrees.
To sweeten the breath and prevent
liberation of the stomach that gener-
ally proceeds from an ill-conditioned
stomach take as much bicarbonate OF
soda as you can put on five cent
nickel, dissolve in a small glass of
water and take before breakfast once
or twice week.
Silver or steel thimbles are the only
kinds ever to be used. Other compo.
sitions OF which cheap thimbles arc
made are very frequently of lead or
pewter, and their use is likely to re-
suit in serious Inflammation and swell
ing if there is even q slight scratch on
the finger.
To wash ones hair is a matter re.
quiring time, or, at any rate, the dry.
ing of it requires time. To have ones
hair washed is sometimes matter of
too great expense. A dry shampoo
saves the time of the busy woman and
the money of the poor one. 1t re-
moves dust and dandruff almost as
we'll as washing.
A refreshing drink is quickly made
by putting into tumbler liberal
tablespoonful of any kind OF syrup
pineapple is always successful-a
tablespoonful of thick cream and then
filling glass from syphon OF iced
soda water. This is q drink particu-
larly suitable for garden and tennis
parties. Straws should be furnished
for such drinks as contain cracked ice
and fruit slices.
The hair should be loosened, then
every inch of the scalp should be gent
ly rubbed until all the dust and dam
druf are loosened. The hair should
be parted in different parts of the
head and brushed with q very stiff
little brush until the scalp is clean
and the hair also. Then it should be
rubbed with alcohol or some hair
tonic and the snarls gently combed
and brushed out.
To clean oilcloth. take a pail of
clean, soft, lukewarm water and q
nice soft piece OF flannel. Wash the
oilcloth and wipe very dry, so that no
drop OF water is left 10 soak into it.
After washing and drying, if a cloth is
wrung out of dish of skim milk and
water, and the oilcloth is rubbed over
with this and then again we'll dried,
the freshness and lustre of the cloth
will repay the extra labor.
To set the colors, soak the dress q
few minutes before beginning the reg
ular washing. If there is much pink,
purple, lavender, or green in the
goods, strong, cold alum water is the
best. For reds, browns and the like,
use about one ounce of sugar of lead
to a gallon of water. For black and
white combinations whether striped or
in the form OF gray, dissolve two hand
fuls of salt in a tub OF cold water.
The iron bedstead is superior to the
wooden one, so far as the sanitary
principles 60, but the latter may be
made less q menace to health if every
week the housekeeper attends person.
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