Evening star., 1896-07-04
H o VI EHoLD HINTS

it closely for a wek or two before setting
away in the fruit closet. If 1t begins to
bubble the least bit, you maybe sure that
1t is inclined to work" Tumble it into the
stewpan and give 1t thorSugh cooking
at once. Sweeten it well and let the sugar
stew in. Examine the rubbets and the lid
of the jar to see If they ff perfectly. II
they do not. you may as Well abandon
them and get new ones. ~,
Remember you can ruin sweet corn and
peas by cooking them too. long. When
cooking peas, press one or twei against the
side of the pan. If they break they are
quite done. If hard, cook little longer.
Corn on the cob is done when the grain
does not spring back at pressure from the
fork.
II you would not ruin your pickles or
nice salads buy only the pure fruit vine
gars or make your own, which is better
still. store vinegar Is often a villainous
compound, actually poisonous.
Soup sticks are simply delicious. When
your light bread dough is just ready to
make into loaYes, cut off a teacupful of
1t and place on the molding board. Cut off
little bits of this and make nine-nch long
strips not bit bigger round than a lead
pencil. by rolling under your hand Lay
the strips evenly in well buttered pan at
least an inch apart, and sprinkle with fine
salt. When they are quite light bake
or in celery glass. They are nice for
soup In lieu of crackers.
For lunch make little meat pies to use
up the scraps. Take all the nice scraps of
veal, beefsteak or roast ham, fried or
Boiled, and the left over cooked eggs and
nlince them in the chopping bowl, salt and
pepper to taste. Put in a dash of nutmey
tablespoonful of butter to a cupful of
the meat. and two tablespoonful of dry fine
bread crumb. Beat one egg. stir into It
three or four tablespoonful of soup stock,
then stir all into the minced meat Line
pattie pans with thinly rolled biscuit
dough, fill each shell with the mince and
auJ.s. d pastry cover with fork holes in
IL. Bake twenty minutes.
II the babies are teethng and fretful,
watch their diet closely. Summer COM
piaint in the little ones is quite often the
fauit of the mother. who lets her teething
Daoy eat new potatoes and string beans,
tomatoes and cucumbers. A child with
bowel trouble should have starchy foods,
and very little fruit. No meat at all un-
less it be salt meat like bacon. A little
sweet salt meat is often recommended
never let the sick child have hot cakes or
biscuit. Graham bread a day or two old
is best.
Just blossom or two with some green
leaves will Tighten the table wonderfully,
reach the children to bring in clover
blooms and blue grass, with the graceful
SEED heads. II you have not finer flowers
1t will teach them to see beauty in small
things. and to make the most Of their sur
roundings.
While the old saying children should be
seen not heard has a good deal of hard
sense in 1t. you are apt to do sensitive
children an injustice by repressins them
too much. Mix judgment with discretion
In training children. Never permit them to
be forward. but don't repress them too
much.
Don't put strings on the school aprons
1t takes more goods. more time to make,
tie They are always tearing the apron.
catching on everything and are really
dangerous.
Tumbiers that have been used for milk
should never be put into hot water until
they have first been rinsed in cold water
The heat drives the milk In and gives q
cloudy appearance to tn. glass; which can
not be removed.
An easy way to remove> sre+s of paint
from glass is to make a strong solution
Of soda in hot water and wash the glass
with a flannel dipred in this.
Clothing that has becone spotted and
whose color has been destroyed by acids
may have the2~color restored by applying
ammonia and .afteIward chioroform.
Many things can be busted with a damp
cloth. followed by a dry one, with advan-
ldse, anu tIllS pan Will remove the Dust
as no dry cloth can.
The following simple method of keeping
ice water in a common pitcher is worth
knowing: Put a layer Of cotton batting
between two sheets of wrapping paper
three inches higher than the pitcher. Fas-
ten the ends of the paper and batting to-
gether, forming a circle. Paste a cover
over one end Of the batting and paper.
This cover, when over q pitcher must
come close to the stand and SO exclude
the air. and ice will keep a long time. This
paper cover Will be found of great servi .e
in a sick room for both milk and water
pitchers.
Occasionally your pet canary bird should
b. fed with a hard-boiled egg, chopped
fine and mixed with cracker crumbs, CIV
Ing 1t not more than a thimbleful of the
mixture at q time.
Wash goods liable to fade should be
washed in a strong solution of salt, al
loving cup of salt to a quart of hot wa
ter. While the water Is warm put the
material In and let it lie for time; then
take out and wash in the usual way.
Ripe tomatoes Will remove almost any
kind Of stain from the hands, and they
can also be used to great advantage on
white cloth, removing ink spots, as we'll as
many others.
The Perennial Pea.