Evening star., 1896-12-05
H O U S E HOLD HINT S

Try TO win the confidence of your chill
dren. If you don't somebody else will.
Children want somebody to lean upon and
look up to just exactly as older people do,
and IL they are not drawn toward their
parents, somebody else will get hold of
their affections, and the influence may be
bad.
Never cook oatmeal rapidly. for 1t is apt
to make 1t bitter and it will cook to the
bottom of the dish. Neither should it be
stirred much. for that makes it Shiny.
A nice soap for boys to use in winter.
when their hands get grimy in spite of all
caution, is made of good toilet soap and
sard or Indian meal. Cut the soap in bits
and put to melt in tablespoonful of water
Add a teaspoonful Of boraX and quarter
tcaspoonful Of mutton tallow and two ta-
blespoonfuls of fine. clean sand or Indian
meal. Pour in a mold to cool. This soap
Is softentng. and the sand helps to clean
the dirt out of the rough skin.
Save your egg shell to clean bottles, vine
gar cruets and the like. Put away in a
paper sack, and when you get ready to
wash your bottles crush a lot of the egg
shells to fine bits and put them in the bot
ties with clean. soapy water, and shake
well. 1t will clean and not scratch the
llBeSl grass.
An excellent household remedy for burns
or for chapped hands is made OF equal
parts of sweet Oil and strong lime water
For burns apply as ointment and wrap in
cloth saturated with 1t. Wash and rinse
the chapped hands in warm water and rub
the ointment well in.
An economical hook for clothes can be
made by driving nails through spools, bury
ing the head of the nail in the spool In
rpSnactS a no hon
hooks, because they don't punch holes in
the clothes.
When stone china used about the stove In
cooking gets brown from long use, scour 1t
with ashes or brckdust and soap.
1t is said that lamp wicks dipped in vine
gar and dried without squeezing will never
smoke.
When the tops Of glass fruit jars refuse
to bulge. dip thick cloth In boiling water
and wrap about the cap. In five minutes
they Will come off easily.
Don't let children go to bed with cold
feet. 1t is prolific source of colds, Group
and leads to catarrhal troubles.
Good company and good converse ton are
the very sinews of virtue; add to these
good literature. and the man or woman
who INDUCES in them will make a good
citizen ard worthy member of society.
Coal oil is splendid thing to use on
hard leather shoes, to set away wet to dry.
Wash the shoe free Of dust and mud with
soap and water, then rub the coal Oil In
and set away over night.
Oil and grease spots on wall paper NAV
be removed by making a paste of pipe clay
or Fuller's earth, which spread on the spot
and leave over night. On knocking it off
the next morning the spot. if not old will
scarcely be discernible. If it is old apply
again.
A hn hal 81,
on doing things in the old clumsy way.
after a new idea has been proven good
cleans her window glass and mirrors by
saiinating tissue paper with coal oil and
soft. clean cloth. She says that flies do not
trouble her much in summer either, when
she cleans her windows and paint with coal
Oil.
oilcloths will last considerably longer on
the floors if one or two layers of CARPET or
moor IS phenomenally smooth the edges
or the boards curl almost imperceptibly and
wear through the oicloth.
A nice Goldfish dish. One cup of finely
picked and freshened Goldfish; two cups of
potatoes. chopped fine: one beaten egg;
nan cup OF butter; re cer to taste. Mix
we'll and bake half an hour.
Dusting cloths should be cleaned or
changed every few days, or thew will leave
more dirt than they take off,
tablespoonful of turpentine in boiler
OF clothes will whiten them without harm.
Handle carefully, as turpentine Is inflam-
mable
delicious oyster dish is made as fol-
lows: Toast fresh bread quite brown and
put In shallow dish. Heat the oyster
liquor to the boiling point. season lightly
with salt, pepper and butter; then put in
the oysters. let them boil up once, then
pour over the toast, which has been kept
hot, and serve.
Ringworms come without bidding and 20
reiuctantiy. An excellent remedy is to
wash with strong solution of borax water
Inree times a day. Then dust with fine
dry powder.
II you have no dark place to keep your
canned fruit in wrap in brown paper and
write the name on the outside, SO you can
find it easily. e''i