Middletown transcript., 1910-01-22
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

, ing purposes it will be found excellent 4
scruhbing the kitchen floor. Go over q
fdoor with the broom and hot suds, the
mop with clear water. Never use aoo
broom for this purpose.
Try adding a leaf of spinach TO ii
water in which peas are boiled il 20
wish them to keep good color.
| II turkey or chicken is rubbed insid
and out with lemon it will make the mes
white, juicy and tender.
Few people know how to boil water
Fill the teakettle with freshly draw
water and bring quickly to boil. Thel
use Immediately. By letting is stand ant
steam tue good water is eyaporated, leay
ing she lime, iron and drsgs in the kettle
This would make some people i'll, and il
worse than no water at all.
Do rot put salt in the water in whicE
peas are cooked, as it causes she outel
skin 20 crack. Leave lid off saucepan.
A pinch OF soda added TO the boifina
water in which cabbage or cauli1ower Il
cooked improves the flavor of the vega.
table.
10 clean white beaver hat, rrush out
all she dust. Lay it down upon a clean
cloth and work into it with brush and
your fingers all the magnesia it will bold
block msgnesia and OF the best quality.
This done, put the hat into box, cover
and leave it alone for three DAYS. Take
the hat out of doors and brush out the
powder. The dirt will go with it. Brush
then With soft, perfectly clean hal brush.
To make the celery slightly aud crisp
cut white tender stalks into two-inch
lengths and score the pieces lengthwise
about half an inch from each end until
both ends are fringed Drop the pieces
into a pan of ice water in which q thick
slice of lemon is soaking and let il stand
an hour before serving. Then dry thor.
oughly.
When suffering from inflammatory
rheumatism, avoid acids OF all kinds, take
little salts every morning and use winter.
green. II nothing else Will help, winter.
green oil will. Bathe the parts with hot
water and rub wintergreen in thoroughly
md take the pure wintergreen oil, three
u four drops OH sngar, internally.
Apply oil of winlergrepn freely 20
eed wart to remove it. Put it on often
md once week paint it with tincture of |
odine. This is considered very effective /
nd being harmless cannot cause burn, |
s is 30 often the case with all acid. PouI.
ices Of seeded raisins have been known
utterly destroy the growth.
To remove rust from nickel plate, cover
he stains with oil or grease, sweet oil
Ill do. for two or three days; then re-
lose tie rnst With ammonia. II this
oes not prove successful try very dilute
ydrochioric acid. When dry polish Rish
'ipoli or whitening
IL one lie tired and nervous aud cannot
eep. glass Of milk, as hot as eau be
runk, should be taken. This is ouietinR
nd Hili send Que into refreshing sleep.
half a teaspoonful baking soda, one.
Ill seaspoonfnl lemon juice, one tea.
'oonful sugar in halt glass water is
'od for sick headache. Also, the iuics {
lemon nsugared-in glass Of /
atsr often relieves sick headache. Ii
A weak solution Of chloride Of ziuc will {
move ink spots effectually.
There is nothing more difficult 10 ve.
oye than coffee or tea stains from col.
ed fabrics. You may be sure that II
comes out the color of the garment will
changed. Gasoline removes greasy,
lied marke, but will have little effect on
al stain. Alcohol might be effective OF
her.
Americans, 1t is rule, do not know how I
eat pineapples. They should never ]
sliced. That treatment releases the
ice from the pulp and leaves the meat {
= aud woody and tasteiess. In Cuba, r
here they know how to eat the fruit,
ey never peel pineapple. They take 7
ipe frnit and cut off the top aud bottom; I
en- they split the fruit lengthwise, then
ar;er I and split the quarters. This +
res eight slicee, which are then eaten \
'm the hand as one would eat water.
'lon. Following this method you get y
the juice aud can make a tidy Job OF n
and you vii find 1t much better than
Iliced.
To wash white WOODEN sweater use
IeSarn water and good white SOAP, "
nee in water Of the same temperature,
while The article is drying pull into b,
lps. Change of temperature in The
SsN6 W@@SA 80 ACcPO1nAulC tOE tLl6 HklfI0ksA Il IL
of most WOODEN goods.
auff hangers are some thing like the E
Il hangers and may be bought in the
Ups. They must be covered in the W
ne way that was used with cuat hangers
are very useful as well as ornamental, "
HE large mnffs now carried are much
of place without some such conyen- r.
ce.
lilcinti should never b washed with j.
p. When dirty it should be gone over
h water to which little starch (made %
b boiiing wateF) has been added. When
o.icictli is getting the worse for wear
li,lle glue in quart Of boiling water
rub al over the surface. This must :.
be walked upon until quite dry. - -
here are several Mays in which every n,
'p of an old sheet may be- utilized il =
will give tile suhject thought. OF Il
re there are very lew Lousekeepers | hs
oraGt Of the fact that if the sides are /.