Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-20
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
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1t is said that piece of old rubber
hose is the best thing to beat rugs
So says an old weaver.
To have 4 custard pie Of 4 nice even
brown when baked, sprinkle little
sugar over the top just before putting
it in the oven.
The gliding on furnished picture
frames may be restored by gently
washing it with warm water in which
an onion has been boiled.
Dissolve tablespoonful OF turpen-
tine in two quarts of hot water and
use for washing glass dishes and globes.
1t gives them a beautiful lustre.
Ii a strip of webbing two inches
wide is sewed tightly on the under
side of a rug close to the edge it will
prevent the edges from curling.
The tops of celery dried and rubbed
to powder are excellent for tiavoring
soups and gravies. The celery should
be dried in the sun or in very slow
oven.
If the ivory keys of your piano need
cleaning try preparation OF two
thirds alcohol to one-third of sweet
oil. 1t is also good to remove ink
stains from wood.
When a pudding is boiled in mold
take it from the water and plunge it
Immediately into cold water, then
turn it out Immediately. This method
will prevent it from sticking.
Cayenne pepper sprinkled in cup
boards and storerooms will drive away
ants and cockroaches. If a cloth is
wetted and sprinkled with this and
stuffed into mouseholes it will rid the
place of mice.
A very good way to stone raisins is
to have a glass of cold water beside
one. Dip the fingers into it, and the
seed will easily drop off from them,
and it will not be such a difficult task
as most people think it to be.
A roll of old muslin and soft linen
is one of the important items that are
likely to be forgotten in the confusion
of summer trunk packing. Lay roll
in the tray of your trunk, SO it can be
reached quickly in case of emergency.
An agreeable method OF changing
the atmosphere in an invalid's room
is to pour some eau de cologne into a
deep plate and with match set fire
to it. The cologne will make pretty
flame and impart delightfully."- re-
freshing odor to the air.
To cleanse your sink, dissolve a
pound of copperas in agallon ofboiling
water and use freely. The copperas
can be bought for a few cents, but ii
should be labelled "poison" and kept
out of the reach of children. 1t is a
great disinfectant and purifier.
One of the best disinfectants for the
sick room is basin of fresh water
Water is q great absorbant of noxious
gases. Water that has stood in a bed.
room is unfit to drink. A wide.
mouthed vessel of pure fresh water will
often do more to bring refreshing sleep
to a nervous patient than will an opiate
This is not theory, but experience.
Try it.
If tableclothes and napkins are
stained with peaches, berries, pears
coffee or tea, before being washed they
should be spread over a small tub
pouring boiling hot water through the
stains. Have plenty of it and do d
be discouraged if the stain does moi
start at once. Try, try again. Then
wash as usual. Of course, the freshel
the stain the easier it will come out.
Crab apples make beautiful pre-
serve. Make them as you do peaches
Clean the blossom end of the apple by
rubbing them and drop them into
water, wipe them clean, drop them q
few at time into the hot syrup and
cook them until they can be pierced
with fork. Fill the jars with
fruit, and after filling up with hot
syrup seal the jars. The stones are
left in crabapples.
Where piece of furniture is very
much soiled, wash IL thoroughly in
warm, soapy water, dry quickly with
soft Canton flannel. Mix together
one pint of linseed oil and half pint
of kerosene, wet flannel with the oil
mixture and rub the cleaned furniture.
Rest half an hour; then take a clean
piece of flannel and then, by vigorously
rubbing, polish the wood until it
shines like glass. This is an easy
method of cleaning furniture, and the
odor soon disappears if windows are
left open.
Flannel that has become yellow
from being badly washed can be whit
sned by soaking it for two or three
hours in lather made OF one quarter
pound of crude soap, two tablespoon
fuls of powdered borax and two table
spoonfuls Of carbonate of ammonia !;
dissolve in five or six gallons of water.
Cut the soap in small shavings in the
water till dissolved, then add to it the
other ingredients. Let the flannel lie
in the water until it looks white, then
squeeze and press it and rinse in blue
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