The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-05-14

Serve in sherbet glasses with cut up
dates. ntop.
Left over. hardeboiled. eggs can be
sliced covered with a white sauce and
putin a pie dish andtcovered with cold
mashed potatoes to which are added
extra butter, cream, salt, pepper and
paprika. Brush the-top of3the potatoes
with yolk of egg andebake in a quick
oven.
Bread keeps better in wooden box
than in one of tin.
A leak can be temporarily stopped
with a mixture of yellow soap, whiting
and a very little water.
The resistance of glass jars that re-
fuse to open can be overcome by1setting
them top downward in an inch or two
of hot water.
Caulihower should be turned head
lsdownwards in cooking. so that any
scum may not, by any chance. settle
upon the white portions
A tin cup filled with good vinegar
and placed on the back Of the stove is
an excellent means to prevent the smell
Of cooking getting over the house.
The disagreeable smell which is US
ually caused by the cooking of greens
may be prevented if a small piece of
bread is thrown into the water while
boiling.
To remove dried up glue from wood
work rub the woodwork with a cloth
dipped in vinegar. Vinegar is also
much better for dissolving glue than
ordinary water.
In preparing bed for an invalid,
have two sets of bedclothing, so that
one set may be aired while the other
is in use. Wool blankets are prefer
able to cotton ones.
To clean plaster of paris ornaments
| cover them with a thick coating OF
i starch dissolved in little water and al
low this to become dry. Then it may
be brushed off and the dirt with it.
A few drops of oil OF sandalwool
sold by druggists, dropped on a hot
shovel. will be found to diffuse a most
agreeable, balsamic perfume in sick
rooms or confined rooms that have mot
been we'll aired
To stop bleeding of the nose, cut
some blotting or letter paper into {
piece an inch square. roll it up about
the size of lead pencil and put into
the nostril The blood will soon coag-
ulate and cease to flow.
The picknicker and light house
keeper can buy condensed coffee by the
which only needs the addition Of cuI
OF boiling water to make deliciou:
cup of coffee at very moderate cost
A brilliant polish may be given tt
brass door fixtures, ornaments, etc, By
washing them in a mixture of alum
and I've Make a solution by boiling
an ounce of alum in a pint of I've anC
wash the articles in it while it is still
warm.
Mex flannel should be put nto clean
cold water and kept there for day o
so, changing the water frequently. Thel
wash the flannel we'll in warm water
using a little soap to remove the oil
Flannel thus treated will not harden o
shrink.
A dry loaf Of bread. milk-soaked
can be rebaked and Will be found a
good as new. Bread on which fast
boiling milk is poured makes a goo
supper for dyspeptics. A porpou
bread pan. set in an inch of water
keeps the bread fresh a long time
viously used. If this is not CAREFUL!
lather of luke warm soapsuds ant
dip the shawl into It,, rubbing ant
squeezing gently with the hands. Ever
the rinsing water should be softenet
with a little soap and particularly il
it essential that the water, wheneve
it is changed. should be exactly of TIN
same temperature as the water pre-
To clean a Shetland wool shawl, max
/ observed, the wool is almost sure t
shrink.
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