Evening journal., 1910-09-10
HOUSEHOLD NOTES
BY Maude E. ciIIsy.

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Flax cloth is much used this sea-
son for curtains and portiers for the
summer home.
To make a Spanish omelet add
sliced olives, mushrooms and pimen-
toes 10 a tomato sauce and put this I'm
the fold and around the plain ONE
let.
Currants and raspberries mixed In
the proportion of two cups of rasp-
berries and one Of currants and
sprinkled with sugar make a delicious
sauce.
To cut a loaf of hot brown bread
take piece of twine, place it around
the loaf. cross the ends and pull.
There will be a clean cut without
crumbs.
Add a piece of wax the size of
bean and a teaspoonful of powdered
borax to your starch while It is boil
I ing if It is desired to brighten the
polish.
A few drops of ammonia In water
will take the grease OFF of dishpans;
a little put into warm water for wash
/ ing paint will make it look like new.
When jelly is put into a kettle to
| boil. drop I'm a small agate marble. II /
/ VIII Keep III tOncAdli HlOAi0n III Nnt /
bottom of the kettle and prevent
burning
The long celluloid collar stiffeners
sold at notion counters are useful to
give body to the fioppy brims of chill
dren's hats, especially those made Of
linen.
When carrying oranges for a train
or a picnic luncheon, good way is
TO remove the skin and seeds at home.
and carry the sections wrapped in
waxed paper.
When steel knives and forks have
become tainted with fish they can be
rubbed with fresh orange or lemon
peel. and the faint will disappear en-
tirely
Beauty doctors are now reinforcing
the claim of vegetarians with
theory that meat hastens the ap-
proach of old age, and that fruit inn
pedes the aging process.
A moist blotter will be much more
effective than a dry one for removing
ink spots from fabrics. If repeatedly
applied. it Will frequently take out
the entire spot
Eggs are good baked. Cover the
! bottom of a pie plate with a good
: gravy, break the eggs and drop the
. whole into the gravy. Bake until the
whites are set
A deliioucs hard sauce is made with
!, the usual tablespoonful of butter,
= creamed with cupful Of sugar and
two tablespoonfuls of whipped cream
beaten in at the last.
To clean sOiled wallpaper. dip a
- whitewash brush into hot vinegar and
D brush all over it quickly. When the
paper is dry it will appear as fresh
= as when first hung
"a Learn to relax if you would be free
y. from Vines in your face and cheat
- old age Most of us keep ourselves
= at tension, mental and physical, too
= much of the time.
=. Mosquitoes in the house may be
~ killed by burning sulphur. but all
~ delicately-colored fabrics and mental
must first be removed from the room
where the sulphur is burned.
- Grilled sardines for supper are
- easily prepared by removing the sar-
VI dimes from the cans and heating them
- on a spider or the blazer of a chafine
~ dish. Serve hot on crackers.
To broil tomatoes cut them II
~ halves, lengthwise, put a small piece
Of butter, salt and pepper on the GU
side of each half, and broil under
gas flame until soft and Drowned.
Always keep the pieces of wall pa
20 per left over after papering room
os Roll them up and keep in a pape
u box. Then when the paper is tori
= or discolored. it can be easily pieced
- On wash-day when plenty of sud
~, are left over, plunge all the broom
into the hot soapy water, and shak
them about in it, II will clean them
"a make them more flexible, and greatl
81 prolong their lives
" When troubled With snails, pu
20 20 large pieces of cut raw potato unde
iN a board, raised at one end a feV
inches from the ground, and in FEY
days all the snails in the neighboI
~. hood will congregate there.