The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-04
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

| from vanished wood. | BoraX is used for giving additional | gloss to starched fabrics. For sprinkling clothes, a handy ar | tlcle to use on wash day is a flower | sprinkler.
 | Emery powder and oil made into a paste is an excellent mixture to clean steel.
 | To bone collars, try using the wire | taste such as milliners use for stiff l fening bows.
 An easy way to stop windows from rattling is to use broken clothes pins as wedges.
 Rolls of pieces may be kept neat by slipping a band of elastic tape over each roll.
 Do not tear carpet rags, as the edges will be rough and will catch dust. In- stead cut them.
 Rub new shoes over with slice of raw potato, and they will polish as easily as old ones. Use borax for softening the water for the bath. It is also a valuable disinfectant and antiseptic. Nickel and silver may be kept bright by rubbing them with woolen cloth saturated with ammonia. Do not use ammonia to clean black gowns; this is a common cleanser, but
 it makes woolens look rusty. Large eyelets in embroidery will keep their shape better if they are
 not cut until the embroidery is done. A little mashed potato is a great improvement when making suet crust for puddings of meat and fruit. Never give sugar water to a baby.
 It often causes collie. Teach the baby
 to take unsweetened water instead. A high luster is given to silver by
 rubbing it with lemon and then with
 alcohol and whiting mixed together.
 The innovation of having slip covers for furniture button instead of tie is liked by those who have adopted it.
 For mending a tear in a garment there is probably no better helper
 than a piece of black, worn-out stock ing.
 A tablespoonful of lemon juice to
 three of olive oil makes a good fur
 niture polish, to be applied with a flannel
 Laces and embroideries should be
 ironed on the wrong side with several thicknesses of cloth or piece of flan-
 enl underneath.
 For afternoon tea, toast seems to be
 better liked than most anything else.
 It is thin and cut into round or dta-
 gonal shaped pieces When creaming butter for cake
 making try pouring it through an or
 dinary potato masher and see how
 much time and labor you can save.
 If the sewing machine band is too
 loose drop little castor oil in the
 groove of the wheel and turn the
 wheel very fast for few moments.
 To secure the threads in machine
 sewing so that they will not rip, nor
 need to be tied, turn the good around
 and stitch backward for half an inch.
 When making cream of onion soup
 use half a bay loaf, bit of minced parsley and a bit of mace for season ing. It will be found exceedingly tasty.
 Use thumb tacks for fastening the ironing sheet to the board. They will hold it more firmly than pins and are more easily removed than ordinary taeks.
 When you sprinkle the clothes for ironing cover the basket with a big heavy blanket and the clothes will keep i moist and not mould even in the hot test weather.
 Liver is delicious cooked as follows: Cut slashes in the liver and thread into them thin slices of bacon. Season with salt, pepper and thyme and bake for an hour or so.
 Delicately colored silk hose should be dried in a dark place.
 An easy remedy for a skin of large pores is to wear at night mask of cotton batting or of chamois wet with l distilled water. This has a sure eff feet, if persevered in.
 A cork full of thumb tacks keEt in l the work basket will be found invalu- 1 able when cutting out garments as ! the tacks hold the patterns securely and do not wrinkle the goods.
 Black goods that have grown gray l ish can often be freshened by wiping | off with alcohol. This is particularly | good for black hats and does not hurt | crepe if properly applied. If it is difficult to rid a frying pan | of the smell of fish or onions a little | naf ChO111H he Snrink1pd if | and the pan shaken over the fire un- til the oatmeal begins to scorch.
 For mending' table linen save those long even threads which have teen drawn from linen in hemstitchlng. Wind them on an empty spool and put | aside until tablecloth needs mend ing.
 Most housekeepers know the diffi- culty of making cream of tomato soup. To lessen danger of curdling add pinch of soda to the scalding milk and pour slowly into the hot strained to- mato.
 laundress says that one cannot be too particular to rinse the soap out of a garment in the washing for it is the soap that causes the blueing to appear here and there in the sar- ment.
 A little melted paraffin wax pour- ed round the corks of homemade pie kle jars will prevent air from enter ing between the cork and the glass and keep catsup and chutneys fresh and free from mould.
 Put a good sized lump of salt into 8 cup of vinegar and put it into a vessel that is discolored and let it stand for half day. Wash we'll with hot water and soap and the sediment will come off easily.
 In making a skirt every seam should be pressed twice. As soon as the seams are sewed they should be pressed They should be pressed again after being finished with the so-call- ed tailor stitching.
 An economical housewife has dis covered that if lemons are heated by being plunged into hot water before squeezing the amount of juice obtain ed is surprisingly increased The same is true of oranges.
 When making collars for thin waists you will find that they will fit much better if perfectly fitting collar of paper is sewed on the waist first and the strips of lace and insertion are pasted on it.
 If the wash goods are scorched soak at once in lukewarm water. Sprinkle with salt and lemon juice, lay in the sun and squeeze on fresh lemon juice as it dries. When the stain disappears wash thoroughly in cold water
 When sewing lace at the top of collars hold it against the wrong side 1f the collar so that the stitches will come on the right side, drawing the thread moderately tight. This will make the lace stand up neatly around he neck