Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-16
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

| HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Somebody said, once upon time that
peace at dinner table assists digestion.
| Angry words stir up bile" That some
| body was a philosopher of the first water.
One of the surest ways Of inviting indi-
| gestion is to eat when angry, to get
| into heated discussions at the table, Good
| conversation of a cheerful sort is to be
recommended, but to have to sit and listen
| to a tale of woe half an hour in length, or
| to have ones wife storm and rant over
household difficulties, or the head of the
family come home mad about something
| that has happened down in the city ond
| vent his spite on his unoffending family
ell through the meal, is to be deplored. A
| sour face at meal time will throw shadow
| over the spirits of all, so if you have any,
thing diSagreeable TO impart, keep it till
after the meal is disposed of, and get 1t
| out Of your own mind if possible till you
| have strengthened yourself with well-cook-
ed food. You will often find that the color
| of the world is quite different when you
| ccme to look at it after dinner. The trou-
bled housewife will find. too. that she is
much more likely to get sympathetic at
tention from the head of the house after
| he has been fed than she could get when
| he was tired and hungry.
|
The other day a woman who ought TO
have had more sense put mustard on a
| chicken salad. Mustard improves a lob
ster, but ruins chicken Remember that.
| Some women who are economical Of
| strength only take up their carpets once
year to shake them, because there is no dirt
| in them A great fallacy A thick carpet
catches and holds a vast amount of dust,
which will rise in cloud when you sweep
and then settle back on the carpet again,
where it lies cutting out your pretty car
pet throughout the whole year. For sani-
| tary reasons carpets should be taken up at
| least twice year. and for economical rea-
sons. as often as possible The fine parti-
| Giles of dust and sand cut and rot a car
pet very rapidly.
If the steak for breakfast was so tough
that but little of 1t was eaten, fix II up for
| lunch this way: Put it over the fire in
enough cold water to cover it, and let it
simmer gently for an hour or more Just
| about an hour before lunch line deep pie
dish with biscuit dough that has been
made very short and rolled to quarter of
an inch thick. Into this dish put small
pieces of the meat dipped from the gravy
in which it was cooked, and freed from all
gristle and the bone. Slice one small po-
tato very thin over the meat, put in some
chunks of sweet butter season as YOU like
best, put on all the gravy in which the
meat was cooked, sprinkle a little flour on
top and put the cover of nice thick crust
over the dish and set in the oven to bake
for half an hour. Good, hot or cold.
Fruit of some kind, fresh, and eaten on
rising, is a splendid tonic for most people
Very many cases of periodical sick head
ache have been relieved by taking glass
of freshly made lemonade on rising A
severe attack of indigestion can be relieved
in an hour by eating two or three juicy
apples. People generally do not under
stand the sanitary uses of fruit BY con-
slant use it will correct nearly all typhoid
and bilious tendencies.sif it is perfectly
fresh and in no way tainted with rotten
specks. Oranges are generally cheap IN
this latitude, and they are considered
among the best of fruits for helping diges-
ION Ina in Ia
evening will help a torpid liver wonder
fully.
To make your clothes-pins last a long
time without splitting, and to clean them
as well, scrub them in strong soapsuds
| and then put them in the boilsuds and boil
them few moments. Rope clothes lines
kind once in while also.
If your child is left-handed let it remain
SO, but teach it to use its right and left
hand alike. To be sure, a left-handed per-
son looks awkward at work, but it is a
blessed good thing to be able to use both
hands alike, when accident disables the
one that you favor most.
When potatoes begin to get old and
strong they have to be treated in some
way to make them palatable. Try this:
Peel and slice rather thin and put in layers
in a deep DISH sprinkling with salt After
| the dish is filled pour in full of nice sweet
milk, and over the top put bits of butter.
Put IN the oven and bake till done. The
milk should Just cover them.
Lentcn dishes are in order and here is
a delicious one for a breakfast: Pick a
| pint of Goldfish to shreds and soak it over
night in quart of cold water which pour
| off in the morning, and put on it another
| quart of cold water; then set on the stove
to cook. Into a heaping tablespoonful of
| butter put heaping tablespoonful of flour,
| and rub till smooth. Pour the water off
the fish and put over 1t a pint of sweet
milk or cream and let it come to the boil
| ing point. If the milk is bit old it will
| 0urdle. Toast half a dozen slices of bread,
| stir the butter and flour in the fish and let
| it cook five minutes, then turn it over the
| toast, arranged on a hot platter. Another
| nice dish made the same way is to line a
deep dish with a layer of toast and a layer
| of the fish. having the fish top, then
put little shreds of butter on the top, and
| set in the oven to brown.
If you can't have anything but bread and
| butter, baked apples and coffee for dinner,
| set the table as carefully with clean linen
and bright cutlery and glassware as
though you had twelve-course menu. A
dainty table will make up for many short
| comings in variety. And then, you can't
expect that children will be neat and
| dainty in their table manners wien you
are at no pains to make the table neat and
dainty for them. Having got your table
nicely set, fix yourself up for the meal
Don SIT uo"n 10 II with your hair tow
| sled and your sleeves rolled up. A woman
who has to do much of her own work
ought to be well supplied with cotton
gowns that are simply made, and that can
| be Numbered. She can have one ready to
| slip on at an instants notice, and always
be neatly and becomingly clad for all sud
| den company, which always upsets a
woman because she is not eft to be SEEM"
| With cottons at 4 and cents a yard a
calico gown for work would not cost above
! 90 cents.
What Constitutes Success.