Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-22
HOUSE
TOLD
HINTS

VI IL DSeISlSdh VI IOdSt, taxing great
pains that no fragment of bone or gristle
is left to mar the whole. Put layer of
mashed potato in the bottom of a buttered
pudding dish, then a slight layer of fine
dry bread crumbs. Sprinkle with salt
and pepper, dot with bits of butter, mois-
ten with half cupful of gravy or beef
stock and cover with another layer of po-
tato. Smooth the top with knife blade
dipped in milk and bake in moderate
oven until we'll Drowned. Serve with poach-
ed eggs or omelette
Now that hot weather is at hand. salads
should play an important part in each
days bill of fare. Fruit salads are not
nearly so well known they should be.
The dressing of a fruit salad for the gour-
met is usually of sweet wine, with just
suspicion of fine lqueurs, but for ordi-
nary use other combinations are preferable.
Sweetened whipped cream. lemon juice.
fruit juices French dressing and mayon-
naise are all used with fruit
A fruit salad dressing that is especially
good for any combinations of fruits that
are not too tart is made by beating to-
sether the yolks of four eggs until lemon
colored or creamy. Beat in, little by little,
a half teaspoonful of salt and a cupful of
powdered sugar. Have ready the strained
juice of two lemons, stir in at the last and
serve at once. This goes particularly well
with bananas and oranges. Another good
dressing for bananas is made of a gill of
Well-sweetened sherry, mixed with tea
spoonful of lemon juice. When ready to
serve, add a little whipped cream.
A delicious French salad is made of wild
Strawberries dressed with claret. Another
Persian dainty consists of a mixture of
ripe currants and red raspberries with
claret.
The almost universal custom of sealing
an envelope by moistening the flap with
the tongue is now decred by physicians,
who report many cases of blood poisoning
as the result of cutting the tongue with
the sharp edge of the envelope. Danger is
also said to Turk in the seemingly innocu-
Gus postage stamp, and people are warned
against moistening with the lips.
An old New York housekeeper, whose
table cutlery is always bright and shining
and who emphatically believes in the sim
plitication of labor, gives this advice to
young housekeepers. Save the water in
which your potatoes have been boiled, and
you clear The table lay the silver
knixes, forks and spoons in the kettle of
potato water until ready to wash them.
Wash in hot soap suds and rub thorough
ly on dry, soft towel. If this custom is
followed the weekly silver cleaning may
be extended to month. the silver mean
while remaining in good condition
The same good housekeeper prides her
self on the crystal cleanneSS of her glass.
This she always washes herself in clear,
scalding hot water. Slip the glasses in
Sideways she says, so that the water
touches the outside and inside of the glass
at the same time ard there will be
danger of cracking from unequal eXpan-
SION. Wash one at L time, rolling it around
in the pan with the ends of the fingers, or
use a dishmop kept especially for the glass
and silver Wipe at once without rinsins
draining Before washing a glass that
has held milk or a glass milk bottle, rinse
first in cold water. A generous-siZed piece
of old cotton CLOTH neatly hemmed to avoid
raVpliDg and lint iS the best polishing
towel for glass.
= With the camping outfit under considera-
ton, the Arizona eXpedient for camp
stove bears passing on. This is simply an
empty tive-gallon oil can. Cut one end off
for the stove door, put a circular hole on
one side, large enough for the frying pan or
kettle to be set in, and make a slit on an
other side for a draught. For the family
that dotes on taking to woods occasion
ally, without the formality of train of ac-
companying baggage, the Arizona camp
stove will prove a bonanza. The necessary
cooking utensils may be loaded into it, and
the whole tucked compactly under the wag-
on seat or in gunny -sack, to hang under
the wagon.
In connection with camping, the advice
of a woman who has a large house and
large family on her hands but nevertheless
succeeds in keeping young and always
charming, will be found sound and sensible.
when you get ready to take a little camp
ing trip" she says close your house and
make 1t your business to forget all about 1t.
Don't think single think Just enjoy
yourself, as though you hadn't a care in
the world. Worrying and wondering wheth-
er you remembered to wind the clock and
closed the spare room windows, watered the
rubber plant or darkened the living room
won't help matters at all, and will prevent
your getting the rest and change you need.
DO the best you can to leave everything in
good shape then put 1t out of your mind,
and you will come back rested and equal to
any emergency
For the suppression of the spasmodic
cough that often seizes one at the most in
opportune time, refusing to yield to cough
drops or will power, try this new remedy:
Pour few drops of oil of peppermint on a
bit of cotton and put in a small earthen jar
or glass bottle, covering tightly. Garry in
your pocket, When you feel the coughing
mt coming on 1nhale the peppermint, hold
ing close to the nostrils. Cover closely
again, that 1t may not evapOrate. This has
the same effect as the Chinese camphor of
peppermint or menthol.
In hot weather many children become
subject to violent attacks of nosebleed, due
to disordered conditions of the blood. The
most direct and useful way to stop the flow
Is In the application of cold congresses.
Take three towels and ice water in basin.
Have the patient sit as upright possible,
loosening the clothing freely about the
neck Tuck dry towel about the clothing
10 prevent the cOld water trlckl1ng down.
Dip one towel in cold water and bind over
forehead and nose, pressing firmly about
the nose. Dip the other towel in cold water
and wind around the neck. Renew these
frequently, until the skin is thoroughly cool.
A little vinegar added to the water adds to
its value as a styptic.
Where nosebleed is unusually obstinate,
refusing to yield to the ordinary remedies,
dernier resort is to plug the nose with
plug of cotton about the size of the first
joint of the thumb, around which a bit of
thread is tied. Oil the plug, roll to a point
on one end and introduce in nose with a
twisting motion until 1t reaches the point
where the bleeding comes from.
a word Of caution to the woman who Is
getting her art needlework in readiness for
the summer rest days is not to bite off the
ends of silks or colered threads nor mois-
ten them with her lips in order to pass them
readily through the eye of the needle.
Many cases of arsenical poison have been
traced directly to this feminine habit. The
use of poisonous dyes Is alarmingly preva-
lent, chrome yellows containing lead,
greens containing arsenic and blues con-
tanning muriate of soda proving distinctly
deeterious.