The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-05-11
HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES.


thoroughly, then set them to dry. The
cane will stiffen up to its normal condition.
1t is not always easy to start a fruit jar
cover Instead of wrenching your hands
and bringing on blisters simply invert the
jar and place the top in hot water for a
minute. Then try it and you will find it
turns quite easily.
A valuable assistant on silver cleaning
day is a lemon. If silver, after it cleaned,
is robbed with piece of lemon and then
washed and we'll dried, 1t gets a white
brilliancy which it seldom has otherwise,
and will keep clean longer than with the
ordinary cleansing.
Silk must never be iLoned, as the heat
takes all the life out of it, and makes it
seem stringy and flabby. If, however, you
wish to press out bits of silk and ribbon
for fancy work, use an iron only moder-
ately hot, and place two thcknesses of
paper between that and the silk.
To make mustard plaster for child,
take one tcaspoonfull of ground mustard
and three of flour, with enough water to
make good stiff paste. Spread between
two cloths. For an adult, use one part
mustard to two of flour. Mixed with the
white of an egg it will not raise blister.
If you hate "mussy" things for your
children to play WITH get some carpenter
to cut an inch piece of dressed hard wood
into various lengths for you, having, say,
half dozen pieces of each length and the
lowest pieces two feet long. Having "A
basket for the child to keep the pieces in
and show him how to build rail fence,
block houses and corn cribs.
Some cooks are making crusty bread in
sections of stovepipe. These utensils are
cut in the required length at the tinsmith $
and the edges turned over so the hands
will not be injured The dough made in
placed in it. From this apparently crude
affair comes crusty bread of excellent
quality, if the cook knows her business
Women who have not ball rooms, but
spacious attics with high ceilings, have dis
covered that they are very nice places for
dances or amateur theatricals. With
cheesecloth of pink or yellow for draping
and festooning the walls, linen covered
floors and folding chairs, the room is easily
made ready and the usual order of the
house need not be greatly disturbed.
A novelty for dinner table centre piece
is bright copper bowl, filled with water,
in which were floating glass bubbles and
live goldfish. Surrounding the bowl were
verbenas and in each corner of the table
were placed vase-shaped bottles of pale
green glass filled with branches of apple
blossoms and red Japanese ounce. These
are paper-made, but eXquisitely real.
The right way to roll your umbrella is
to take hold of the ends of the ribs and the
stick with the same hand and hold them
| tightlyenough to prevent their being twisted
while you twirl the cover around with the
other hand 1t is twisting the ribs out of
shape around the stick and fastening them
there that spoils most umbrellas.
Use soapy water when making starch.
The clothes will have glossier appearance
and the irons be less likely to stick
When your bottonhole scallops in your
embroidery says an expert needle woman,
hold the concave edge towards you, and
instead of knotting your thread, which
may cause trouble later, take few run
ming stitches to start the thread. Always
put through the eye of the needle first the
end of the thread which comes off the
spool, and the thread will be less apt to
knot and snarl.
If any part of the body is heated more
than the rest by overdressing it or any
other cause, says medical writer, an
undue flow of blood sets in toward that
part, often resulting in chronic intlamma-
ton. | once knew of fatal cause of
kidney disease developed by working at a
desk with the back near a heated stove.
Similar effects are produced by having one
part of the body more warmly than the
rest.
In roasting meat turn with spoon, in
stead of fork, as the latter pierces the
meat and lets the juice out
Instead of putting food into the oven to
keep hot for late corners, try covering it
closely with tin and setting it over
basin of hot water. This plan will keep
the food hot and at the came time prevent
it from drying.
An English way to cover flower pots is
to paste the narrow ends of the tissue
paper sheet together and cut it off the
right height, making the top edge tulip
pointed. Crimp the paper together in tie
same way as the lamp shade; this will
bring it. about the same size to fit an
ordinary flower pot. Finish with ribbon
of the same shade.
Table. cloths and napkins shold not be
hemmed until they have first been shrunken
but before the shrinking process each one
should be made into its proper length.
this is done they will always fold evenly
when ironed, which is not the case if made
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