The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-22

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The instructions given to the Red
Cross nurses by the surgeon -in-chlet
previous to their departure for Key
West are cutie worth the notice OF
stay-at- home women. A new argument
against tight-lacing was made in one
point which DR.. Lesser urged, that the
wearing of tight clothes irritated ana
roughened the skin, thereby adding a
little to the persons susceptibility 10
disease \ smooth. unbroken skin. ne
aVerred, was a great safeguard against
germs. Wooden underwear, too, was
denounced, as absorbing noXious SUP
stances too easily. PreventlVeS, 100,
IN the shape of medicine taken to ward
off disease. were not favored by the
doctor The best safeguards were reg
ular and light meals. plenty of baths,
and a proper amount of sleep. me
precaution of boiling the water was adj
vocated even for washing purposes, IL
swampy and specially infected districts.
If your mandolin has become soiled
and greasy through being touched by
moist fingers. take a mixture of one
teaspoon of vinegar in four teaspoons
of water and lightly wash the parts
affected Then rub dry. and continue
to rub with a dry clean cloth, which
must be entirely free from all rough
ness After this polish with some good
furniture polish.
Copper has been my best friend In
the kitchen" remarked a clever house
keeper the other day. 1T is not its
intrinsic virtue that l revere and love,
but its ability to get dingy quickly and
it's beauty when properly cleaned. L
hold that the one great principle of
cookery is cleanliness and therefore
insist upon everything used in the
kitchen being scrupulously clean. Like
most other housekeepers I make rules
for servants to break, and it is some
times u struggle to persuade Bridget
or Sarah that a utensil filled with water
and left with bit of soda in it, at one
side OF the stove to keep warm. can
be cleaned when the proper time
left all night, dry and sticky. But
copper utensils have done more good
than all the lectures / ever delivered to
my erring handmaidens. Copper is
little dearer than other materials, but
il lasts forever and is better than tin,
iron. enamel or earthenWare The great
arguments in its favor are firstly that
servants take a pride in keeping 1t
brilliantly clean and bright, and in the
second place, copper being slow con-
ductOr of heat. there is little or no fear
of anything cooked in a copper utensil
catching or burning. All copper YES
sells should be retinned at least once a
year, while to obviate any risk of cop
per poisoning, special care and atten-
tion must be paid to the keeping Of
them spotlessly clean: needless to say
no food especially none sustaining any
acid, should be left in a copper pan
overnight"
Before closing your houses for the
summer try this simple method of pre-
serving bright CRATES or fre-irons from
rust. Make a stronS paste from fresh
lime and water, and. with a brush
smear it as quickly as possible over all
the polished surface requiring preser-
walton BY this means all the CRATES
and tire-irons in an empty house may be
kept for months without further care
or attention.
"Eschew." says a man of taste, the
vim ordinaire of the cheap table d'hote
dinner. and take III its stead bottle
of ginger-ale. The dinners Obtainable
for 60 or - cents are not bad. but the
wine served is undrinkable."
To powder parsley, dip the bunch
quickly into boiling water to make it a
brilliant green, then put it into hot
oven for a few minutes to dry thor
oughly. Break into fine flakes.
The best way to clean painted waAls
IS to use a large soft sponge. Those
known as "coachmen'S Sponges" can
be had at a very low price. They should
be wrung out Of warm water in which
a little soda has been dissolved, and
the walls wiped downward going over
a small space at a time before it is
wiped dry again with clean house
cloths. Care should be taken to change
the water often, as wiping a wall with
dirty water leaves streaks.
"A way for housekeepers to help in
an effort to better domestic service,
even if they do not join the Household
Economic Association" says one OF
them, lis to demand trained service
If every mistress should say to every
applicant for a place in her employ
What training school are you from?
the institutions would become indispen-
sable in time 1 was reminded of this
by an experience, ten days ago, when
/ answered, in my dire need, an ad-
vertisement by a girl lately landed
found a dozen women in the room be-
fore me- l said to the woman who
opened the door, and who turned out tC
be a sister of the girl who had adver-
tised. that there was probably no rea-
son for my waiting, with so many in
advance. Well she said, she has
twenty-five addresses now, but she Is
going where she will get the smallest
family and the largest wages. She con
tributed the further information, too
that she did not know one word OF
the American language. Yet thai
wholly incompetent maid had pick OF
two dozen New York places. My first
impulse was to be very indignant; my
second to realize that it was simply
position in which we housekeepers hao
placed ourselves. If twenty-five of us
sue for the services of a green foreigner
what can be expected of the maids
A determined effort in many communl'
haf