Middletown transcript., 1910-11-05
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

chafng dish, wiring 3 towel from water
and lay just inside the rim Of she tray
and outside the foot Of she dish. With
this. any sudden flaming up csn be readily
extinguished.
To keep q skirt placket from tearing
ont at the bottom sew on hook as ths
extreme end Of the placket, iasten and
then crush fiat. This is simple, but
very useful thing to know, and Is
saves many stitch.
Bags to protect light dresses are help
to people who live in smoky, dusty cities.
Make them Of calico as long as the gar.
ment and run . tape in the top, Slip the
gown on hamper and put in the bag,
draw she tape and hang up.
Often in new homes plaster will be
found on floors. Labor can be saved it
before acrubbing the hoor 10 rubbed over
with vinegar. This will remove stains
at once where il would take several scrub.
bings of water to remove same.
Many people are troubled by having
the starch stick to the f1atirons. Boil the
starch we'll, then stir it minute with aE1
ordinary parafin candle. Use the starch
while it 10 still warm. The parafin keeps
the starch from sticking,
To whiten linen that has become yellow
from lying away, wash and rub soap all
over and without wriDging 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.
BY placing alargs carriage sponge in
the bottom ofan umbrella jar you will
avoid striking - bottom of the jar.
which is often broken IN this way. The
sponge wiIEalso absosb the water from
an umbrella. Itmay afterwards be wTung
out.
Has anyonetried 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.
find my silk petticoats wear out on
the seams fret. I take silk seam-binding
same shade of skirt and baste on right
side over each seam, then stitch with silk
thread on both sides of binding, and find
il gives new life to worn-out petticoat.
Fricasseed chicken, or chicken to be
used as salad, is much better If cooked
day before il is to be served. Let She
meat remain in the liquor until ready for
use. The chicken will absorb much Of
the flavor of the juice and will be that
much tastier.
Top put new braid on skirt where hem
/ is stitched in, rip out hem for about three
inches and insert 9 two-inch piece OF
pasteboard little wider than braid; by
slipping this along the new braid i5 easily
sewed on without catching outer part of
skirt.
Either skim or sour milk Twill make
rubber plants grow. Wash the leaves
with soft cloth in milk and water, spong.'
ing 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 clearing
out closets and spreading ont ill.smelling
stuff said to be death to moths. Instead
sasurate an old sheet with formaldehyde
and hang il in the closet, first stopping
up both cracks and keyhole, and leave for
"a hours.
Roquefort cheese gives peculiar and
agreeable tang to the lettuce salad. Make
rich French dressing adding enough
grated roquetord TO make the mixtnre
thick and creamy. Toss the dressing
and leaves well, seasoning with little
red pepper. Serve with toasted crackers.
In desperation because q boiled icing
would keep running off the cake, put
the cake in very hot oven. A thin
crust tinted slightly brown hardened
over it. put on another layer OF icing
and replacing the cake in the oven,
watched it carefully that it should not
again brown,
When new house.dress is made It is
a good plan to make an apron Of the same
material. You will thus appear neater
than when wearing an apron Of another
color, and another advantage is that It
will fade with she dress and can be used
for 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
ronnds of red peper about quarter OF
an inch thick and filing the centre with
cream cheese. These rings should be
prerared several hours before using and
be kept on the ice until very cold. Pass
an ordinary cheese with crackers.
Instead of bothering with sticky fly.
paper try this method Of getting rid Of
flies. Put two teaspoonful of formalde.
hyde in pint of water. pourinto saucerp
and set on table. Flies are attracted and
drink the water. Some die in the water,
others get as far as the table, and they
may be easily swept up and burned.
While damp busting Crex floor cover
ing recently, discovered that . soft
scrubbing brush, dampened but mot wet
dEd:the work better and quicker than
cloth. Rob across each breadth, Finsing
the brush often, and you will find the
bristIes will penetrate into ell she crevices
where cloth will not, and the result
will be gratifying.
In starching linens and similar goods
too light for mourning starch and too !
dark for the white put in the boilinsz
starch large Nee Of tissue paper
shade TO mat nearly as possible
dress materid his win diaaolRa
when the starch ID strained noDf