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

If you wish never to fail to get light
potpie, have shallow steamer made that
will fit inside the kettle and come up just
even with the top. The liquor will boil
up over the dumplings, but they are not
submerged, which makes them heavy.
To bake two kinds of bread or cake in
tin fit section of heavy cardboard cross
wise in the centre of a brick-shaped tin,
or better, get timer to solder in piece
of tin. With the cardboard, which
should be we'll creased on both sides, only
bread or cake can be baked, but with the
tim, meat may be cooked in one partition,
beans or vegetable in the other.
Akin to this is the divided spider, to
use with hand coa-oil stove. 1t has
three reeeptacles, each with cover and
handle, go shaped that they fit together in
the shape of spider. Meat can be boiled
| in one, vegetable in another, and in the
third water be heating for tea and dish
water. Any one OF these can beremoved
when the contents are done. This is
great help in winter, as we'll as in Summer,
when one does not wish to keep up the
fire in the kitchen stove.
As a mother long since rebelled
against waiting upon my husband and
children. As matter of principle, l in
sisted that they eac b take care of their
own personal belongings, putting away
their clothes, etc. If they failed to attend
to this, l simply let their clothes lie
around until they put them away. In
| few weeks every member of the house.
hold had learned this little lesson and
acted upon it. 1t has simplified my
housekeeping, and has been benefit to
husband, sons and daughters by develop
ing the habit of thought for others in little
things.
If the covers of the kitchen range get
red and will not blacken easily, try rub
bing lemon juice first, then blacken the
usual way.
Hang a child blackboard in the kit
chen with piece OF chalk attached. 1t
is more convenient than pencil and paper
and not so easily lost.
| 1t will be economy to finish your sheets
with the same width hem at each end.
By so doing they can be used either side
up and gain much wear.
| Cold water, tablespoonful of ammonia
and soap, will remove machine grease
when other means would not answer on
account of colors running.
After bathing tired feet in hot water it
is very soothing to rub them with olive
, oil.
Hives, as a rule, are the result OF a dis
ordered stomach. They require both in
| ternal and external remedies. The best
medicine is dose of castor oil, the guam
; tity, of course, to depend upon the age OF
the patient. Bathing with water to which
i. bi-carbonate of soda has been added IS
one of the best means of alaying the in
tense irritation. Constant and frequent
applications of good cold cream will also
} soothe wonderfully.
In order TO be in perfect health one
must be temperate in eating. The meals
also should be regular. Regularity is one
of the golden rules OF well-ordered lie.
A clear skin is one Of the essentials OF
: oood health and beauty, and nothing con-
duces more to this end than frequent
baths and brisk rubbings. They will do
much to keep the skin soft and the whole
body vigorous.
After a dusty trip the face should be
carefully bathed in warm water and per-
haps massaged with cold cream.
, If YOU wish to become plump, drink
r plenty of milk, eat starchy vegetables
such as potatoes and rice, beans, corn and
the like; eat bread and take raw eggs.
! This cough remedy has rarely been
. known to fail in giving relief: Roast a
q lemon very carefully without burning It,
: When it is thoroughly hot cut it open In
q one end and squeeze into a cup containing
, three ounces of finely powdered sugar
Take a spoonful whenever your cough
troubles you. 1t is excellent and mos'
p agreeable to the taste.
y In healthy persons the tiny sWea'
e glands of the skin are always active, ano
is the secretion, save when it is excessive
e passes off as soon as formed: or, more ex
actly, Immediately it reaches the surface
st 1t does this by being changed into vapor
l. hence the skin never looks damp. AM
1t fatty material on the surface of the ski
n will impede this evaporation and max
IL the liquid collect in drops.
Water will do wonders for one if peop
but realize it. As complexion maker
for instance, it is great beautitier use'
70 both internally and externally. An ex
= eellent tenic effect may be had by taklnl
: face bath at least once a day in coll
= water. Fill basin with the water, plac
e ing it on stand or chair where it can b
!, conveniently reached without too mnel
:. STOPPING. Drawing long breath, dipth
: face in and out Of the cold water for abou
= two or three minutes. When it is neces
: sary to breathe tbs mouth can be lifte
from the water, but Immediately tax
another deep breath.