Middletown transcript., 1909-06-26
USEFUL THINGS 70 KNOW

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from wooden floors. Use two tablespoon.
fuls 10 4 qnart Of water andNuse DO soap.
A fat trunk tray kept in the laundry
will prove a great convenience. The
.napkins, doilies, lunch clothes ETC., may
be laid oat on it in neat separate piles.
Cut flowers may be preserved for an
unusually long time.ifa a little saitpetsr or
carbonate Of soda is added to the water.
Salt also helps to keep them fresh.
White paint, when dirty, should be
washed with milk, which will effectualiy
remove the dirt. Golored paint may be
treated in a similar way with cold tea,
which is an excellent solvent.
Clean mahogany with cold drawn lin
seed oil and polish with clean cloths.
Marble should be washed with ammo.
MIA and water, rather than soap and water.
White yeils dipped into skinned milk
and pinned upon sheet will be as fresh
aud crisp as new when they dry.
Kerosene will polish zinc, if it is rubbed
on with soft cloth until clean and then
washing the zinc in boiling water.
When cutting brick butter into small
squares for use on the table bits OF the
butter often will cling to the knife and
spoil the looks Of the square. II piece
Of parafin paper is wrapped around the
silver knife the butter will cut in sharp.
clear squares aud will not cling to the
knife at all.
One often will find that thin glasses
are difficult to wash and leave clear and
unclouded. Wash themin hot water and
pure white soap and rinse them imme.
diately in water Of the same temperature
and set them aside to drain. Do not
wipe them until they are nearly dry aud
then polish With clean towel. Clean
tissue paper is excellent for polishing
glasses. They are more apt to break II
you dry them while they are wet and
they are also more inclined to be cloudy.
For heartburn try one-half teaspoonful
Of salt IN little water.
To keep cheese moist and free from
mold wrap in cloth wet with vinegar.
II you heat your knife slightly you can
cut hot bread or cake quite easily with it.
Brass work can be kept bright If it is
rubbed occasionally with little salt and
vinegar.
Heat is the best and quickest cure for
neuralgia, and it is best applied by means
of bags of heated salt.
Serve crisp celery with cold meat: 1t
is always. appreciated and is a nerve tonic
of considerable effectiveness.
For washing coarse clothes soft soap is
the best and It has the advantage of going
farther than hard yellow soap.
A severe paroxysm Of coughing may be
arrested, by giving the patient teaspoon.
full of glycerine in wine glass of hot
milk,
Tea and ground coffee should be kept
either in tin or a glass vessel covered
with lid and should always be kept
tightly covered.
Nothing is more depressing to an invalid
than an untidy room, with bottles Of med
icines and spoons filling tablesand shelves.
II tiny pinch Of carbonate of soda is
put into the saucepan in which fruit is
being stewed, less sugar will be needed to
sweeten it.
To clean your pewter, first wash it in
very hot water, rub it with fine silver
sand. and, when it is quite dry, polish
we'll with leather.
Butter will remove almost any kind of
stain except ink stain. Rub the butter
into the stain, then wash quickly N hot
water With fine soap in the ordinary way.
Fat will not burn if it has something to
do, SO if it has to be left idle for few
minutes, put crust Of bread or a slice of
raw potato into the kettle.
In cases of overeating or acute indi-
gestion a pinch Of salt dissolved on the
tongue viii often give relief. One young |
woman with valyular heart trouble warded |
off attacks by drinking hot salt water at
the first signs Of oppression.
In cases Of extreme exhaustion glass
Of hot salt water acts as quick restora-
tive. II one is subjected to nightmare
cup of salt water. taken before retiring,
will often ward off an attack.
Physicians often prolong life by injec.
lions Of saline solutions, and skilled hair
dressers recommend it's use to rub on the
scalp when it needs strengthening.
BY pouring little olive oil over soft
linen cloth aud gently rubbing over sur
face Of mahogany furniture the white COW
ering caused by dampness, also all dust
is removed and leaves the furniture as
clear as mirror, and saves having it
polished.
Bread keeps better in wooden box
than in a tin one,
Afew drops Of lemon iaiCe will make
cake efrosting very white,
little -four dredged over the top Of
a cake will keep the icing from running.
Alter washing lamps chimneys rub
them with dry salt, which will, give 3
brilliant polish to the glass.
70 cause the whites Of eggs to come to
a iroth quickly, pinch Of salt should be
added to the eggs while beating.
EARLY rising means practically whole
days work done before noon, a consider
alton that hot weather makes desirable.
To test the purity Of coffee, pour cold |,
water on il. II the water assumes q
brownish hue, the coffee undoubtedly
contains cbicory. Il