The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-01
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR THE
HOUSEKEEPER.

HOU 6EkEEEEh.
1T saw in the paper lately a question
about putting up beets in
glass jars can all my
beets in the fall. and they are
lust like new beets for a year. I
wash and cut top and roots off, then
boil till tender and throw them into
cold water. The skin comes off then
very easily. put into jars, cut into
pieces, and neat my vinegar, generally
boiling it, I always keep a few small
red beets out that / never cook. cut
ting them into little pieces and putting
some in the bottom OF each Jar. put
in my cooked beets. then the hot vine
gar. pepper and salt, the vinegar to suit
taste: seal the jar up tightly and set
away. I have beets the year around
and leave none i'm the cellar TO make
dirt.
II think N NJ. b. in the paper of
The 18th of April is like me; the ants
are 50 fine many people eat them and
don't see them. So of course they are
not bothered by ants. 1 surely feel
sorry for her. as I had the same trOu-
bles yet I am pretty fair hOusekeeper.
II put paris green from the door of
my sitting room to the cupboard, and
I'M the cupboard along the edge of the
shelves. and 1 never saw an ant after
day or two. shall be ready for them
this summer If they make their appear
ance. +. b. NJ"
"P. S.-Mari0n Harland, + wish I
could give you nice bowl of trailing
arbutus. as ! can get so much here, and
e. b. NJ"
I echo the wish with all my heart.
Yet the friendly thought is not a bad
substitute for the dainty darlings, so
fragile to sight, in reality SO brave and
hardy. Like Dick Swiveler's MarchiOn-
ess. I shall make believe very hard"
all the day that I have them.
u 7 am refurnishing my two second
story bedrooms and would like to know
what would be nice for the bureau, as
mine never looks nice.
So Where could I get new slides for
my ice chest? / would like something
clean-lOOkng; mine are always spotted
and they must be scrubbed with sand
soap. I should like something that the
maid could wash. something white or
glass
80 How can one wash clothes to
keep them white and what kind Of
soap should one use2 MRS. T.
I. Have a white linen cover to fit
the top of the bureau. embroidered in
wash silks. or with white working cot
ton. or with a drawn work border and
plain center. Arrange on this a pin
cushion. toilet articles, such as comb,
brush, button hook, etc Comb and
brush should be in a china tray, and
bairDins in an ornamental holder of
some kind. Avoid the cluttered look
bureau tops usually have. Leave room
for the person who is dressing TO lay
down collars and other small objects.
A pretty pin cushion now in vogue is
a roll about eight inches long and less
than four inches in diameter. covered,
first. with col0red silk to match the
furnishings of the room, then with
muslin. dotted or plain. with a wide
rufle of same an around the cushion.
head rest similar i'm shape, material
and make. but somewhat larger, is fas-
tened to the back of the easiest chair
I'm the room.
III YOU have essence bottles on your
bureau. see that they are not empty.
They mean less than nothing when
kept for show.
You can get glass slides from any
house furnishing establishment The
next best thing is TO have your wooden
slides covered on both sides with zinc
TT is less expensive than glass, and the
slides viii be more cumbrous. But they
are clean and durable.
g. I repeat directions given several
weeks ago by a member Of the Elk
change:
II have whitened clothes BY putting
a small quantity of chloride of lime in
"a tub of cold water. Let the clothes
remain in it for several hours aftel
they have been washed and rinsed
After standing in the chloride of lime
rinse thoroughly again. L have useC
thN without any injury to the clothes
and fl viii whitsn them. The quantity
Of lime. before il is dissolved. should b.
one tablespoonful 90 a good-siZed tub
I also add bOrax. to soften the water.
You should have no trouble in keep
ing your clothes white i'm summer
you have a good bleaching ground.
1-Please tell me of something &
clean russell shoes without making
them very dark.
81 would ike to say that tn
cleaning process for mating spoken O
last week is equally good for a whit
straw hat t have tried il successfully
OF course. YOU must brush as muc
dusi as possible out before applyin
cornmeal. r. =. NJ"
lone girl cleans hers with naphtha
another recommends cutting a banan
i'm half and cleaning the shoes with tn
inside. polishing afterward with cham
ois skin. Neither process darkens tn
shoes very much-sO the girls say.
2-It viii be recollected that tn
ha y arrf 80
OF rather coarse cornmeal TO the mat
ting. The first layer should be slight
moistened. brushed in hard. then sweT
of before the second supply Of meS
fsry) goes on. A little salt added {
the dry cornmeal tends to keep tn
straw from following.