The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-11
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

The garbage can should be cleaned thoroughly at least once a week with hot suds, rubbed in with an old broom, and then rinsed with a. solution of washing Sola or lye.
 When starching colored summer fab rics it is good idea to use coffee starch, made by adding two cupfuls of perfectly clear coffee to the starch after it has been boiled.
 New grass stains can be removed with cold water and ammonia, and stains of long standing with alcohol If the stains are on goods that may fade, apply molasses before wetting
 A cake made without butter needs a quick ovens a cake with butter ex- cept dark spice cakes and fruit cakes, need 8 moderately quick oven, and the spice cakes and fruit cakes need a slow oven.
 As guard against accidents when a valuable vase is filled with flowers, 1t should first be half filled with sand, after which pour in the water. It will prevent it's easily tipping over.
 Herb sandwiches are very palatab1e during the hot weather, being made of lettuce, pepper grass, water cress, pep pernint and chives, all mixed togeth- CT and covered with mayonnaise dress ing.
 To remove an obstinate sediment from a vessel, pour in half cup of vinegar and put into this a heaping tablespoonful of salt. Let stand half a day and then wash with warm wa ter and soap.
 Continual scrubbing with a brush will roughen a natural wood kitchen table. It may be cleaned even bet ter without roughening by using half a cut of lemon, and then rinsing with hot water.
 When, ice water is not available, water may be cooled by placing it in a tin vessel and covering with a coarse wet cloth. Place if possible where a breeze will blow upon it. It will cool by evaporation.
 Equal parts of turpentine and am- monia will remove paint from cloth ing. Soak the spot in the mixture and then rub it hard, dip in soap suds and rub it again. Almost any paint stain can be removed in this way.
 To make candied cherries, clip half the stem from each cherry, prick a in wide-mouthed bottle, put in lib- eral quantity of crushed rock candy, fill with brandy and seal
 Stale sponge cake, soaked in sher- ry, used as lining of baking dish, and the center filled with sliced and sugared peaches, makes a delightful baked pudding. When it is baked cover the top with meringue, brown delicately. It should be eaten cold with cream.
 w Hell WdLtTIuSlOIS dIIO Cdbl01Oup0S are lacking in sweetness they may be served in the following way: Cut out the center, remove the seeds and cut into moderately small pieces. Place these in a bowl and put in bits of chopped ice. Pour mayonnaise dress ing over them and serve.
 Cherry tapioca is an appetizing dish. After soaking the tapfoca in water and biting the cherries. drain the juice into the tapioca, add a cup of sugar, a level teaspoonful of salt and cook in a double boiler until the tap ioca is clear. Add the cherries, cook fifteen minutes and chill.
 The following mixture makes a bran bag that adds refreshment to the bath: A pound and a half of new bran, three-quarters of a pound of a1- mond meal, eight ounces of powdered orris root and five ounces of grated castillo soap. Make the bags five or six inches square and fill each with three tablespoonfulS of the mixture. The quantity given will supply seven bags