The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-21
HOUSEHOLD. NOTES.

 HOUSEHOLD NOTES. Buttermilk is the best possible thing to clean linoleum and oilcloth. For a bee sting, simply drop chloro- form on the stung place and it will en- tirely kill the poison. Keep in your work-basket several large-size safety pins. and use them to string loose buttons, hooks. eyes, etc.
 To sweep carpets and floors with out raising dust, sprinkle moist tea leaves on them and then sweep with a light brush or broom. A heavy broom wears the carpets.
 Apply as quickly as possible piece of ice-holding it on the injured part for several moments and no blister will appear.
 When making baked custard, if the milk is warmed before adding the eggs no water will settle in the bottom or the baking dish.
 Eyeglasses may be made bright and clear by spraying them with alcohol from an atomizer and then rubb1ng with soft tissue paper
 A brass-headed tack driven into each of the lower corners of picture frames preveit pictures from leaving marks on the wall.
 The best method of cleaning white kid and white sheepskin Things of boots is to sponge with benzine.
 A solution of one teaspoonful of per- oxide into teacup of water makes sanitary wash to use in the mouth every morning and evening.
 When sweeping Turkey. Administer or any thick piled carpet. always brush the way of the pile, and 1t will look fresh and bright for years.
 If you are distressed to find that some careless person has scratched the new white paint with match try rubbing the darkened surface with part of a cut lemon.
 You can remove grease spots from wallpaper with plotting paper and a hot fiatiron. Put the plotting paper over the stain and press it with the hot iron.
 It is good plan to wipe out all greasy utensils with a piece of soft pa- per, before washing. This simplif1es the washing process. Destroy the pa per immediately.
 r4To remove marks and scratches on dull finished furniture steam it under wet newspapers and a hot hatfron. This must be done only if the furni- ture has a dull finish.
 Don't dampen silk when pressing; a moderately hot iron with cloth or pa- per, between the garment and the iron, when the pressing is done on the right side, should be used.
 A method by which rooms may be made mouseproof is to have the walls while still in the rough lined with fine meshed wire mosquito netting. after which the lumber is put on.
 When putting away the summer suits of boys and men, be sure that there are no matches left in the pock- cts. Fires in attics often start from mice nibbling matches in clothes.
 In dusting a room, do not fail to dust the brass or iron bed well. Re- member that the head and foot pieces under the springs should be as free from dust as the parts above.
 A bottle containing lime water and linseed oil. equal parts, is always kept in my cookroom, as if it is applied directly after a burn. it will keep the skin from blistering. and allay all pain.
 It is wise. plan to shrink woolen or mohair braid before putting it on ones skirt. Then if the skirt is wet, there is no danger of the braid shrink ing the garment in an unsightly man ner.
 Make a practice of emptying the dishpan, as we'll as the tea or coffee pot, into a strainer rather than into the sink. Then the contents of the strainer may be easily emptied into the refuse pail.
 Keep a skewer or orangewood stick at hand near the kitchen sink. When washing a cooking utensil that is scanned or grooved, run the skewer around to take out foodstuffs in the crevices.
 When broiling a slice of ham re- gently rubbed brown sugar on it be- fore broiled it, and found the ham when cooked had the same delicious flavor as baked ham prepared the same way.
 Before leaving the summer cottage paint the stove, the datirons and the window and door screens with boiled linseed oil. putting on generous coat. Next year they will show no sign of rust.
 A turquoise which has lost its blue color and becomes green may be re- stored by being soaked in pure alcohol for two weeks and dried carefully for week. If the color changes again, repeat.
 A bag made of burlap is very use full in the house where homemade ice cream is served often. Crack the ice in the bag and mix the ice with a third it's bulk of salt before putting in the freezer.
 Do not confine the use of the darn ing egg to stockings When it is nec- essary to repair a rent in a sleeve slip the egg under the torn place. The work will then be done more expedf- tiously and satisfactorily. E To draw threads easily in articles for hemstitching, first soap the goods where threads are to be drawn Make father and apply with a shaving brush. When the linen is dry the threads will pull out easily.
 Don't stitch skirt seams all in one direction; the bias side should be held under the straight edge, which means that the seams of half the skirt should be stitched from top to bottom and the other half from bottom to top.
 A beautiful quilt for the mahogany bed is made in the rose design, full blown roses with green leaves and buds being appliqued on large blocks e3 linen. These blocks are put to- gether with bands of one of the rose shades.