Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20

New iron pots should always be boiled
firSt with wood ashes and cold water and
then thoroughly scalded,
The pure white of chira may be pre-.
served if washing blue be added occasion.
ally to the water used for washing ii.
To give the stove a brilliant lustre a
teaspoonful of pulverized alum mixed
with stove polish gives a grand appear.
ance.
Sailed peanuts well Drowned in olive
oil with salt and ground very fine make
more tasty sandwiches than the plain
roasted ones.
When the rubber button on hose SUP.
porter gets worn and won't do IFS work
take one or more small rubber bands and
wind around and around. Then they
will be as good as new.
A young housewife without all the
utensils of an older housekeeper uses her
chafng dish, water pan and cover for
pudding dish. She has fitted the dish
with smaller earthen dish in which the
pudding is baked.
The brass nettings for the top of bowls,
are to be had in sizes to fit almost any
receptacle for flowers. Fancy brass hol-
aers found in the shops, to, for vases
OF white or green glass.
Make bag the required size out of
flannel, and fill with clean, dry, white
sand. Sew up the end of the bag and
inclose it in another sack made of soft
linen. Heat the bag in any convenient
way. You will find it will hold the heat
much longer than hot water bag.
Milk should not be covered tightly.
Use muslin or cheesecloth.
Worn out lace curtains, cut into squares,
make good dishcloths.
Every cellar should be thoroughly
whitewashed at least once year.
When the skin seems too dry, use less
soap and more good cold cream.
A dash of vinegar is an essential touch
to sharp salad dressing.
If q child's stomach is acid, lime water
should be added to the milk.
sponges are great germ collectors.
They should be frequently scalded.
Water should never be used to clean
gilt frames. Use dry, soft cloth.
Turpentine, naphtha, benzine, and
kerosene are all deadly poison to mouths.
Newspapers are better than anything
else for stufing out bows and sleeves.
To take out iodine stains sponge as
quickly as possible with pure alcohol.
Old hot water bags, split open and
cut into circular pieces, are good to make
mats for house plants.
Try serving macaronia with simple
cream sauce, as one would asparagus or
caulifower. It is delicious.
When next scrambling eggs, add just
q few slices of sweet green pepper, chipp-
ed fine, and cook in little butter.
Half lemon squeezed into q glass of
warm water and drunk before breakfast
is said to be good for the complexion.
Vegetables like beets and green corn
that contain sugar do not keep well and
should be eaten as soon as possible.
Young chickens for broiling may be
given pleasant and unusual favor by
rubbing them on the inside with powder.
ed ginger.
Lace and embroidery should be ironed
On the wrong side with several thick.
nesses of cloth or piece of flannel IN.
derneath.
Ice water is very bad for the stomach
and for the complexion. Cool water,
Kept in pitcher in the refrigerator, ia not
A teaspoonful OF salt and one of pull
7erized soap added to every two cupfuls
If starch will give fine glaze to stsrched
;lothes.
Always stretch out the body fully
when sleeping. When the limbs are
rossed or the body curled the rest is not
much benefit.
To make a refreshing bot weather
rink, mix grape juice with a quarter as
much lemon juice, adj water and sugar
o taste, and serve with cracked ice.
Iflinen on which ink is spilled prompt.
y soaked in sour milk and left for few
lours, then rinsed in cold water the
tains will be removed.
A relish made of one can of pimentoes,
mixed with finely chopped celery, is well
ked. It is covered with French dress.
ng and served on lettuce leaves.
A delicious extract of either oranges
r lemons may be had by pairing the
inds off as thin as paper. and putting
hem into bottle Of alcohol.
If clothes are sprinkled at night to be
roned she next day cover the clothes-
asket with big, heavy blanket, and it
Iill prevert mildeW or souring.
To make silk that has been washed
,ok like new, put teaspoon Of methy.
ated spirits to pint Of rinsing water
nd iron while damp.
In choosing poultry, see that the besk
nd claws of the fowl ara soft, not stiff
nd horny. The bones of young fowls
re soft and easily broken.
Use cold boiled sweet potato for bait.
lg rat or mouse traps and you viii End
much more effective than cheese OF
aeon rind in catching rats or mice.
Save your celery leaves; put ia the
ven to dry until crisp; powder fine; you
ill find them very nice to favor soups
nd dust on pork or beef when roased.
When white enamel vessel hss Be.
ome discOlorsd, simply ill the vessel
18th water and add a tsaspoonfuI oF
HORDE Of lime. Let il boil lev min.