The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-19
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

When washing glassware%slip it in- to the hot water sidewise to avoid breaking.
 If new silk shirt is pressed with a hot iron before wearing it will pre- vent it from cracking.
 Clear black coffee diluted with wa ter and containing little ammonia will clean and restore black clothes.
 Hot cinders and the like can quick ly be removed by sweeping the eye with a small lgoose feather dipped in oil
 Remove xgrass stains with cream of tartar and water or alcohol; the lat ter never stains the most deaicate col or. 1ne vi2nsndH
 To lessen the codor of wet paint, put bowls of hot water in the rooms. The water has the effect of absorbing the paint odors.
 Feathers that have grown grimy may be given a bath in alcohol, after which they should be shaken over heat or in the hot sun until dry.
 Burns are best treated with olive oil on antiseptic cotton applied as hot as it can be borne. This is also the best treatment for a disco1ored eye. with small goose feather dipped in the water bottle and half fill with wa ter. Let stand half an hour. then will be like new.
 Sometime when at loss for sand wich filling, chop pecan nuts with celery very fine, mix with mayonnaise dressing and spread between thinly sliced white bread.
 Ordinary white chalk such as is used in the school room for black board work is invaluable as a house hold remedy for removing spots from white clothes and shoes.
 Wine stains on table linen are re- moved by sprinkling them with salt, moistening with hot water and then pour boiling water through sthe stain until it disappears.
 As a garniture to the commonplace scrambled eggs, add half a dozen mushrooms, cut into bits and cook ed in teaspoonful of butter with half a green pepper, minced fine.
 Green. blue, lavender, aniline reds, purple and pink should be soaked in Black, gray and dark blue should soak in strong salted water.
 When egg yolks are unbroken, they can be kept some little time. Drop them carefully into cup and slowly pour water on them until they are a little more than covered.
 To polish stoves use boiled iinseed oil on the steel parts, rubbing we'll with a wooden cloth. Clean nickel with whiting and ammonia, and use good stove polisih for the top.
 If you have had the misfortune to burn a kettle, it may be made smooth and clean by filling it with ashes and water leaving it for an hour or so, then washing with clear water.
 When the pie is ready for the ov- put at once into a hot oven and it will bake a rich, brown glossy surface and the crust will be much fiakier.
 When half a grape fruit or melon is left from meal, place it cut side down on china or agate plate, so ho m a "a .fY Y-yrif will keep as though it had not been cut.
 Always dry white silk gloves or | in the dark if one would | not have them turn yellow. On this l account many wash these articles ct | night so they may dry before day light.
 A couple of tablespoonfuls of borax | in the water required for washing l about five pairs of 1ight-co1ored hose | the leather that they may have on | them.
 Save all the empty spools. and when any dyeing is done in the drop the spools into the fluid for few minutes and they will make fine playthings for the children on Q rainy day.
 A new ice-cream freezer should be | painted both inside and out before being used. Such treatment will keep the nOOpS rom TuSIInS ana make the freezer last a great deal longer as a 
 A little salt rubbed on the cups will take off tea stains. Use salt and | water to clean willow furniture. Ap- ply with a brush and rub dry. A smalll quantity of salt put into the will make it stick better.
 A fruit ice is easily made by rub bing quart of fruit through a col ander and adding a cupful of water IS sweeet as honey. Mix with this the unbeaten whites of three fresh ao a md fraaza stirriranc xt,x, nil |