Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-23
Household Hints.

White pepper will be found preferable
to black in seasoning chicken soup
For cleaning down stairs q stiff,
plain brush is better than whisk
broom.
A few chopped almonds added to a
custard or bread pudding will greatly
improve it's flavor.
A cereal pan is much more easily
cleaned if cold water is allowed to run
in it as soon as the cereal is finished.
Hot water hardens the mixture
Canvas shoes may be cleaned with
soap and water, if one works quickly,
so that the moisture does not penetrate
the canvas. Make a thick lather with
pure white soap and warm water.
To clean white marble wash it thor
oughfy with soap and water, then brush
1t over well, especially in the crevices.
with whiting mixed with little blue,
as used for ceilings. Allow it to dry
thoroughly, and then polish with a
clean dry cloth.
To clean suede gloves nut the gloves
on trees" or on your hands, and rub
them well with fine oatmeal, which
should finally be brushed off with a
may be removed with benzine, applied
on piece of clean flannel.
If you find the hardwood floor is
sticky after being treated with the
usual preparation of boiled oil and
turpcntine, get a pail of strong cider
vinegar, wiring cloth out of this and
wipe the floor with the strong acid. 1t
will improve it in short time.
When beating eggs to use for dip
ping croquettes, a teaspoonful of water
added to each egg will avoid any
stringiness.
when using cOrnStarCh or arrOwroot
for thickening, always wet it well with
cold milk or water before stirring it
into the hot liquid.
A little vaselne may be rubbed over
KID shoes at night, and rubbed off with
a soft cloth in the morning. Thus a
good polish may be obtained, and the
Kid will be preserved by the vaseline
When the shoes are shabby, vaselinc
VIII still be a good dressing for them,
if little lamp black be mixed with it.
To clean swans down, lift it up and
down in warm suds made with white
soap. Wash a second time in bluing
water, rinse and shake dry before an
open fire in the sunshine. 1t must not
be permitted to dry without shaking
it all the time, for this makes it light
and fluffy. Outlines it can be cleaned
with gasoline.
Always keep the pieces OF wall pa
per left after papering room. Roll
the pieces together and keep in a pa
how hn &c
torn it can be replaced with new
When faded, expose a piece of paper
to the sunlight to fade the tints until
they match perfectly, then match it
against the paper and you will not re-
greet saving the patches.
A hired housekeeper dented a tiny V
at the top of the wire CARPET beaten
ana used it to slip under picture wires
to lift them from the wall 1t was al
so used to replace them with. The
heaviest pictures could be lifted down
IN this manner. Such a device is handy
FOR women who are in danger when
climbing up and down step ladders dur
ing house-cleaning season.
Have plenty of dish towels and line
or two on which to dry them. Have
several sets of these cloths, two for
china, two for glassware and three for
the tin and crockery ware. Allow them
to be used only for their legitimate
branch of the dish washing and change
once a week for clean ones all round.
The dishes will look nicer and the tow
els will be more easily kept clean than
if you go about it the usual way.
The grape fruit salad at a recent
wedding breakfast was served in bas-
kets cut from the shells Of the fruit.
One feature of the baskets was the
notching of the yellow peel at the top
edge, while the inner white lining
membrane was left straight behind the
notches, throwing the saw-tooth edge
into prominence. At one side near the
top of each handle there was tied with
narrow white ribbon sprig or two
of asparagus fern and lily of the
valley spray. For the salad white,