The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-26
Household Hints.

Felt plate buffers used to protect deli
cate china plates and saucers when piled
in the closet, may be used under doiles
to save the bare polished surface of a
handsome table.
To give delightful fragrance to hand
kerchiefs and linen throw gool-sizcd
piece Of OrriS root into the water whern-
in they are scalded. When ironed Slip
sachet of violet powder into the drawer
along with them, and they gain Il lasting
perfume.
This ''llalf and half weather sets
corns to singing. A simple remedy is
made of stale bread softened with good
strong vinegar. Bind Oh the corn over
night. After two or three applications
the cOrnS can easily be picked out. 1t
takes ont the soreness. too.
The country housekeepers should k.i"w
that bayberries sewed up i'll a cotton
bag furnish the most effective :nrans
possible for cleaning hatirons. There
seems to be Il peculiar property in the
greasy eXcretions of the fruit that
cleanses the irons as nothing else VIII.
To distinguish your silver, china and
glass towels work on the first. two
crossed spoons. OH the, second the out
lines of cup and on the glass towels Il
wine glass or Il tumbler. Work them
with crewel. in stem stitch. and even the
most ignorant of maids cannot mistake
their use.
In arranging pictures it should he re-
membered that oils etchings and water
colors should not hang together, and that
the drawing room walls are not to be
packed with canvases if one is fortunate
enough to be able to buy them. Two or
three fine Oil paintings are about Ill any
room can stand, too many giving the ef
feet of Il picture gallery.
Mice will not infest pantries where
.>f IT,
and Croton bugs flee from shelves strewn
with the coarse salt used to free ice
cream. The camphor should be used on
ly at night, and all cans and boxes hold
ing catables should be carefully covered,
as otherwise its pungent penetrating smell
will affect cereals, crackers and other
foods.
The mustard mixed for ordinary use at
the table is too biting for cold meats in
sandwiches. Mrs. Lincoln'S formula fol
such is a tablespoonful of each of butter
and sugar worked to a cream: add to this
two tablespoonfuls of mustard mixed
with one tablespoonful of salt. Beat an
egg very light and whip into the creamcd
mixture. adding a half-cup Of vinegar
heated to the boiling. point. The vinegar
should thicken the mixture. and if it does
not, set the bowl over boiling water 4
few. minutes. stirring constantly until
thick.
open nreplaceS tnat never hOlu Il nre
are an abomination,' exclaims !; critic.
Gas fires in simulated logs are bad
enough, but they are better than the elab>
oratcly effective cavern in Il side wall,
topped by an expensive mantcl, trimmed
with tiles. set out with costly and gilt.
tering BRASS and then left from year to
year without the blaze for which it was
created. 1t is false idea of ornamental
tion." finishes the cayilcr and there will
he found those who will agree with him
Conversely, no form of decoration eNcels
that of the used fireplace. with it's honest
brick brio .b ehney hae kea by nn many fires
of glowing logs or ceals. Such give a
color and character to Il room that no
other mode of decoration can achieve.