Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-11
HINTS FOR HOUSE WIVES.

Cut glass should be washed with hat
suds and brush to clean all the small
divisions of the pattern.
When ink has been split on a carpet,
wash at once with tepid water and soap,
or amonia, greatly diluted.
For delicate women who are exhaust
ed with the slightest exertiOn an
alcohol sponge bath is on excellent slim
ulant.
Flour absorbs odor easily and should
therefore not be kept where onions,
fish, cheese or other odorOus substances
are.
One Of the simplest ways OF dlsinfect-
ing a room is to pour a drachm or two
of sulphuric acid on a saucer OF salt, set
ia tire middle of the room, the fumes do
the disinfecting.
The cardinal rule in a kitchen is to
clean up as you 60, and if attended to
this saves half the labor and fatigue
cooks suffer from who pursue the old
method of having a grand and compre-
hensive 'clean up"
Turnips boiled with their jackets on
are of better favor and less watery. A
small lump OF sugar added while the
vegetable is cooking corrects the bitter
ness often found in them. II to be ser
we'd, mash through a colander.
II the finger MARKS on your vanished
hardwood furniture won't come of, dip
the cloth in kerosene and rub the wood
vigorously. Afterward rub brisklY
With soft piece OF flannel. You will
be pleased with the result.
When oiled walnut furniture begins
to grow dingy it can be made TO look as
fresh as new by reoiling. Linseed, or
even olive oil, may be used, but pure,
good kerosene oil is much the best.
Rub it we'll in wish a soft wooden rag,
and polish with clean, dry flannel.
II you want a bright, hot fire in the
crate, range, or base burner. keep the
ashes cleaned up. Ashes absorb enor-
nous quantities Of heat, and add TO the
consumption of coal Ode bucket OF
"black diamonds" will do the work OF
two the CRATES are kept clear OF dead
aches.
Steel knives or ather articles which
become rusty should be rubbed with
little sweet oil, then left for a day or
two in dry place and then rubbed with
finely powdered unslaked lime until
every vestige Of the rust has disappear
ed and kept in dry place wrapped up
in bis OF flannel.
Burning paper in the cook stove will
kill the fire aud it packs down In the
most ANNOYING fashion. There is dang
er. too, on a windy day, OF firing the
SCOT in the chimney. The best thing to
do is 20 stuff the waste paper in a bag
kept for the purpose and on dry day,
free from wind, take 10 TO the alley or
some spot in the back yard and burn il.
If you keep sneezing and have SEN
sations OF chiilness 10 IS q fair sign Of
coming cold. Sometimes it can be
broken quite effectually by hot lemon
ade. Get the lemon and sugar ready
and set the water boiling. Then battle
the feet in not water, or take hot
bath all over. Retire Immediately and
have brought to you the glass OF lemon
and sugar over which the boiling
water has been poured. Drink it down
as hot as possible. You won't have
symptom Of cold in the morning.
One OF the handiest pieces Of furni-
ture about kitchen table is thick lip
ped oyster shell. 1t makes a much
nicer Dot and skillet scraper than al
Iron dish cloth" The chain arrange
ments which are used for that purpose
are all abominations. They get full OF
inHnitesimal bits OF cabbage, burned
potatoes, bits of fried onion, broiled
steak and the like, ard only bath Of
concentrated lye and the application Of
scrub brush will clean them. An oy-
sler shell can be kept IS clean as a Sill
yer spoon.