The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-26

Remember in removing stains that all alkili stains can be removed by weak solution of citric acid, while acid stains can be removed with ann monia.
 In order to keep your dinner can dies from running, place them in the icehox for a couple of hours before dinner You will find that they will not spill over or sputter.
 Instead of securing the bottom of the dishpan when greasy, wipe it off with small rag dipped in kerosene. Burn the rag. Try it and see how easily 1t comes off, and your dishpan will never have a leak
 There is nothing better to keep the furniture bright than common coal oil. Dampen a soft cloth with it and rub all the vanished surfaces with it, including doors, castings, base boards, etc, and they will always be fresh and bright.
 The paper coffee boxes lined with paraffin are splendid for keeping the dried beans and prevent weevils get ting in. Close the boxes after filling and bind the edge with passepartout or strips of muslin dipped in boiled starch or white Of egg, Beans will keep for years in this manner.
 Secure very large pane of glass for the candy board when making French candies and note how much nicer the work is done. The glass is easily cleaned and is splendid for cool ing the candies on, for glass cools more easily than stoneware and it is easy to lift the small pieces if they stick to 1t.
 Frequently 6 painting will bulge and be very unattractive unless reme- died An artist claims that such | pieces can be remedied without any danger of destroying the paint by dampening both the right and wrong side and keeping the canvas under very heavy pressure until thoroughly dried
 White gloves may be cleaned in the l following way: Lay them on clean table, and rub into them mixture of finely powdered fuller's earth and alum, in equal quantities Work this well in, and then brush 1t off. After ward sprinkle the gloves with dry bran and whiting, and finally shake and dust them,
 Where cartridge paper has faded during the summer, it is said, the original color can be restored by get | ting regular water-color paint and mixing it with Paris white and the required amount of sizing to hold. Rub the dust off the paper with cloth and apply the water color to the paper with a calcimining brush.
 The busy housewife often has diffi- culty in slipping a brass curtain rod | in newly starched and ironed mus lin curtain. One way of overcoming l the difficulty is to run the rod through the hem before ironing the curtain, In this case the upper hem should not be dampened when the curtains are sprinSled. Slip the fin- ger of an old kid glove over the end of the rod before running 1t through the hem. This will prevent the sharp edge of the rod from tearing the cur tain.
 l To rejapan old tea trays, carefully wash the tray and dry before fire. Retoueh the bare places with bronze | powder mixed with copal varnlsh. When this Is quite dry varnish the whole surface with the copal yarnish and place the tray in a warm room to dry and harden.
 Indian meal is very good for clean ing mating. Sprinkle the meal over the floor and then have it thoroughly swept out. Benzine and French chalk will remove grease from mat ting. Cover the spot thickly with chalk and moisten by sprinkling the benzine on it. When the benzine has evaporated brush off the chalk and the spot will have disappeared, l When you go on your next summer trip have four or~f1ve pieces of mat or strawboard cut the size of the inside of your trunk, so they will slip in easily. Wrap dresses in tissue paper and tie to the boards with tape. You can pack or unpack, and nothing need be disturbed till it E ready to use. One woman lived" in trunk this summer, and wash dresses that were not worn were as fresh as when first packed.
 In old houses where the boards are far apart and the floors are extreme ly cold even when covered with car