Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-25

or two. They will come out as fres
| and clean as ever.
1t is said that new potato grated
| finely, and then used instead of soap
to wash with is good. The juice of the
! potato, raw, of course, contains some
principle that acts quickly and bene-
ficially on the skin.
Salad dressing does not often re-
| quire the cook stove to prepare it
since oil, vinegar, cream and eggs may
! be used. The taste and sentiment OF
every individual may be consulted by
! varying the form of service to any
! conceivable extent.
! A good recipe for orange water ice
is: One quart water, one pound sugar,
| the outer rind of one and the juice of
| three or four oranges. Strain into a
| can and pack ice and salt around it,
| and freeze and scrape it down until it
! is sufficiently frozen.
| Pulverized potash, which soon be-
comes sticky when exposed to the air,
| Should be put in all the rat holes about
| the house. Some persons find a mix
ture of equal parts of Cayenne pepper
and Scotch snuff sprinkled well into
| the holes to be still more efficacious.
"A little pulverized borax, if sprinkled
| thickly on flannel cloth that is wet in
hot water and well soaped will
brighten a copper kettle like magic,
; ri 1l,.icr hi
rusty and lblackened knives so quickly
as raw potato cut in half and dipped
in brick dust.
When fine china plates are set UP in
a pile in the closet there is need of
something to act as a buffer to pro-
: tect them. For this purpose some
women make a number of small
rounds of felt which are finished by
being pinked about the edge One of
these is put between every two of the
plates.
Hot, dripping toast is a luxury when
properly prepared. Put a good lump
of fresh, sweet beef dripping into a
frying pan; when it boils, and not be-
fore, place nicely shaped squares of
thick bread in it; turn when Drowned
ON one side Dish up very hot, with
a slight sprinkling of salt and pepper.
New fruit stains, when fresh, may
be removed by pouring boiling water
through the stained portion until the
spot disappears. Old fruit stains may
be removed with oXalic acid. Wash
the stained portion in the acid till
clear; rinse at once in rain water, as
the acid with attack the fabric if left
upon it. Then wet the spot in am
monia and give a final rinsing.
Tea, coffee and undoubtedly cocoa
stains, even those which have been
previously washed, may be rubbed in
lavalle water, if the fabric stained be
white, otherwise the color will be
bleached. Take a half pint of the
lavalle water to a quart of clear water
and let the stained portion of the
cloth soak in lit for several hours, then
rinse thoroughly in three waters.
One of the many economical dishes
that may he prepared to utilize the
pieces of cold meat left from dinner is
after the following recipe:-Place an
onion with the meat and chop both
very fine, add salt, black pepper. but
ter and as much cold mashed potato
as there is meat. Mix these ingredients
we'll and bake in "a buttered pudding
dish in the oven. Garnished with
parsley and served hot this dish is
tempting and palatable.
Rust and ink stains should be rubbed
with juice of lemon and the spot then
covered with salt and the cloth placed
in the sun. If this treatment does not
serve to remove the stain, or if the
fabric is colored, and so cannot be
treated with the lemon juice, oXaIic
acid may he used as for old fruit
stains. Still another treatment is to
apply a mixture of two parts tartar
and one part powdered alum; this lat
ter is good for a variety of stains
which fail under other methods.
Silver is most quickly cleaned by
washing in hot water and ammonia,
drying Immediately and polishing with
a chamois skin, and when much
chased an old toothbrush dipped in the
ammonia water and then into whiting
will rub out the tarnish. It must then
be washed and polished like the
palmer pieces. Another old toothbrush
is good for washing out the corners of
window panes. An old paint brush
dipped in hot suds is good for clean
ing outside window lodges.