The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-07

to w HELPFUL HINTS
 TO HOUSEWIVES Several Ways To Remove Spots
 and Stains, Worth
 Knowing.
 Always serve olives on crushed ice n pretty dish.
 Vinegar improves with keeping and ihould be bought in quantities.
 Lemon juice will bring out the favor of fish better than anything else ,an.
 If a lump of butter is put into the saucepan while boiling rice there will 0e no boiling over.
 Califiower will be much better and -icher if 1t is boiled in half milk and half water instead of all water.
 Velveteen makes capital polishing cloths, so save old pieces from dress .s for the purpose. It is easily washed n a soap lather.
 Heat lemon thoroughly before squeezing and you will obtain nearly double the quantity of juice that you woudl If it had not been heated
 Nail stains may be removed from wood by scrubbing the wood with a of oxalic acid, half a pint of acid to quart of boiling water.
 To wash white silk use lukeWarm water and nothing but pure white soap, and iron with just warm iron It is the yellow soap, too hot water and too hot irons that make the silk turn yellow.
 In slicing pineapples 1t is well to remember not to use the same knife for slicing that has been used in peel ing. The rind contains an acid that is apt to cause a sore mouth and swollen lips.
 Silk stockings will look their bes, If they are washed In bran water. not with soap. To each quart of water allow two heaped tablespoonfuls oi bran, boil It for about five minutes then strain out the bran.
 A spot on polished wood caused by a hot. dish being placed upon 1t vii if 1t be covered with a lit. tie salad oil and salt, which, after | has been left on for an hour or so should then be rubbed off with sof cloth.
 When washing mauve prints and put little soda in the water in which they are washed in order tc keep the color from running out. Sods is said to have exactly the opposite eff feet on mauve that 1t has on other dyes.
 The celery knobs that grocers sel are now one of the popular vegetable. and are very wholesome. They ar, boiled like turnips, scraped, cut int small pieces and mixed with a French dressing for salad, or have a whitt sauce thrown over them and ar, served as an entree.
 Windows often need cleaning whel 1t is so cold that if water were used 1 would at once freeze on them. IT using paraffln instead; a rag dipped fl it will clean the glass perfectly an' give 1t a brightness impossible t obtain with water. Tissue pape makes good polisher, or, in fact, al most any soft paper
 Ink spots may be entirely remove by treating them with paste com posed of milk and starch, which mus be left on for a day or two and the brushed off It may be necessary { repeat the process,
 TO remove the grease stains whic are formed upon kitchen wall b the steam caused by cooking and b the dust of sweeping apply the fol lowing solution by means of a sol cloth or sponge: A. pailful of war; soapsuds, a little ammonia and fou tahlespoonfuls of kerosene. Greas spots may also be removed by press ing plotting paper to the wall b means of hot iron.
 UP TO-DATE HAPPENS.
 Time was when women fastene staid bonnets on their simply coiffe hair with hatpins Just pins with sma black knobs on the end-no ornamel tation about them.
 Now things are different. Some cie' CT person designed a few pins wi' fancy tops-small gilt balls. lover knots and other simple devices. B the hats grew and grew in size; tl arrangement of the hair grew ar