Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-26
SOME HOUSEHOLD HINTS

In this day, when white gloves are the
rage, the expense for having the hands
WHITLEY shod" is something enormous.
clean minded woman can't endure the
sight of soiled white glove and every
woman knows that after two or three
cleanings IN benzine gasoline, the stain
of perspiration positively refuses to come
off. Here is something that will be hailed
with delight, but it be used effectively
only on white suede gloves. Put the gloves
on your hands and button them. Have
ready a deep dish Of white cornmeal, and
into this put your hands and rub the
gloves with the meal as though you were
washing your hands with soap. Rub every
inch of the glove carefully but gently. SO
as to not twist it out of shape. and the
dirt and stain will disappear as by magic,
actually sandpapered right off by the corn
meal. After the gloves are cleaned take a
clean, soft CLOTH an old towel is best, and
rub the gloves carefully and well. to re-
move every grain of the meal so that there
will be no flour to spoil a dark dress. You
can clean your gloves just before putting
them on to wear and there will be no I'M
pleasant odor to annoy, which is one Of the
greatest merits.
It is said that a halved onion left over
a
low fever or infectious disease will turn
perfectly black with the germs of pollu-
ton floating in the chamber air. Yet it is
not an uncommon thing to see glasses Of
milk standing uncovered in the sick room,
for hours at time, from which the pa
tent is fed at intervals, or to find dishes
Of fruit and other edibles standing around
ready to give the patient the instant he ex-
presses a desire for them. 1t is criminal
negligence, and the doctor or nurse who
permits 1t is not fit for the office. Neither
food nor liquid that anybody is to partake
of, much less the patient, should stand for
five minutes in the polluted atmosphere Ct
the sick chamber. 1t should be brought in
when desired and removed the instant it
is no longer wanted. Every utensil, every
vessel in sick chamber should be cleansed
the moment it is no longer in use, and the air
should be hourly purified by disinfectants.
among which burning coffee or sugar are
counted the quickest and surest. Such
care as this Is quite as etficacious. often.
as the Doctors stuff.
Bread graters don't cost much, but you
can make one even cheaper than you can
buy one. Take an empty fruit can and
melt the top and bottom off, then melt
open along the one seam. You can do
this by setting it on a red-hot stove and
using a red-hot poker on it. Then lay the
tin on a soft pine board and with a ten
penny nail jab it full Of holes Get piece
of nice pine board about one foot long and
six inches wide, and tack the tin over the
edges of the board that it rounds out
considerably in the center. Fasten at the
two sides only. and have the rough side
out of course.
Here Is an omelette of which it is said
that Washington was extremely fond, and
1t may be so. as he had some odd fancies,
Beat up four eggs, each by itself; into one
egg put chopped apples. into another
asparagus or sorrel, into a third herbs
of some kind, and the fourth is to
be left in it's natural state. Cook each by
The Star does not recommend ii as other
than a curiosity Of gastronomy. like boil
ing ham in rose water, as benighted
anclents used to do.
When you sit for picture select your
gown carefully. with an eye to its effect in
later years. Ii you want your friends to
look with any degree of pleasure upon your
pictured countenance quarter Of a CEN
fury hence do not go to any extreme in
dressing the hair or person. Light, fluffy
waves with tiny fringe of hair over the
forehead and simple knot low upon the
| neck or high on the crown will be a fashion
of which no one will tire. For gown Tor
young person something in the Greek
style Is best, or slightly low-cut bodice
with bertha of lace. The folly Of having
a picture painted in a purely fashionable
gown was lately proven by noted society
woman of New York, who paid several
thousand dollars for a portrait of herself
painted by celebrated artist, who is now,
at the request Of madam. putting q new
"old fashioned" II one could afford
artists for lady's maids, any kind of
gown would do for one could change them
as one does the dresses on paper dolls, but
all are not fortunate. Never, for the
sake of having a picturesque picture, don
articles of wearing apparel that you are
not accustomed at some time to wear.
Such things will make you appear odd and
wear them in your picture. II you are
not accustomed to crimps or curls. don't
attempt to wear them In q picture.
If you want to make a neat job Of mend
ing your glove fingers. turn them inside
out, and, putting the edges carefully to-
fine but firm. SILK thread cuts the kid.
If the glove shows an inclination to break
in the palm or about the fingers, and you
have no old gloves to mena th EN- WIZ WIN,
and put it over the break on the under
side, and darn the glove down on 1t. Some
women mend their gloves by putting
piece of adhesive plaster under the hole.
1t mends. but it also stiffens the kid
Restless children have to be amused, unS
less you want them to make themselves
everything else gives out, let them cut
paper. Supply them with blunt-polnteo
scissors and stack OF old newspapers;
put them down close by the fire and show
them how to cut out the pictures. You
will be surprised to see how interested they
will become in the work. and how still they
viii be. OF course, they make an awful
litter but it is not hard to clean UP cut
paper, and it leaves no soil behind. Be-
sides that you can teach the little ones to
pick up their own muss, making them be-
iieve that they are helping you. After
they get so that they can cut the pictures
out in good shape you can show them how
to preserve the best ones in box. and
when a good collection is made, put them
In a cambria leaf scrap book. for the
amusement OF sick child in some hos
pital, or even for your own child when 1t
is not able to play with the others.