Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
HOUSE LDHIN rs

TO the city housewife, forced to pay from
twenty-seven to thirty cents per pound for
butter the announcement that peanut but
ter at fifteen cents a pound, undistinguish-
able from the product of the farm cow and
perfectly wholesome will soon be in the
market, is most welcome Nut butter has
for some time been III favor at santariums
and health resorts. but so far its use has
been entirely restricted to such institutions.
The process of manufacture is no secret.
The nuts, after the shells are removed,
are carefully looked over and all faulty
kernals rejected. They are then roasted
in a large revolving oven, after which they
are again examined for the removal of
scorched grains. The nuts are next put
through a mill and ground as fine as the
finest flour, the natural oil of the nut Civ
ing it the appearance and consistency of
putty as it leaves the mill, except that it
Is more of an orange color.
The addition of filtered water which re-
duces it to more Dliable state, completes
the butter-no other Ingredient not even
salt being required. 1t is claimed that 1t
Will never grow rancid and will keep in
any climate. 1t is put up in one. two, five,
ten, twenty-five and 1O0-pound tin cans
and scaled. 1t is to be used for all the pur-
poses ordinary butter is used, including
shortening and frying. Physicians and
healthful than COW butter and much less
expensive, while it is not open to the same
objections that has crowded butterine or
oleomargarine out of the general market.
With the present scientific knowledge of
the danger of tuberculosis infection from
the various cow products, it seems likely
that substitute against which no voice
of warning can be raised will find favor
with consumers.
Mothers of the small children possessed
to put everything in their mouths will
be glad to know that matches, at last, are
to be taken out of the category of things
poisonous. To effect death now, say the
match manufacturers, a person would have
to eat the ends of some 6,O00 matches.
This even an industrious child would hard
ly be apt to do. The substitution of a mix
ture of phosphorus sesqui suphide and
chloride of potash for the poisonous yell
low phosphorus, has been brought about
through the efforts of the French govern
ment who appointed a commission for the
purpose of finding something that would
ignite readily but be less dangerous to
manufacture.
Tn preparing a goose for the oven a thor
ough bath in hot soapsuds is not only ex-
pedient but necessary. The skin of the
goose is so exceedingly oily that heroic
measures are necessary to obtain good re-
suits. Indeed, many good houSekeepers
take soap suds and a small scrubbing
brush kept for that purpose to all fowls,
whose skin, they claim is necessarily more
or less exposed to all sorts of dust pene
trating through the features. Certain it is
that there is a marked difference in the
complexion of any fowl before and after the
scrubbing. OF course a good rinsing must
follow the soaping process.
Collecting Indian baskets is a fad with
a great many people. especially with the
army officers wives who have spent some
time the plains. One of the most eff
fective mantels in New York is decorated
with the little baskets of varying shapes
and weayes, the work of different tribes.
With Christmas present of one of the
Hoopa baskets, intended primarily as a hat
for a young Indian boy, came the warning,
Put it out of doors in the bright sunshine
an anti-bacilus treatment. This is al
ways wise precautionary method, as no
one knows the conditions in which these
things are made and many of them have
seen years of use in Indian wigwams."
In fumigating a room with sulphur the
proper way is to elevate the dish in which
the sulphur is to be burned, having 1t as
near the top Of the room as possible. The
fumes Of sulphur. are so heavy that when
the dish is set on the floor as is usually
done, they cannot reach the upper strata
of air.
Edam cheese shells are now being used
in a. novel way as fancy receptacles for
the service of cookedlrnacaroni