Evening star., 1897-05-15
H 0 U S EHOLD HINTS

put on bedsteads. will soon abate the nuis-
ance known as bedbugs. To carefully var
nish the bed Stats and all rough portions
of the bedstead will help to prevent their
getting nesting place.
You are getting ready in a hurry to go
On a sudden picnic party or wheeling trip,
where little lunch is needed, and there
seems to be nothing in the house to pre-
pare. Bread and butter you always have
with you. ard eggs as a general thing.
Nothing is nicer than egg sandwich
properly MADE, and 1t is appetizing and
sustaining. Cut your bread very thin, and
butter 1t evenly. Get your frying pan hot
and put in a small bit of butter Break in
one egg, and as 1t begins to cook slowly,
take a knife and fork and cut it across
from side to side half dozen times. rs
though cutting steak, but dc not turn it
up from the bottom. That cuts the yolk and
the white and they run together evenly. and
spread out. great many like to beat the
egg little, and pour 1t in the hot skillet,
but as one likes about that The egg should
be thin as wafer when DONE and should
ne salted and peppered before turning over
TO COOK on top side Trim and place be-
tween the slices of bread, and do each UP
IN separate piece of white tissue paper
to keep moist.
Try mending a small hole in your granite
or iron cooking utensils with wet paper.
II should be pressed and pounded into the
hoie and left to dry thoroughly and burn
or the back Of the stove. Holes in big iron
pots can be mended in the same manner
and put on the stove and used just the
same as ever, and in time you will not be
able to find the mended place.
How this world does need sensible moth
ers for babies! Suppose, when YOU go TO
bed at night, mother somebody comes end
tuckS your clothes about your feet till YOU
can't bulge them, and makes the draw
string OF your night dress fairly cut into
your neck! Now how comfortably do YOU
the baby down, 1t is quite essential that its
clothes should be smoothly drawn from
under its little body; but don't tuck its toes
in till the legs are bowed in pinniny the
blanket. You would Shrek in Just two
minutes over the treatment that you give
your baby. When you take off it's clothes
at night you see how il loves 20 stretch It's
legs, and how 1t twists and turns in de-
hight at getting out of its criminally heavy
clothes. That ought to show you what the
child needs-simply more room. When it
wakens from it's sleep with a fretful cry,
Just turn 1t over on its other side, loosen up
the clothes about it, and it will go Off for
another nap 1t tires you to death to sleep
all night on one side and a baby can't
stand it any better than grown folks can.
Oil cloth Is ruined when 1t is washed with
soap. Have a tub of warm water ard
large clean flannel cloth. Go over the floor
carefully with that first, then rinse the
flannel cloth, and dip it in SKINNED milk
and wipe the oicloth all over again In
this way you can keep your olcloth fresh
much longer.
So many people find that nuts are inju-
rious to them, and yet they like TO eat
them. digestion or Indigestion. Pick the
kernels out of the shells, and put on Il dish,
over which sprinkle fine table salt. 1t is
said that this will correct any tendency to
Indigestion after eating them
This is the recipe that Mrs w. E. Mason
wife of the popular senator from Illinois
uses in making omeiet: Four eggs, whites
and yolks beaten separately: four table
spoonfuls of milk, scant teaspoonful of
salt; beat yolks and whites lightly together
with u silver fork. Have the frying pan
very hot. and put in it one teaspoon heap
ing full of butter. Pour the omelet in gen
tly, and shake over the hottest part of The
stove for five minutes, without stirring.
Then set in the oven for moment to set it
on top, after which fold and turn out in
hot dish.
The girl who wears d thick veil all the
time under the impression that she is pre-
serving her complexion is making a grave
mistake. The dust and dirt settles on her
face under the veil, and she lets it remain
there, often till morning. By that time it
has filled the pores of the skin, and soon
she has annoying black heads. Let the SUI
get at you face. 1t is better than a bath
for tough, yellow, leathery skin, and If
you would use soft linen towel to rub Oft
the perspiraton half a dozen times day
ana give your lace good massage in that
manner ii would help also.
A lady who knows says that better than
al the yeast powders in the world is this
Jne. which any woman can make herself
One-half pound of tartaric acid, one-nalf
pound best baking soda, one quart of -four
Sift thoroughly at least dozen times
through a fine sieve. 1t is stronger than
ordinary baking powder, and you will have
10 test it to know just how much to use at
time
broom may be toughened for much
longer wear by dipping it in boiling suds
once week oftener.
Once week at least you should look
after the kitchen s;rk and purify 1t. Plug
up the drain and let the sink run full of
hot water. Have it boiling hot. Then stir
into 1t a quarter OF the contents of a box
of concentrated lye. Punch out the plug
ging, and let the hot stuff pour down the
drain Ii will carry off all the grease and
other filth, il it is good and hot. To finish
the business, run ii full of water again
and dissolve a lot of copperas, then let ii
down the sink drain. After that you can
feel pretty sure that no poisonous gases
will come up to hurt your family if your
plumbing is all right.
If the children are "dauncy'' and do not
eat as children shocld. get some sassafras
bark and make them a strong tea Fix it
up with cream and lots of sugar. and they
Will like it, and ii will clear up their blood
1t is an excellent thing for everybody to
drink in the spring.