Middletown transcript., 1908-05-02
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

When window shades become faded q
bottom take off roller, hem top like bot
tom on machine with long stitches, tacl
bottom to roller.
To mend broken china, tie parts to
getler tightly, boil in new milk six hours
will wash like new if left to dry a few
days before using.
Baked potatoes will cook mealy if end
are nipped off before placing in oven.
To brighten gilt frames, take suficien
| flour of sulphur to give golden tinge tt
about one and one-half pints OF water
In this boil four old onions-strain of
liquid. When cool, go over frames with
a soft brush; when dry frames will looA
like new.
Mix stove polish with turpentine in.
stead of water; will last much longer and
prevent rust.
To remove fresh paint from floors,
cover with vinegar, wipe up with clean
cloth. Repeat if necessary.
To help keep preserves, wrap each glass
jar in paper.
10 prevent lamp smoking, soak wick
in vinegar and dry before using.
A little bluing added to whitewash
will still further whiten it.
Moths will not enter wooden garments
wrapped in newspaper.
To drive away ants, mix salt, pepper,
sugar and borax together and scatter on
| shelf.
Set saucer of cold water in oven to
keep bread from burning. --
Keep an apple in the cake box to keep
| cake moist.
An old-fashioned homemade furniture
polish consists OF one-third spirits Of tur-
pentine and two-thirds sweet oil. Ap-
ply with old flannel, and rub dry with
another cloth. This removes all surface
marks from polished furniture, and with
repeated rubbings will give high polish
to unvarnished hard wood.
To prepare mustard plaster in haste,
trim the crust from thin slice of white
bread, then sprinkle it thickly with
ground mustard, spread very thin cloth
over the mustard, then dampen with
vinegar or water.
To clean cream nuns yelling: Make
-four hot in the oven, spread the material
on clean cloth on firm table, rub the
hot -four into the stuff with a piece Of
clean flannel. Shake out the dirty -four,
and apply fresh, till the surface is clean.
Use black knitting silk for darning
stockings and you will be pleased with
the work, for the needle runs smoothly
under and over the stitches, with the re.
suit that the patch is very neat, much
more go than when darning cotton is
used.
To smooth rusted fatirons take rough
piece of toweling and cover it with salt, on
which rub the heated iron; then rub over
it a piece of beeswax, and then on piece
of clean rough cloth. The irons will
come up excellent. A rough iron will
make sad work of your clothes. Be sure
to rince your clothes we'll, or they will
yellow, even with the most perfect irons
and careful manipulation.
There are two very good ways OF keep
ing carpets looking nice. One is to 60
over them once week with broom dip.
ped in hot water, to which little turpen.
tine has been added. Another, and per.
haps better way, is to sprinkle the car
pet with moist tea leaves and salt. Then
sweep with short strokes with the nap Of
the carpet. The leaves gather the dust,
while the salt brightens the eolors and
helps drive away moths.
| A good home. made cement for broken
crockery is unslacked lime or plaster OF
paris mixed with the white of an egg to
the consistency OF cream. A cement that
| is practically water proof is made by dis
solving ordinary white glue in warm
milk.
For whitening boards or cleaning mar
Bile take half pound each of soda, pow
dered chalk and powdered pumice stone,
stir together in small quantity of water
and then add halls pound of soft soap.
Mix together into paste and use as
soap with scrubbing brush.
Honey should be kept in the dark or
it will granulate.
The carpet-sweeper will be found more
effectual if pushed in the same direction
as the pile of the carpet, not against it.
In dampening clothes use clean
whisk broom. This will dampen the
clothes evenly all over and make the week
ly ironing much easier task.
Teakettles would last longer if, after
use, they were turned upside down to
drain dry. 1t lis the little drop of water
left at the bottom which starts the rust
that ends in leak.
When oilcloth has been laid for few
months and is beginning to lose its shiny
surface it can be renewed and made to-
last twice as long. Melt q little ordinary
glue in pint Of water, letting it stand on
the top of the oven until it is dissolved.
Wash the oilcloth thoroughly and let it
dry. Then at night, when no one will
walk on it, go over the entire surface care
fully with flannel dipped into the glue
water. Choose dry day for doing it,
and by morning you will have fine gloss.
A hair brush can be easily and quickly
washed, ,,as nothing is needed but some