The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-23
OF INTEREST TO
THE HOUSEWIFE.

wilted vegetables should be soaked in
cold water for an hour or two before they
are cooked.
To avoid washing the holding board lay
over 1t a sheet of heavy glazed wrapping
paper. If well Toured, doughs are less
apt to stick to it than to the board.
AS soon as a salt ham or tognue is cooked
remove 1t from the boiling water to a nan
of cold water for a few seconds. This will
loosen the skins, which may be easily
peeled off.
If your pies run over either the plates
are not deep enough to hold the Juice or
else there is not sufficient space for the
steam to escape. Use a deep agate plate
and make a good opening in the upper
crust.
Never wash tea or coffee pots with water
IN which there is soap. When they become
badly discolored fill with cold water in
which Is dissolved a tablespoon of pow
dered borax and heat slowly until the
water boils. Rinse thoroughly with hot
water and dry. Always dry on back of
range.
A washing fluid much recommended by
experts consists of half a pound of potash.
two quarts of boiling water and a quarter
Oh a teaspoonful each Of salts of tartar
ana spirits of ammonia. A breakfast cupfuI
OF this to be placed in the boiler after the
clothes are washed and before they are
rinsed will make them beautifully white.
me outside of a saucepan should be as
clean as the inside To ~nreyent. the smoke
from sucking rub the outside of>aA sssz~.
saucepan with fat before placing 1t on fhe
stove. Wash with hot water and soda IF
a saucepan brush be used the saucenans
may be kept we'll secured without damapa
to the hands. A proper brush, little and =
VERY nG9fnI ono On IA ~A-I-
binding together some heather twigs with
string. ="
Serubbing kitchen tables, cleaning sauce-
pans and many other things takes half tha
time If article to be cleansed is first
ana then sprinkled over with a comnnund
made by mixing together one aprt of nom
Ice and three parts of soap powder Put
this cleaning powder in an old flour dred-
ger, or make a dredger for yourself of an
empty cocoa tin. All that is needed for
transformation Is a perforated lid, and that
you can easily manage by hammering a big
nail through the lid several times.
A maid in a large hotel taught one
woman how to place the pillows on the
bed without a wrinkle showing in the slip.
The hotel maids way was to AXE the pill
low by two corners, the long way. and
shake the feathers down well. Then. still
retaining hold of the ends, she laid the
pillow on the bed, the edge coming to
where the pillow would lie. Then she
turned 1t right back in place. This left all
the extra fulness in the slip beneath the
pillow and out of sight, while the pillow
itself presented a smooth, unbroken sur
face.
Morning glories can be easily grown IN
the house during the winter. Planted In
pots, they will bloom in about six weeks.
Put three or four seeds in each pot and
place near a window. If planted late in the
winter put tumblers over them until they
get started. Let them run on a basket reed
or piece Of featherbone and when it is
nearly covered bend it over and stick the
other end in the pot and there will be n
circle Of blossoms. The vines can be
trained on cords and so delicately outline
a frieze which would be charming In a
breakfast room. Nasturtiums may be used
in the same way and cobaea is also a good
runner for the house..