The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-23
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

To prevent possible accidents from the chaflng dish, wiring a towel from water and lay just inside the rim of the tray and outside the feet of the dish. With this. any sudden flaming up can be readily extinguished.
 To keep a skirt placket from tear ing out at the bottom sew on a hook and eye at the extreme end of the placket fasten and then crush flat. This Is a simple, but very useful thing to know, as 1t saves many stitch.
 Bags to protect light dresses are a help to people who live in smoky, dusty cities. Make them of calico as long as the garment and run a tape in the top. Slip the gown on a ham per and put it in the bag, draw the tape and hang up.
 Otter in new homes plaster will be found on floors. Labor can be saved if before scrubbing the floor is rubbed stains at once wher it would take sew eral scrubbings of water to remove same.
 Many people are troubled by having the starch stick to the flatirons. Boil the starch we'll, then stir it minute with an ordinary paraff1n candle. Use the starch while it is still warm. The parafiln keeps the starch from stick ing.
 To whiten linen that has become yell low from lying away. wash and rub soap all over and without wringing put in the sun. when dry wet thoroughly again. One day in the sun will make it as white as when new. Rinse and hang up.
 Waste paper and other articles may be burned with safety in a gas grate if a double sheet of asbestos paper be first laid over the holes. This is lift ed out later and will do away with the necessity of cleaning the ashes from the grate.
 By placing a large carriage sponge in the bottom of an umbrella jar you will avoid striking the bottom of the jar, which is often broken in this way The sponge will also absorb the water from an umbrella. It may afterward be wrung out.
 Has anyone tried cooking sausages with baked beans instead of salt pork? They should be almost covered by the beans when put in the oven. The fat in them blends with the beans better than pork, and the sausages when cooked are dry and delicious.
 I find my silk petticoats wear out on the seams first. I take silk seam binding same shade of skirt and haste on right side over each seam, then stitch with silk thread on both sides of binding. and find it gives new life d E
 Fricasseed chicken, or chicken to be used as salad, is much better if cooked a day before it is to be served. Let the meat remain in the liquor until ready to use. The chicken will absorb much of the flavor of the juice and will be that much tastier.
 Either skim or sour milk will make with soft cloth in milk and water, sponging each off carefully inside and out, and pouring the remainder of your basin into the ground of the tub. The plant grows and thrives on it.
 Do not waste time and strength in out closets and spreading about ill-smelling stuff said to be death to moths. Instead saturate an old sheet with formaldehyde and hang it in the closet, first stopping up both cracks and keyhole, and leave for 24 hours.
 Roquefort cheese gives a peculiar and agreeable tang to a lettuce salad. Make rich French dressing, adding enough grated Roquefort to make the dressing and leaves well. seasoning with a little red pepper. Serve with toasted crackers.
 In desperation because a boiled icing would keep running off the cake, I put the cake in a very hot oven. A Lnln crust tluC6u SuSnCIy pEOWu udTu- ened over it. I put on another layer of icing and replacing the cake in the oven, watched it carefully that 1t should not again brown.
 When a new house-dress is made it is a good plan to make an apron of the same material You will thus appear heater than when wearing an apron of another color, and another advantage is that it will fade with the dress and can be used in mending the dress when the latter commences to wear out
 The next time you have cheese with your salad try the effect of cutting tiny rounds of red pepper about a quarter of an inch thick and filling the centre with cream cheese. These rings should be prepared several hours before using and be kept on the ice until very cold. Pass as ordinary cheese with crackers
 Instead of bothering with sticky fly paper, try this method of getting rid of flies. Put two teaspoonfuls of for in a pint of water, pour into saucers and set on table. Flies are attracted and drink the water.