The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-14
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
A Few Items which Msy Contain In
formation of Value
to Her.


bottiefed baby, unless the greatest care
is exercised in the cleansing of his bot
ties. Even the most carefully prepared
food may be poisoned if carelessness
is permitted in the washing of baby's
utensils. Very few people know how
to wash bottle clean. Don't call
bottle clean unless it shines like new
glass. 1t cannot be made clean enough
for baby's use with hot water or soap,
and especially if one of the ''wapsy"
things usually sold for bottle brush
is used. The bottle brush must have
good bristles and a strong handle.
After all the milk has been rinsed off
from the bottle that can be with cold
water, then put in some powdered
borax, and with the strong brush it
can be made to shine. Now place the
bottle in cold water to completely cover
it, and let the water heat slowly and
boil for 20 minutes. Then let it cool
enough SO that you can comfortably
handle it. The days supply of food
being ready, it can be put immediate
ly into the bottles and tightly corked
with absorbent cotton. About ten min
utes before baby's meal time place the
bottle in pitcher of warm water.
When warm enough remove the alb
sorbent cotton, put on the nipple, and
it is ready for baby.
In making chocolate at the table, it
will simplify matters to have the milk
,ai nd ba tor le IN, Il
before sitting down. Then the evolu-
ton of the beverage can be carried
on while the meal progresses. Put into
the outlet pan two squares of unsweet-
ened chocolate cut or broken into small
pieces, two tablespoonful of sugar, one
level saltspoon of salt and two table
spoonfuls hot water or milk: cook until
smooth and shiny, remembering that
long cooking before adding the milk
will make the chocolate less greasy
and less liable TO settle in the cups.
Then add gradually one full quart or
112 scant quarts of warmed milk. When
smooth, whip lightly with a lover egg
beaten and favor with cinnamon or
a half teaspoonful of vanilla. If you
use whipped cream put the cream in
the bottom of the cup and pour the
chocolate over. Some use a chocolate
muddler, instead of the egg-beater,
thinking the orange wood of which the
muddler is made, imparts pleasant
flavor.
a most practical suggestion for the
nursery appears in recent English
magazine. a friend of mine, says
the writer, has a card three feet long
by two wide, which is hung over the
nursery mantlepiece. At the top of
the card are the names and addresses
of the three nearest doctors. Then
follows list of accidents most COM
mon with children and the remedies to
beapplied- bites, broken limbs, bruises,
sprains, burns, commissions, Group. cuts,
falls, nosebleed, poisons, scalds. stings.
substances in the eye, ears, nose, swat
lowing coins, buttons. etc. Accompany
ing the card which is headed: "Wha;
to do and how to do it, is small box,
which stands, locked, upon the lnantel
shelf, the key being hung on mai.
within reach of the nurse, but out Of
the reach of the children. This box
contains the remedies required, court
plaster, absorbent cotton, lint, etc. With
this bureau of information and phaT-
maceutical out fit there is no excuse for
nurse or mother to wait Idly By until
the doctor comes.
Cauliflower au gratin is dish that
finds universal acceptance. TO pre-
pare it first boil the caulifiower, then
break into small tlowerlets. Butter a
pudding dish al d lay them in alternate
layers with white sauce and grated
cheese. Cover the top with buttered
crumbs and bake until the sauce bub-
bles through.
Before going away in the summer
grease all iron kettles, frying pans and
the like that they may not rust dur
ing your absence.
Save all soft bits of paper for polish
ing lamp chimneys or for wiping grease
from kettles and frying pans before
putting into the dish water.
Camphor gum laid in the drawers
when silver is packed away prevents
Washington Star.