The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-08-13
FOR WOMAN'S EYE
FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

rye bread
Lemons, cut in half lengthwise and
the pulp replaced with candied vio-
let's, make pretty luncheon favors
When washing greasy dishes, if
little soda is placed in the water it
will assist materially in cleaning the
china ware.
Add a few drops of vinegar to the
water in which eggs are poached.
They will set more quickly and per-
fectly
An effective eradicator of mildew
and ink on white cloth is salts of
lemon, which may be bought at any
drug store Wet the spot, moisten the
salts and apply.
Gas range conveniences include a
coffee rooster, which is made up of a
round plate and a cylinder for the
coffee which can be turned as the
roasting goes on.
a nice way to prepare small fruits
is to ice them. Dip each piece into
the slightly beaten white of an egg,
and then in graduated sugar Dry
and place i'll the refrigerator.
Muskmelon that is too flavorless
to be served as fruit may be cut in
small pieces, covered with French
dressing and added toathe salad list.
To clean pewter make a strong
solution of soda and water. Add a
few drops of oil of tartar and thicken
with sand. With this scour the pew
ter thoroughly and then, after wiping
dry, finish by polishing it with a
chamois leather dipped i'll whiting.
To garnish salad of apples and
celery, arrange unpeeled thin, wedge
shaped sections of the apple with the
skin uppermost, around the inside of
the dish, and decorate the middle
with candied cherries and celery tops.
A toaster for the gas stove is made
like any other toaster, as far as the
upper part is concerned, with wires
and a long handle, but below it, and
with supports which hold the toaster
away from the fire from one-half to
two inches, is a piece of wire gauZe
through which the gas flames cannot
pass
A few pieces of charcoal laid in the
refrigerator absorb impurities in the
air. A bag of powdered charcoal
tied around the mouth of the faucet
removes impurities in the water as it
passes through it. Charcoal used in
this way soon becomes foul, and
should be frequently replaced by a
fresh supply.
Those to whom the flavor Of mint is
| agreeable will enjoy mint phosphate
made in this fashion: Crush sprigs
of fresh peppermint, cover them with
powdered sugar, add lemon juice, a
little phosphate, slices of orange and
pineapple, and some candied cher
ries, and dilute with crushed ice and
water.
Orgeat is prepared as follows
Blanch and peel half pound of Jor-
dan almonds and pound them to a
paste in a mortar Add three pints
of water and press through a linen
| cloth. Melt pound and half of
sugar over the stove with pint of
water. When it is clear syrup add to
it the almond milk with a teaspoon
full of orange flower water. Serve
cold.
A simple and generally successful way
for removing glass stopper that has
| become fastened in bottle is to wet
cloth in hot water and wrap ii
around the bottle. If this method
fails, take piece of Irvine and,
tying it once around the neck of the
bottle, begin to draw backward and
forward; in few minutes the por-
tion of the bottle where the string
has been placed will begin to get hot
and the stopper may then be removed
with ease.
The following polish improves
leather chairs wonderfully; Boil
half pint of linseed oil. Let stand
or1xy oAII Iol
pint of vinegar. Stir till thorough
needed, shake the bottle we'll, pour a
very little on soft flannel, rub thor
oughly into the leather, turning the
flannel as it gets dirty, and rub with
soft busters till the polish of the
| leather is restored
An odor which is at once refresh
ing to man and disagreeable to the
obnoxious fly is something OF boon
i'll the hot season. 1t is claimed that
lavender and alcohol, mixed to a
proportion of ten cents worth of oil
of lavender to fifteen cents worth
of alcohol, will drive away flies One
or more sponges should be wet with
and refreshing odor will remain
NN'b "AoSA ''AS AA4uAA iioS ONoPOiotCu.
The average American housewife
wears out her rugs by continual
sweeping and beating The plan of
putting them upon a line every two
weeks, or even once a month, and
there having them whipped, is not to
be commended if the rugs are of any
value. They should be cleaned with
a carpet sweeper, occasionally put up
on line and brushed and once a year
sent away to be cleaned in proper
,, manner, or else washed at home,
For the afternoon tea a delicious
, sandwich may be made with pumper-
nickel (the brown rye bread procur-
able at most German delicatessen
shops). Gut some thin slices of the
pumpernickel and half the number of
slices from white loaf and trim
! both into fingers or rounds of the
same size. Now spread the pumper-
nickel with thin slice of white
bread on this, then another slice of
the cheese, and lastly, a second slice
of the black bread, and press the
three well together Htit