Evening star., 1896-02-22
HoUsEH OLD HINTS

Rice Waff1es will be good excuse for
using up leftover rice. Mix cupful of
cold boiled rice and pint OF hot milk to-
gether till smooth, then add a teaspoonful
of salt and three well-beaten eggs. Stir
slowly into this enough flour only to make
a thin batter, and fry as you would griddle
cakes. If you want more cakes. add milk
and -four.
You can clean decanters and vinegar
cruets with very fine shot, ashes and water.
Or you can take the fine, gritty ashes from
the ash bin. Put a tablespoonful or two
IN the bottle, then few drops of ammonia
and warm water, shake for few moments,
then rinse the bottle, and you will find 1t as
clear as crystal.
If your store room is very warm you will
find it hard to keep lemons. Try packing
them in sawdust, taking out a few at a
time.
The woman who will persist in washing
oilcloth in soap and water hasn't the first
Instinct of economy in her makeup. Both
water and soap eat out the oil and rot the
cloth. Use buttermilk or skim milk and
clean cloth. 1t viii take very little, and
will save you dollars. The little dribs of
milk that are left over will do as well as
anything. if saved, no matter If sour.
It is said that cockroaches can be killed
by sprinkling borax about the room that
they infect. Another method Is to place
deep tin vessel with perfectly smooth
sides in the middle of their run, and put
some sweet cake in the bottom. Then place
a lath or two from the floor to the top Of
the bucket on the outside. The reaches
will run up the laths to get to the sweet
cake. ard, dropping over, are unable to
get out and are at your mercy in the
morning. 1t is related that houses badly
infested with them have been absolutely
cleared by this means.
Lots of people sniff at the idea. of eating
dried fruit. They don't know how to cook
it, you know. 1t should be we'll washed in
several waters then set to soak over night
in enough water to cook it in. In the
morning put it on the back of the stove
and cook slowly for an hour or more if
necessary to cook done. Put in the sugar
with liberal hand and for goodness sake
don't stir and stir and stir till the fruit is
a hopeless mass. Shake it gently now and
then to keep it from cooking to the bottom
of the pan, and cook in stone pan, too
Then you will have fruit that is fit to eat
Some people who have children ought
to have wooden dummies to practice on
awhile. Do you know that you run the
risk of giving your baby brain fever when
you tax its little few-weeks' -old brain by
talking to it and chirping to make it
smile? Do you know that it is positive
cruelty to animals to take a wee bit of a
baby out on a noise-Iacking cable cleo
trio car? Let your baby stay at home the
first year of its life, except the daily air
ing it takes in it's cab or mothers arm,
and when it grows up it won't have rick
cts, weak eyes, deaf ears, and nerves"
Mothers are largely responsible for the
ills of their children. And thoughtlessness
is their besetting sin.
If coffee seems to disagree with you, try
drinking 1t without cream or sugar.
Order in the house should be smiling
presence, not a sour tyrant.
To remove stubborn glass stopper from
bottle light match and run around the
neck OF the bottle. Sometimes it will take
two matches. If that doesn't start it,, i'm
merse the bottle in warm water and let
it come to the boiling point, almost
there. That is sure to start it.
A red hct bath-that means a bath in
water just as hot as you can possibly en-
dure twill sometimes put you to sleep in
hVe minutes, even when you are on the
verge of desperation with insomnia. A
change from your warm bed to a cold one
Will often produce a feeling of drowsiness
Rubbing down with towel dipped in salt
water is another excellent remedy, or one
dipped in hot water Some people lie with
the head lower than the feet and find re-
lief that way.
Every few days some new cosmetic comes
out, and the silly moth who have
complexion like tanned leather rush off and
try it. Finding that the cosmetic is not
what 1t ought to be, they resort to max
ing up to make them presentable. This
making-up business is simply awful! No
woman with grain of sense would expect
10 iool people by painting her cheeks as
red as Comanche Indian, and filing the
pores of her skin with white lead bismuth
and the like, for she knows that the subter-
fuge is patent to all. 1t makes people feel
sorry for the poor, deluded woman too
1t was, perhaps, a doctor who said: "All
the lotions and creams, the paint and pow-
der, in all the beautiful establishments in
all this beautiful world will not give an
unhealthy woman good complexion. Her
digestion must be good: her blood must
be well nourished and her skin must be
absolutely clean if she wants to be at
tractive. That means a sensi lie Diet plenty
of exercise to aid digestion, plenty of fresh
air TO refresh the blood i'll the lungs and
a full bath every day to keep the skin
clean. The kitchen and gymnasium are
more important than the toilet table in
developing good looks, and the bath room
lis most important Of ALL