Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-10-28
USEFUL HINTS

Needlework should be ironed on the
wrong side on a piece OF flannel, and ii
should be kept long enough under the
iron to thoroughly dry it.
A frying pan should never be scraped.
Instead, fiji it with cold water, to which
little sol has been added, and let il
stand for tral hours
When the burners Of lamps become
clogged with char put them in strong
soapsu1s, and boil awhile to clean them.
Lemon juice mixed very thick with
sugar will relieve that tickling cough that
is 50 annoying.
Scraps of old, worn chamois skin
strung on twine, bead fashion and then
tied into a "chamois ball." will last for
years and polish glass as nothing else will
do.
A long handled, weighted brush brings
out a fine polish on waxed floor.
kerpsene will clean a white enameled
sink.
Every pan of dish water contains grease,
which coagulates on the cold pipes. Re
suit, evil deposits on those pipes; event
uaIly the plumber. A pint of boiling hot
solution of washing soda poured down the
sink every day dissolves and carries away
the grease.
Ordinary popcorn, ground fine in a
meat grinder or coffee grinder, and then
served with rich cream, is said to be a
popular breakfast food in Iowa. 1t can
be ground the night before in order to
save time the next morning. The ground
popcorn can also be browned little over
the fire for change before serving.
When mixing -four for thickening add a
pinch OF salt to the flour before mixing
with water, and it mixes much more
smoothly without Jumps.
1t is not generally known that eggs COW
cred with boiling water and allowed to
stand for five minutes are more nourish-
ing and more easily digested than eggs
placed in boiling water and allowed to
boil furiously for three and half min
utes.
In testing a piece OF cloth to see if it is
a cotton mixture, ii you cut a small piece
off and put match to it, if it is all wool
it will only singe, but if cotton is there it
will flare up.
There is no nicer spring breakfast than
a sliced green pepper cut very small and
cooked for ten minutes with two peeled
and diced tomatoes in little butter; add
four eggs lightly beaten and stir as for a
scramble.
Make delicious violet perfume by put
ting half all ounce OF small pieces OF orris
root into two ounces of alcohol. Add to
this bunch of newly picked violets, cork
and bottle tightly and shake well. After
it has been standing four or five days a
few drops on the handkerchief will leave
the scent OF fresh yiolets.
Gerariums dug up carefully before
frost comes and hung up in dry cellar
by rag about the roots will grow better
when set out in the spring than those
left in the ground.
A brilliant polish may be given to
brass door fixtures, ornaments, etc, by
washing them in alum and lye. Make a
solution by boiling an ounce of alum in a
pint of lye, and wash the articles in it.
A writer i'll a current magazine gives
some useful suggestions for porch furni-
ture. Among other things, she recon-
monds that cushions be covered on one
side with oilcoth. At night the oilcloth
side should be turned uppermost, so if it
should rain they will suffer no harm.
Moss is used for stuffing the pillows, since
danpness is fatal to feathers or down.
Silver, if left lying near guttapercha,
gets tarnished very quickly. Ii put in
pantry where gas is used it should always
be kept well wrapped up in chamois
leather.