Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-05
KITCHEN KRINKLES.


Salt steak after it is broiled, not
before.
People with weak hearts should
never take hot baths.
New beetS require one hour for
cooking old beets four hours.
Butter is the purest form of animal
fat and should be eaten freely.
Blue denim makes cool and effec-
tive background for some pictures.
A desertspoonful of olive oil taken
three times day is very beneficial.
Hard, Sour apples eaten raw re-
quire two hours and fifty minutes to
digest.
Sweet, mellow apples eaten raw
require one and one-half hours to
digest.
Rubbed well into yenOwed knife
handles OF ivory, turpentine restores
the color.
Milk cans should always have a
rinsing with cold water prior to the
washing with hot.
Gilt frames may cleaned by wiping
with small sponge dipped lightly
in oil of turpentine.
Brush pie-crust over with white of
egg before putting in the fruit. It
will keep it from becoming soggy."
A large basketful of charcoal placed
in damp cellar where milk is kept
will prevent its becoming tainted.
BroOms dipped for few minutes
in suds once a week will last much
longer than they otherwise would do.
Be sure and shake the dust out of
q black garment every time you wear
it. twill look better and last longer.
In making white sauce for fish or
vegetables always blend the -four with
the hot butter before adding the hot
milk.
A specialist in nervous diseases
says that women should sleep nine
hours at night and one hour in the
day time.
1t takes two hours for a raw egg to
digest; two and q half hours for one
soft boiled and three hours for one
cooked hard.
Whole wheat is the only natural
food containing all of the elements of
the human body in almost the correct
proportion.
Very light cake may be made as
well from whole wheat as white flour
and should be made thus, more un-
iversally than it is.
Family pictures should not be on
exposition in those rooms of the
house which are set apart for oc-
casiOns of ceremony.
Hot water should never be used
for glass of any kind which has held
milk until the latter has been thor
ougly rinsed in cold.
Cheap dried fruit should be exam
ined carefully to make sure it is not
stale and sugary from last year, and
free from tiny grubs.
Put q few grains of rice in the salt
cellars to keep the salt from caking.
AS the cellar is shaken the rice will
keep the salt moving.
When tin plates and dishes are
very dirty it is good plan to wash
them in strong soda and water before
securing and polishing them.
To clean a fishy frying pan, fill
with cold water and place on the fire
to boil, When boiling, put a red-hot
cinder in, and then wash in the usual
way.
The difficulty of drawing threads
in fine linen is much lessened if a
piece of fine, dry; white soap is rubbed
carefully over the space where it is
desired to do the work.
They Hadn't Net.
When P. T. Barnum was at the
head of his great moral show" it
was his rule to send complimentary
tickets to clergymen, and the Gus
tom is continued to this day. Not
long ago, after the Rev. DR.. Walker
succeeded to the pastorate of the
Rev. DIR. Hawks, in Hartford, there
came to the parsonage, addressed to
DR.. Hawks, tickets for the circus,
with the compliments of the famous