Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-24
HELPS FOR HoUsEKEEpERs.
a Budget Of Domestic Suggestions
Which May Be of Service
IN the Beginner

Young rabbits can be readily told
because they skin easily, and their
jaws crack quite freely under pres
sure betwixt finger and thumb.
If the point or end of the breast
bone next the vent of any fowl, game
bird, ETC., bends easily to pressure,
you can safely say the bird is young.
If the bird be broken or doctored,
then nip the flesh across butt of
wings or neck, between finger and
thumb, when the fingers will sink
into the flesh of the bird if it is
young.
a delicious salad may be made of
the turkey meat. Cut the meat into
dice and mix it with an equal guam
tity of celery. Season with salt, pap
rika, onion juice and capers, and
serve on lettuce leaves with mayon-
naise dressing, to which some
whipped cream has been added Both
white and dark meat may be used,
and if the supply is small, very ten
der veal will not detract from the
flavor, says the Boston Budget.
To make an oyster rarebit put in
saucepan one-half pound of full cream
American cheese, cut into small
pieces. Add to it from one-quarter to
one-ha1f cupful of oyster juice, with
the soft part of the oysters, and one
half tablespoonful of butter. Stir
until the mixture is creamy and pour
over hot toast.
For a peach and pear salad, fresh
ripe fruit should be used. Peel the
pears and cut them into slices. Pare
and quarter the peaches. Put them
in layers into glass dish, with sweet
ened whipped cream between each.
Cheese sticks to serve with salad
or with a meat jelly may be made
quickly from bread. Trim off the
crust and cut into finger length pieces
an inch and a half thick. Toast over
the fire and sprinkle with Parmesan
cheese.
There is no domestic remedy that
so promptly cuts short congestion of
the lungs, sore throat or rheumatism
as will hot water when applied
promptly and thoroughly.
Real comfort for room wear is to
be found in the soft fur slippers, wool
lined. They can't be called really
beautiful, except for the beauty of
y =
own. They are to be found in all
kinds of the shorter mapped furs,
sealsl1in, otter and in the tiger skin
the slippers are more shapely. There
is nothing like the fur slippers for
warmth.
The ivory handles of your knives
and piano keys will preserve their
creamy tone if wiped off twice week
with cloth dampened with alcohol.
In spite of all the remedies offered
for driving away ants from the house,
the only sure way seems to be to
catch and kill them. Set in the clos
cts plates coated thick with soft
lard, with little sticks leaning against
them for the ants to climb. When
filed drop into a pan of boiling wa
ter, and then set the plate as before.
Soft leather gloves may be washed
in the following manner: Make.
strong suds of any good white soap,
and to two quarts of suds add one
teaspoonful of borax dissolved in half
pint of hot water. When the mix
ture is cold, put the gloves on the
hands and wash as if washing the
hands. Rinse, draw them off and
hang to dry, but not in the sun.
Work gently, as the wet leather
stretches When nearly dry pull into
shape.
If, when you wash your bric-a-brac,
you will use camePs hair brush for
the interstices, and warm water and
CASTLE soap, they will emerge from
their bath as fresh as new.
Let nothing about your house get
slipshod. Things kept in perfect or
der not only look better but last long
er than things half cared for. She
is no true housekeeper who keeps the
front of the house in order and al
lows the kitchen and offices to be
"slicked."