The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-17
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.


Put sample of the doubtful butter,
about the size of a small chestnut,
into an ordinary tablespoon. Hold this
over fiame-gas, kerosene or alcohol
stirring the butter with a splinter
of wood or match as it melts.
Bring to as brisk boil as possible,
and after this has begun stir thorough,
ly two or three times at intervals,
especially just before the boiling
ceases. Oleomargarine and renovated
butter boil noisily, with good deal
of splrttering. They produce no foam
or very little.
Genuine butter usually boils with
less noise, and produces an abundance
of foam. 1t is the difference in regard
to the foam which is most marked.
Stains on the hands can be remow
ed by acetic acid or salts of lemon,
and ink marks will soon yield to PUN
ice stone.
Parafin split on a stone floor may
be removed by rubbing bath brick ov
er tho mark and letting it stay until
next day, then wash in the usual way
and the floor will be perfectly clean
Paint can be removed from glass by
rubbing it with hot, strong vinegar.
Rinse in clear water. Dry and run
in a little lemon juice. Don't use the
borax very often, as it will make the
skin dry and inclined to crack.
Prematurely gray hair is caused by
lack of nourishment at the hair roofs
Stimulating the hair with gentle mas.
sage and good hair tonic will prevent
a too rapid growth of white hair.
To insure a good light wicks must
be changed often, as they soon be
come cloged and do not permit the
free passage of the oil. Soaking wicks
in vinegar twenty-four hours before
placing in the lamp insures clear
fame.
Always. darn table damask, as well
as various other materials, with
travelling from the CLOTH II there Is q
hole, put under it piece of the same
damask, matching the patterns as near
as possible. Then darn very carefully
backward and forward with the ravel.
ling. If the work is done right, the
darn will hardly be noticed after laun.
dering.
II your dinner is ready before you
wish to serve it, place the meat over
a large kettle of boiling water, cover
it closely and then spread cloth over
the whole. In this way the gravy viii
not be dried up.
Ginger Cakes-3.4 of cup OF but
ter, one cup of light brown sugar, four
eggs, one cup baking molasses, half
cup of thick milk or cream, with a
teaspoonful of baking soda in it, three
cups -four, one nutmeg, two teaspoon.
fuls lof cinnamon and one of ginger.
and very little cloves. The eggs do
not need to be beaten separately. Mix
butter and sugar, then eggs, molaeses,
spice, milk and -four. Can be baked
they do not get nice If baked too
Dispatch.
Peanut Wafers.-Peanut walters,
while not especially new, are always
welcome. Make ready two quarts OF
peanuts, shelled, skinned" and chop.
ped or pounded. Beat to a cream one
cupfu! of sugar and one-hah
cupful of butter. Add three-quarters
Of cup OF milk, two small cupfuls of
sifted -four and one and one-haH tea.
spoonfuls of vanilla. Butter a tin
sheet. or the bottom (outside) of q
dripping pan, and spread the dough
over 1t in thin layer, using lrndfe
N spatula. Sprinkle thicbIy with the
suts and bake. AS soon as removed
from the oven cut in squares and
;aa1e from the Washington Star.