The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-03-28
Suggestions

Do not use soap in washing bamboo
furniture Instead, clean with cold
salted water, rinse with cold water
and dry as quickly as possible in the
open air.
An application of ashes and salt,
mixed to stiff paste, is recommended
for the stoppage of cracks in stove
CRATES. If put on at night it Will De
firm in the morning.
It is poor economy to use red ash or
soft coal for cooking stoves or FUR
naees as they burn out rapidly and
c1ink easily. Coke makes a cheap and
hot fire. The objection is that it is
too hot and will burn out a furnace in
a season or two
A new method of treating the scalp
for falling hair, consists of a pad of
absorbent material gummed into the
crown of an unperforated hat and
medicated with some volatile liquid
that will be vaporized by the warmth
OF the head.
a simple way to color cake icing
or candy, green is to use the white
OF an egg in which one or two green
coffee beans have been standing for
several hours or over night After re-
moving the beans the egg is beaten
and used for icing.
A very pleasant drink, which has the
effect of a cordial, is secured by fla
voring a cup OF tea with a small guam
preserved, and a slice of lemon.
These should be placed in the cup and
the hot tea poured over them.
One of the most difficult things to
determine is the purity of linen Adult
teration is so cleverly accomplished
now that expert is often deceived.
Pure linen. it should be remembered, is
hard and slippery, not soft The most
common test is to moisten the finger
and apply to the linen. If the mois-
ture at once comes through on the
other side, it is considered satisfactory
proof of the purity of the goods. In
mixed goods, capillary attraction acts
slower. Many rely on the fax odor
| which can never be wholly eliminated
| from the fabric
| The charge is often made with rea-
| son, that the majority of cooks ruin
| potatoes in the cooking, either through
| ignorance or carelessness. Irish house
| wives, whose chief diet is potatoes, and
| who may therefore be expected to
| make the best of them plunge their
1 new, sound potatoes into boiling sailed
| water, dropping them slowly, one at
/ time, in order not to check the boil
| ing Old or wi1ted potatoes are soaked
| in cold water for hour or more be-
fore they are cooked. As soon as
| boiled potatoes are done all water
| should be drained away and the kettle
| placed where there is sufficient heat
| to dry out all moisture. Some cooks
| throw in a scant handful of salt to alb
| sorb the moisture When baked pota-
| toes are done they should be prickeC
| with a fork to let the Imprisoned mois
ture escape, otherwise they are likely
to become SOggy-
| The splintering of hardwood floors
in kitchens is frequently complained
| of by housekeepers- The cause is at
| tributed to scrubbing with soft soar
and water or alkali- This treatmen
| will ruin a floor of that sort Instead
| it should be gone over with a hal
| brush and all spots wiped on with
| damp cloth and then rubbed dry One
| a week the floor should be rubbed will
1 cloth moistened in kerosene or crud
| petroleum, the latter is preferred Fo
greater ease and convenience tn
cloth may be wrapped about the stxl