The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-02-07
Eleven Brief Suggestions.

By Alice Gross, Sycamore, Ill.
l.. The worn out nantes from ga
burners are superior to any silve
polish.
2. Mud spots on black clothes cal
be removed by rubbing with raw pc
tato.
3. Make starch with soap suds, tt
give gloss to linen and prevent iron
from sticking.
4. To clean silver with deep en-
craving, use paste made of within.
and ammonia; apply with brush.
| 5. Use olive oil when sailing al
monds or peanuts. 1t gives a fine
flavor than butter.
6. Keep an old teakettle on the
hot-air register, and have hot water
all the time, besides saving gas.
Z. A little grated horse-radish ad
ded to milk gravy is a nice accom-
paniment to boiled beef.
g. If when making corn meal mush
to fry, milk is used instead of water
it will be found to brown in half the
time.
9. Put scraps of cold meat through
food chopper and stir in corn meal
mush when making it to fry. An
appetizing dish for breakfast
10. Cold boiled rice left from a
meal can be utilized by adding a beat
en- egg and milk and formed into
cakes and fried. Nice for tea.
II. Rub worn spots on black kid
gloves and shoes with a mixture of
olive oil and black ink.
To drive off ants.-Those who are
troubled with ants will be glad to
know that five cents worth of tartar
emetic mixed with equal parts Of
sugar and dissolved in water and
placed in small dishes where the ants
frequent will drive them away. AS
the water dries add more. Mrs. C.
Conrad, Des Moinss, Iowa.
Gasoline Clensing.-When wash
silks, gloves, or other articles in gaso-
lene, set the vessel containing the
gasoline in larger one partly filed
with very hot water; this warns the
gasoline and makes it more cleansing
and pleasanter for the person doing
the work. Wash each article as
thoroughly as you would in soap and
water; then rinse in more clean gaso
line and hang up to dry.-Nellie A.
Combs, Oshkosh, Wis.
Remedy for Hay Fever.-If per-
sons subject to hay fever will keep
the inside of the nostrils well anoint-
ed with cold creme or simple vase
line, and diligently use menthol in
haler, which can be purchased for
fifty cents at any drug store, their
may be greatly mitigated,
and in many cases entirely prevented.
This treatment should be commenc-
ed well before the midsummer sneez-
ing sets in, and continued faithfully
the hay fever season
Mrs. M. P. Richie, Nora Springs, la.
Easy way to spread thick icing
Have you ever tried to make thick
icing and failed? Always line your
cake pan with a stiff paper which has
been cut to fit. This must stand
about an inch higher than the sides
If the pan. When the cake is baked
cave the paper on. This forms a
support for the icing which can be
poured in to any desired depth. When
t has hardened, the paper can easily
,e removed. A. tiny layer of melted
chocolate spread over a white icing
makes a cake more elaborate with
,ut little work.-Mrs. John r. Rip
ey, Poultney, Yer.
In the Pantry.-To keep pantry
helves in the best and most SAM
airy manner, with the least trouble,
,uy white table oilcloth-the one
md a quarter yard in width being de-
irable; cut strips very straight the
ongest way of the shelf about three
inches wider. Make -four paste and
,ut over the edges, allowing one to
ONE up about one inch above the
Jack of the shelf, the other to come
,ver and paste under the lower edge
# the front; this will last for years,
My needing wiping off with a cloth
nd warm water.-A. B. Skinner,
Princeton, Ill.
New Biscuit Pan.-Ask your tin
er to cut piece of Russian sheet
ron, which, after being turned under
ne-half inch on all sides, will be just
arge enough to slip into your oven.
lave, an oblong ring rivited to one
r both ends for use in drawing 1t
rom the oven. This will cost only
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