Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-21
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Every housewife in the land is now think
Ing OF renovating things. good mixture
Tor vanished or polished furniture is made
OF one-thfrd alcohol and two-thirds sweet
OIL. Apply with a flannel cloth and rub
oriskly with a piece Of dry channels skin.
After squeezing the juice out of a lemon
you can clean your old brass candlesticks
or andirons by dipping the inside of the skin
IN sait and rubbing with visor on the brass
Polish with bit of flannel
Chopped parsley and olives. one table,
spoonful of each to pint of chopped celery
makes delicious salad with French dress,
ing.
II you want something pretty for the chill
dren to look at. buy a cheap sponge, dampen
II, ana then sprinkle fax or grass seed on
IT, and hang by a long string in a SUNNY
, Minaow: In a few days you will have a
peautifui green grass ball. Keep the sponge
very wet, and when the grass begins to die
pull it all off and try again.
Don't permit your little girl to visit her
young friend and then come home and retail
all the gossip she heard there. Gossipers
grow into scandal-mongers, and they are
next 10 thief To steal away character is
vtler than to steal a purse; one can never
be replaced the other can.
When you travel carry flaxseed in your
rocketbook. They will find a cinder or
speck or dirt In your eye in a moment al
most, and save you world of pain.
Make your own cough medicine after this
recipe. and you will know Just exactly what
the baby is swallowing: Slice half dozen
good-sized onions and stew till tender in a
quart OF vinegar. and when done strain the
Juice and pulp through cloth as for Jelly
TO the liquid add coffee cup of sugar and
Dol down one-half; Bottle and keep in a
cool place. A few drops will cure the baby
OF the snfffies, and a teaspoonful will loosen
the cough of an older child. An adult NAV
take two teaspoonsful.
Never eat hearty meal when very tired
unless you want to invite INDIGESTION Take
cup OF not very strong but very hot tea.
freshly made. and eat a cracker or two, ten
minutes before sitting down to the table. 1t
Will rest and refresh you wonderfully.
II mothers only wouldn't worry, 1t takes
the pleasure out of life for everybody, and
worrying never cured evil in the world
worry brings wrinkles to the heart as well
as 10 the lace. 1t makes people dread to
meet you. 1t makes your children fee from
your presence, and drives your husband to
seek pleasant company outside of his home
IN ume tie children lose respect for the
mother who is always worrying, and the
result is misery all around
1t is said that the coffee lover, who finds
that his favorite beverage disagrees with
MIN, may correct the evil by taking the cof-
fee "straight''-without cream or sugar.
Hot water is always recommended for
people with weak digestion, but there are
people who cannot drink hot water at ALL
Try this. In that case: Have the cup hot, and
Into 1t put one teaspoonful of sugar and a
tablespoonful of mi!k-just plain milk-then
pour over this the boiling water 1t takes
away the instpid taste of the water, and
does not injure the digestion either The
quantity Of sugar might be lessened Just
enough to make 1t slightly sweet. Very
delicate digestions have found this to be
beneficial.
Irons gather rust this damp weather. Rub
them over with coal oil before you set them
away. then rub them off with a clean cloth
after they are Slightly heated for use. IL
the rust has already eaten in, pour salt on
a flannel cloth, AMI after they are a little
warm rub them vigorously over the salt.