Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-27
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

lar TO absorb all dampneSS and Kill
disease germs.
A raw egg, taken Immediately, will
carry down a fshbone that cannot be
got UP from the throat.
The white of an egg beaten with
loaf sugar and lemon, relieves hoarse-
ness. Take teaspoonful once every
hour.
If little flour is rubbed over q cake
before icing, it will prevent the frost
ing from spreading and running off
the sides.
To clean copper kettles with little
labor, Use buttermilk and wash al
copper utensils with it. Once week.
will keep them bright and clean.
A piano-lamp is thing of the past
and is now considered a nuisance to
most housewives. The banquet-lamp
is much more popular and decidedly
more useful.
In washing anything made of
chamois skin, use warm water with a
little ammonia in it, and do not wiring
the channels. Press it and rub and
pull it and dry quickly.
There is nothing better for remov-
ing finger prints from furniture than
soft cloth moistened with kerosene.
1t will also remove white spots on
varnish or oiled furniture.
A smooth piece OF walebone, or the
blunt edge of an ivory paper knife, are
good things with which to curl os-
trich feathers. Neither impoverishes
the feather or curls it too tightly.
To set the dye in black stockings,
wash in strong salt and water, then
dry and wash again in another solu-
ton, rinsing, last of all, in clear water.
If done properly, the dye will not
move after this.
A cheaper and purer syrup than
you can possibly buy, is made of a
pint of granulated sugar and just
enough water to keep it from burning
while the sugar mclts. Boil three
minutes and do not stir.
If a spoonful of borax is put into
the water in which white clothes are
rinsed, it will whiten them very much.
The borax should be dissolved in a
little hot water before it is added to
the rinsing water.
If you are obliged to have your
hands in strong, soapy water in wash
ing dishes or other household work,
little vinegar rubbed on them when
taken from the water will improve
them, as we'll as make them white.
Putting the feet in hot water will
invariably cure a headache, from
whatever cause it arises. The head
aches when, from any cause, the little
blood vessels in the brain are too full.
Putting the feet in hot water draws
the blood from the head.
Brittle nails should be rubbed
nightly with little cold cream, vase
line or sweet oil, which will keep
them from breaking. If gloves are
worn at night the tips of fingers
should be cut off, or this practice will
tend to make the nails brittle.
An exceedingly nervous person, who
cannot sleep, may often be quieted
and put to sleep by being rubbed with
towel wrung out of hot sailed water.
Frequently a change from warm
bed to cool one will tend to quiet a
nervous person and make him drowsy.
1t is sometimes useful to know that
teaspoonful of cornstarch is equal to
one egg and may be substituted, in
case OF a scarcity of eggs, for part of
the eggs in a custard or other dishes
where milk and eggs are called for.
Bread that has been cut in slices
and has become stale, may be fresh
ened by LAYING the slices together and
folding napkin around them; put
the napkin in paper bag, then place
the bag in hot oven for few min
utes. The bread will be found quite
fresh and nice.
CARLISLE wants to fund all the
legal tenders. In other words, he
would turn them into an interest.
bearing debt for the benefit OF the
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