Middletown transcript., 1906-05-26

| luSlO6S OF caEdIeS DeauIlIulIy.
| Sweet oil and powdered rotten-stone
vigorously applied with piece OF soft
flannel will clean brass ornamental
pieces.
The safest way to cleanse bronze is to
rub it with soft cloth moistened with
sweet oil, polish afterward with an oil
channels All dust must be removed be-
fore attempting TO clean and polish it.
An average sized tumbler holds half a
pint.
A weak solution OF oxalic acid will re-
move mildew from white linen or cotton.
After the st lin is removed rinse garment
in several clear waters.
Cut glass may be made very brilliant by
washing it in warm soapsuds and drying
in sawdust and cover well with it. When
all moisture has been absorbed lift the
dish and wipe with soft pieces of linen.
Ordinary glass may be made very brilliant
by same treatment.
Onion sandwiches are said to have
fine effect on the complexion and are
good for school girls. Slice the onions
very thin, salt and place between small
slices OF bread and butter A bit of pars-
ley, it is said, will remove the odor from
the breath.
Marks on polished wood made by hot
dishes should be rubbed with paraflin.
This will remove the white marks and Won
can afterward polish with beeswax and
turpentine in the usual way.
| If you will give your hair an egg sham
poo every night and if You will sit in the
sunlight for fifteen or twenty minutes
each day, your variegated tresses will
soon acquire more harmonious state of
color.
The refrigerator should be looked over
often, and food that will not be used
again should be removed at once. It
should be cleaned thoroughly at least
once week with hot water and soda and
then clear cold water, wiped perfectly dry
and left often to the air before replac-
ing ice or food. All food placed in the
refrigerator should be covered, as one
food is liable to counteract the favor of
another, as sliced cucumbers in the same
compartment with butter spoils the but
ter.
Silver Polish Cream of tartar, 2
ounces, prepared chalk, 2 ounces; pufver-
lied alum, ounce; water sufficient to
make paste. Apply with soft cloth,
allow to dry and polish with flannel.
A little thin cold starch rubbed over
windows and mirrors and then wiped off |
with soft cloth is an easy way of produe-
ing shining results.
II tiles have become spotted, wash them
over with lemon juice and leave this for
Is minutes, then rub them up with a
soft cloth. 1t is much better. never to
wash tiles, but simply rub them over
with damp cloth, and then with skim
milk, or milk and water. If, however,
they are unglazed and very dirty, dip
damp flannel in clean Calais sand and
clean them with this, using as little water
as possible and then polish with milk as
before.
Nearly all fish to be fried are improved
by the addition of teaspoonfu or two of
lemon juice to the spot in which they are
cooked.
Spots may be removed from gingham
by being wetted with milk and covered
with common salt Leave for an hour or
go and rinse out in several waters.
Have your refrigerator sweet and clean
and ready for use by burning in it
small disinfecting sulphur candle; then
leave the doors wide open, allowing it to
air thoroughly.
II the skin of fowls peels easily it is a
sign of youth. If the spurs OF chickens
are over quarter OF an inch long it indi-
Gates old age.
Many rust spots, of seeming unaccount-
able origin, may be traced to the bluing
used in washing. Prussian blue, the
constituent Of some OF the bIuings on the
market, is compound Of iron, which, in
the presence of an alkali, deposits the
rust spot. II you suspect the bluing you
use take little of the compound in
vessel with soap, or, better, caustic potash
and bring to boil. If iron separates, the
combound is Prussian blue, and you will
have to be very careful in rinsing to get
out all the soap.
When pouring hot fruit >into a glass
dish, place the latter ona wet cloth; this
prevents any chance of the dish cracking
To clean gold jewelry with stones in it,
wash it in warm suds made with yellow
soap, with ten drops of sal volatile in
them You will find this makes the jew
elry brilliant.
Polished tables may be kept in good
condition il about once a week they are
rubbed with mixture Of equal parts Of
turpentine and olive oil. Apply with
piece Of flannel, afterward polishing with
a dry cloth.
II you shut your finger in door. or
hrni.n IL mt IL at once in water as hat "a
you can bear. Change the water as it
cools, and keep the finger in for fifteen
minutes.
To keep bread and butter fresh aud
moist, putt in cool place, cover closely
with serviette or cloth wrung out of
cold water, aud many hours after it will
be as moist az when cut.
To polish the dining-room table take a
quarter Of pound bees Max-the I'M
hlaael,p1 will do-aud have rnadv a niaca !