Middletown transcript., 1908-08-22
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW


good to use in Indian bread, which is
usually servad warm, or they may be
mixed with bread and mashed potato
seasoned and fried like sausage.
Melted beef drippings or tallow can be
used in the place of parafin over the
top of jelly. Be sure when cold to cover
the space around the edge where it has
shrunk away from the glass.
To make perpetual paste, dissolve half
an ounce of alum in two teacupfuls OF
boiling water, beat in an equal weight of
-four, add few drops of oil of cloves and
let boil. This will keep for months.
Here is good use for leftover oatmeal:
Make batter as for bread, add the oat-
meal and beat in well. Put in little
lively yeast, and let stand over night.
Add little salt and soda and bake on
pancake griddIe. An egg or two is an
improvement.
After co ming in out of the rain let the
umbrella down and stand it on the
handle that it may dry in this position.
The water will drip. from the edges of
the frame and the cover dry uniformly.
When placed with the handle upward,
as it frequently is, the water runs to the
top of the umbrella, and the moisture is
there retained in the lining underneath
the ring, causing the silk or fabric with
which the frame is covered to become
tender and soon rot. Ordinarily the top
OF an umbrella wears out sooner than any
other part of it, and in the majority of
cases may be thus accounted for.
A woman who has worn black for
years says she keeps her clothes fresh
with a mixture made as follows Buy
5 cents worth of borax and 10 ".nt7'
worth of camphor gum. Put Lneiu luto
a large bowl, breaking the camphor gum
into small pieces. Pour over this quart
OF boiling water, stirring to dissolve the
borax. All the camphor will not dissolve.
When cool, put into bottle and cork
tightly. When ready to use it pour
little into basin, diluting it with half
the quantity OF cold water. Wet stock.
ing with this and sponge your black
goods, pressing afterward. This will re-
move all spots and grease and restore the
black.
Lettuce and celery may be kept fresh
and crisp for several days by wrapping
in a cloth wrung out of cold water and
then pinning the whole in thick news
paper.
If instead of spirits of camphor, CAM
phorated oil be used in cleaning furni-
ture, it will not only remove the white
stains but restore the polish as we'll.
Rub hair brushes with four;when quite
clean, remove all traces of -four with
dry towel This method preserves the
varnish on the wood and prevents the
bristles from becoming soft.
Keep fiat file in your kitchen drawer.
1t is the best thing in the world to
sharpen bread, meat and chopping knives.
If kitchen floors are painted with boiled
linseed oil they are cleaned very easily.
To preserve furs, pour two or three
drops of parafin oil upon the hands,
then rub it upon the fur. This will
preserve it from the great enemy, the
moth. All furs should be clean when
put away, and perfectly dry.
Ivory keys may be cleaned and whiten-
ed by mixing prepared white chalk with
tinge of sweet oil and sal-volatile into
paste and rub it on with chamois skin
and allow it to remain until dry.
A beauty cure that is engaging the at
tention of fashionable society at the
moment is the milk cure, and its only
fault is that it is ridiculously cheap for
cure adopted by fashionable society.
Milk ia rubbed into the face at night with
a piece of soft linen and allowed to dry
and in the morning the face is washed in
milk, but no soap must be used. Skin reg
ularly washed in milk is declared to be
proof against sunburn.
A linen frock or coat suit that has
shrunk may be heightened by adding
bands of colored linen. This is fashion,
able trimming this season, either put on
plain or joined to the white with scrolls
Of soutache braiding, running to the hem.
A favorite color combination is yellow
linen on white, braided in white. Pink
and blue are equally good, but scarcely as
mutual. Often these bands run down
either side of the coat, and the skirt has
front panels edged with color with hem
to match.
"Having tried it, recommend the fol-
lowing mode of keeping ice water for a
long time in common pitcher" says a
writer in Woman's Home Companion.
"Placesbetween two sheets of thick brown
paper layer OF cotton batting about half
an inch in thickness, fasten the ends of
paper and batting together, forming cir.
Gle, then sew or paste crown over one
end, making bow the shape of a stove
pipe hat minus the rim. Place this
over an ordinary pitcher filed with
ice water, making it deep enough to
rest on the table go as to exclude the air,
and you will be astonished to see the
length of time that the ice will keep
and the water remain cold after all the
ice has melted"