The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-01-17
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.

Repeated applications OF alcohol
will remove grass stains from any white
material.
Soap bark is about the best thing that
you can find for a wash for the hair,
and thirty grains Of quinine to pint
of bay rum the best and cheapest tonic
You can mend the torn pages of your
books with tissue paper and white OF
an egg, and not make them unsightly
or keep you from reading right through
the paper.
A nail or toothbrush should never be
left in the holder with the bristles up
permost. 1t stands to reason that
water will soak into them in time with
such treatment.
For a weak person when bathing,
especially in summer, a gill of am
monia in small tub of water, or some
rock salt, is wonderful invigorator,
almost as good as sea bath.
Soiled black garments may be
cleaned by sponging with clear black
coffee with an equal quality of water
added, and teaspooful each OF am
monia and alcohol for each pint.
When tooth brushes have been dis
carded from further use in the toilet,
do not throw them away, but relegate
them to the kitchen, where they will
be found useful for a variety of pur-
poses. They are indispensable in
cleaning the burners of gasoline stoves
and are found handy in cleaning lamp
burners. The moderately one
should be kept for this purpose. A
very soft one is excellent for cleaning
the repousse work on silver.
An experienced cabinet maker says
the best preparation for cleaning pic
ture frames and restoring furniture,
especially that somewhat marred OF
scratched, is mixture of three parts
of linseed oil and one part spirits of
turpentine. 1t not only covers the dis
figured surface, but restores wood to its
original color, leaving lustre upon the
surface. Apply with wooden cloth
and when dry rub with wooden.
Frosted peaches make a pretty dish
and are easily prepared. Take twelve
nice-looking peaches and with coarse
cloth rub off the fuzz; then roll then
in powdered sugar, and set them W
carefully in sheet of white paper OF
waiter and put in the sun. Wher
they are half dry roll again in the
sugar and expose them again to thu
sun and breeze until the sugar is quite
hard, and then put in the Refrigerator
until ready to serve.
An English way of preparing frui
for the nursery table is to put it in
stone jar with a cover, ana to set thi
jar in a pot of cold water. Bring i
to a slow boil, and afterward set i
at the back of the range for seven O
eight hours letting it boil slowly al
the while. Then stake off the ja
and let it get perfectly cold before us
ing Eaten with plenty of sugar ant
cream, fruit cooked in this way is mos
healthful and is a capital addition t.
the children's supper.
, A correspondent of the "Scientifi
, American" says: Before being allowe
to get dirty Or greasy tie all the broker
: pieces in the places nicely with an
3 kind of string that suits, then put il
an iron or tin dish that can be put o.
f the fire, pour in as much milk as will
cover the fractures well, put on the fir
I and boil, for say ten minutes, and tn
t whole operation is complete. DON
f undo the wrappinguntil the dish is com
= pletely cold, and if yours hold as our
: do you will call it a success