The Ordway new era., 1911-02-03
Womany Kisdom


Make your life a blessing to every
body about you.
To keep clothes from freezing to
the line put handful OF salt in the
last rinsing water.
After peling apples drop them into
cold water. This will prevent their
bee oming discolorcd.
To suit both those who like beef
steak rare and we'll done, cut it in
two and partly cook one piece before
putting the other one on.
Hang shoe brush up in front OF
the iron scraper, and try to get the
men in the habit OF using it to take
off the mud the scrapcr leaves.
Washing lamp chimncys by i'm
mcrsing them in water often makes
them brittle. A safer way to clean
them is to hold them for few min
utes over steaming kettle. Then
polish them briskly with soft cloth.
One OF the rewards of wide reading
is the broadened outlook it gives one
on life. The well-told experiences
of others seem to become a part OF
your own and hardly distinguishable
from them in the memory.
a small square of blanket folded
over and sewcd up. leaving ono end
open, makes an effective foot warmer
for any one troubled with cold feet,
and will add greatly to ones comfort
these cold nights. This is more con-
vcnicnt and satisfactory than the US
ual. hot water bottle.
1t seems as if almost anybody could
bake an apple so that it would be
nice eating; but here is way that is
extra good: With a narrow bladcd
knife take out the core. fill the hole
with sugar. set the apple into the
oven in dish that will hold water
and keep plenty of water around it.
until it is soft. and it will be fit for
anybody to eat, farmer or king.
Raw potatoes are better for frying
than cooked ones. Slice them very
thin into cold water; have a frying
pan well covered with boiling hot
lat; throw the potatoes in with all
the water that will adhere to them
it lightens and puffs them. Season,
and turn over them another frying
pan. Lift it often and turn the bot
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take off the covering pan and let
them brown.
An easy way to take steam bath:
Place a pail that is thrcc-fourths full
Of boiling water under a cane-seatcd
chair. Slip two hot bricks into the
water. 1t is we'll to have one or
two more heating for some one else
to drop into the water to keep up
the stcap. Sit down in the chair,
covering the body entirely with
blanket after removing all clothing
Let the blanket fall to the floor SO
that all the steam may bc kept in.
Sit in the chair as long as the steam
rises. then quickly wrap yourself in
a hot. dry blanket and instantly get
into bed and keep covered.
To cure beef tongues: Trim and
drop them into boiling water for
few minutes to plump" them, and
close the pores SO as to retain the
juices. When cool, rub them with
a mixture in the proportion of ono
pint OF salt. one tcasponful OF salt
peter, and quarter Of a pound OF
brown sugar to every twenty pounds
OF tongue. Pack them in an carthcn
vessel. not n tin or iron one; sprinkle
lightly with salt and put a weight on
top. Turn them every other day. put
ting the bottom ones on top and
packing them closely. Let them lie
about ten days, then hang them up.
and when dry put them into bags to
keep from the flies. If you do not
wish to use whole tongue at once,
it docs not hurt to cut one in two
From February Farm Journal.