Middletown transcript., 1911-04-15
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

t When making aprons especially those t
} be used in doing houseWork, do not for
. get large pocket. Il will save many :
step in busting in picking up.
A crust of bread is best to clean sticky
bread or cake pan: Never use knife OF
anything that will scratch the surface and
invite more sticking thereafter.
| A clean cloth dipped in hot water and
then placed in saucer Of bran, will clean
white paint and not iniure il. The soft
bran acts like soap on the paint.
A small button of garlic in a quart OF
vinegar will give it mysteriously delici-
ous favor, and will also immensely i'm
prove salads or anything with which it is
used.
In putting down linolsum or oil cloth
have strips of moulding nailed on the
edges, next to the base board. This pre-
vents dusts from getting under and pre-
serves the edges.
A refreshing drink for afternoon card
parties is made of equal parts of ginger
ale and grape juice. Serve in straight,
thin glasses, with maraschino cherry
floating on top.
ArroWroot will be found more salts.
factory than corn starch for thickening
fruit sauces or juices to be used with sauces.
It does not change the liquid, nor does it
cloud it at all.
When the color of dress has faded
owing to stains from lemon or other acid
fruit juice, good idea is to touch the spots
with liquid ammonia, which will often
restore the color.
Roller shades may be satisfactorily
cleaned. Remove from the window, spread
in table, and rub them thoroughly with
heated corn meal, wiping them off with
cloth dipped in gasoline.
Never put white clothing away in
closet drawer, for it will very soon become
yellow.
To whiten clothes that have become
yellow steem them overnight in lukewarm
water and in the morning wash them in
clean soapsuds; then put them in the
boiler with some bits of soap and tea.
spoonful of powdered borax. Boil for
twenty minutes, rinse Immediately and
let them lie for another night in clean
cold water to which little boFax has
been added.
Have piece of round steak cut evenly,
make a dressing as for poultry; spread it
over the beef, roll it up and tie. Lay this
round bottom of kettle, in which few
pieces of fat pork have been tried out, turn
over until Drowned on all sides, add
little salt and boiling water. Cover closely
and few hours.
If your furniture has grown streaked
and dull, try rubbing it with flannel dip.
ped in equal parts of turpentine and coal
oil. It polishes quickly and much more
cheaply than the expensive polishes.
A good homemade furniture polish is
composed of linseed or salad oil and vine.
gar. Mix well with a stick until the oil
does not float on the surface. Apply with !
a flannel and rub off with linen.
When pairing any kind of fresh fruit, if
the hands are washed off Immediately
with cold water instead Of being washed |
in warm water and soap, there will be very
little danger of unsightly stains.
If powdered silver polish is mixed to |
thin paste with olive oil, well rubbed into |
every creVice of the silver and left for a |
few hours, the silver after being washed in |
the usual way will be bright and free from |
stain.
Roll slices Of calves tongue in thin
slice of bacon, hold together with silver
shewer, -four and cook to delicate brown.
Serve on chop dish with garnishings of
cress. Pass athick, creamy gravy in silver
sauce boat.
Mental buttons and ornaments may fre.
quently harmonic with some new gar.
ment. After the desired color has been
applied they should be SO vanished that
they will resemble enamel. The drying
process will require several days.
Save all bits OF fat for two purposes. The
best can be clarified for frying and the
rest makes up into soap. Remember in
making soap that teaspoonful Of salt add
ed to every ten pounds ofgrease improves
the quality of the soap.
Instead of cold deViled eggs, try these:
Stuff in usual way, put two halves together
and dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry
1T the last minute in boiling fat. Serve on
round silver pIatters with center of green
peas and border of thick tomato puree.
Hyour new shoes bid fair to rub a blister
IN your heels put piece of adhesive
plaster over the sensitive part. In few
lays it will be well, and the shoes will
have softened in the meanwhile.
Motor pillows are something new. They
should, of course, match in color and
material the robes and uphoIetering of the
,ar.
Long spurs and pale legs are a sign OF an
I'D turkey. The gobbler, while it has
ess white meat, is supposed to have
better taste than the old hen turkey.
When making fruit pies. damp the edge
With milk instead of water. Il holds better
md the Juice 10 nos so liable to run over.
Ifastain on silver is caused by medicine,
NIB with cloth dipped in suIphuric acid,
Eash in soap and water and polish as
lsual
II pair of shoes has become ssiffened
gith walking in the wet, they should first
70 washed with warm water and then
lavs oil well rubbed into them.
Frequently busting saves sweeping. AL
oom that is dusted often and thoroughly
gill not require such constant sweeping Is
ne that is dustsd carelessly and seldom.
For mildsw, salt water and sunshine
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