Middletown transcript., 1906-06-30

dropping little refined borsx in til
water.
Touch warts with castor oil. Ths
sometimes removes them, and is harm
less remedy.
Chocolate and cocoa stains can be re
moved by washing the fabric with soal
in tepid water.
81 Toast is much improved if melted but
ter is poured over it, instead of spreading
it with cold butter.
Blankets aud flannel garments shoult
not be wrung out, but allowed to drip anc
that not in the sun.
If clothes are hung on the line neatly
and smoothly much labor will be saved
when tue time for ironing comes.
y The skin Of young fowls will heal easily
| IF the spurs of chickens are over aquartel
of an inch long it indicates old age.
1 Don't wear rustling clothes nor dark
ones. Wash suits are the best of all, keep.
| ing fresh one always ready to put on. 5
/ Have handy stone or steel for sharp
ening knives and keep the knives in good
condition. Good tools make rapid work.
| If eggs are to be boiled hard, have the
water boiiing when the eggs are put in it.
This will prevent the yolks turning dark.
Add pinch of salt to cream before
whipping it and whip it in pitcher, as
it-will whip more quickly than in bowl.
A tablespoonful of paraffin added to
each three gallons of water when boiling
white clothes, will help to remove the
stains.
An old lapboard slipped under pillows
and bolster will do much to help the first
sitting up to be- pleasure instead of
wearisome thing
When making gravy remove the pan
from the fire while the thickening is be-
ing stirred in, and when smooth return
to the fire to cook. This will prevent
Jumps forming.
Food of damp juicy nature should not
be allowed to remain in paper bags. The
bags are made of compound containing
chemicals and when damp are unfit to
tnnch at,u artioIa Of fortJ
Instead Of putting food into, the oven to
keep hot for late:comers, cover it closely
and place over pan of hot water. The
steam will keep the food hot at the same
time prevent it from drying.
Toast can be made over a gas stove
without scorching and blackening by put
ting thin piece of sheet iron or tin over
the burner. When it is hot hold the
bread over in bread toaster,
For tender, aching feet there is nothing
better than a strong solution of boric
acid. After bathing with this, dust the |
feet well with powdered talcum to which |
a little salicylic acid has been added.
When washing glassware do not put it |
into hot water bottom first, as it will be |
liable to crack from sudden expansion.
Even delicate glass can be washed in
very hot water if fslipped in edgewise.
Do not use heavy spreads, but substi-
tute pretty and dainty ones. Always put
a light shawl upon patient sitting up in
bed if used to lying down well covered.
Do this even though the room is warm.
Fish scales can easily be removed by |
pouring hot water on the fish slowly un-
til the scales curl, then scrape quickly.
Wash in several waters, having the last
cold and we'll salted SO no slime will be
left.
Two new uses for salt have been of
service to me: First, as toothwash it
having been useful for removing tartar
from child's teeth. Second, as cough
medicine, strong solution of salt often
stopping child S cough.
To test beef press it down with the
thumb. II it rises quickly the meat is
good. 1t should be fine grained, of
bright red color, with streaks of clean,
White.looking fat. The meat will be
tongh unless there is plenty OF fat on it.
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Everything should be kept fresh and
lainty. Remove all the furniture from
'he sick room that can be spared. Get
i'd of tray or dish as soon as the patient
nas finished with it. Appetites are un-
usually capricious during the best Of i'll
lesses.
as soon as a jelly tumbler or preserve
ar is empty, that has been sent you, put
he name of the girer on slip OF paper
inside. II, as in case of sickness, many
Iueh gifts are received, it will save. many
plumbers later on when these reeeptacles
ire returned.
1t is often necessary to prepare hasty
unch. Here is delicious way to pre-
pare cocoa without boiling: For each
:upful blend half teaspoonful of cocoa ,
ind dessertspoonfnl of condensed milk.
When smooth fill the cup with boiling
water stir till smooth and creamy.
Serve at once. +
So often people tell of the many things
hey have lost down their registers.
Money, buttons and thimbles are sure to
oil straight for the register. Place a
,iece Of fine wire netting in the top of
he pipes just below the register, then
Ehen anything is dropped into it, all you
iced to do is to lift your register and take
nut the articles.
Face masks and heavy pastes that are
nut on the complexion at night are not to
,e recommended. They constrict the /
,ores and shut in the sebaceous secre-.
ions, bringing on the very evils that one
j trying to annihilate. The whole pro-