The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-30
Household Hints,

| huU Jue nHnub on SUCK OF celery
after peeling onions.
Many physicians regard coffee with
out milk as beneficial drink.
Lamps shold be taken apart every
day and the reservoirs always kept
filed.
A spoonful of vinegar added to the
water in which meat and poultry are
boiled makes them more tender.
To have a custard pie of an even,
nice bake, sprinkle little sugar over
the top just before putting it into the
oven.
The gliding on furnished picture
frames may be restored by gently
washing with warm water in which
an onion has been boiled.
The addition of little powdered
borax to cold starch tends to give the
linen extra stiffness, and a little tur-
pentine put into the boiled starch adds
luster.
For cleaning ivory piano KEYS or
knife handles, use preparation of two
thirds alcohol to one.third sweet oil. II
Is good to remove ink stains from
wood.
A roll of old muslin and soft linen is
one of the important articles that are
most likely to be forgotten in the con-
fusion of the summer packing. Lay
the roll in the tray of trunk now, and
if it is needed for an emergency it may
be quickly reached.
Important papers, maps, charts and
onnH wi ,o H. ELL
preserved by brushing very thin
coating of India rubber solution over
their surface. This is perfectly trans
parent, and if an important document
is vanished with it on both sides it
will be protected for an indefinite pc.
riod against the effects of damp, while
the writing will remain clear and un-
faded.
Crickets may be very charming and
poetical little insects when mentioned
in story or verse, says an exchange, but
they are also most destructive, as they
will nibhle woolens or other fabrics
quite as damagingly as mice, and when
one is nervous their creaking voices are
often the very reverse from soothing.
To secure freedom from them, put
Scotch snuff down their holes and into
the corners frequented by them.
A simple liquid preparation for the
purpose of preserving furs from the
depredations of moths can be made as
follows: Into one pint of water drop
twelve grains of corrosive sublimate:
wash the fur in this liquid, and when
quite dry the fur should be safe from
the moth. Other preventives against
moth in furs will be found in camphor,
pepper. salt, cloves, cedar-wood shay
ings and borax powder. All furs and
heavy wooden garments should be put
away in drawers or boxes we'll sprinkled
with any of these condiments.
The trained-nurse method of bed
making is one which might well be
studied carefully by all bedmakers.
There is no real reason, says an ex-
change, why only invalids should be
comfortable. The under sheet is tuck
ed in carefully and tightly at both ends.
On the sides, at each corner, it is fold
ed back carefully in the same way that
paper wrappings are folded at the cor
ners of package. Then the sides are
tucked in. The other sheet, the blank
ct and the spread are tucked in at the
foot in the same way, and drawn very
tightly under the sides.
One may learn something even from
the despised tramp, says the New York
Post. A menu r of the fraternity of
wanderers can to an area door the
other morning with request for food,
which he delivered to maid on her
way to the back yard with an armful of
mats. He asked if he might do this
work in payment for breakfast, and
when he had thus, by an offer of such
recompense as he could give, estab-
lished claim to decent treatment, he
went on with bit of advice: "I'm
carpet weaver by trade" he said, "and
l know how rugs should be taken care
Of. Did you ever hear that an old
piece of rubber hose, such as you use
to water the garden, is the best thing
to beat them with?" The maid had
never heard of this, but experiment
proved that the weaver-tramp was
right.
A.