White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-26
HINTS.
A Collection of Facts and Fancies
for the Ladies.

Alum meal is excellent for a dry
skin.
Lemon and salt will remove stains
from vanished wood.
Delicate colored silk hose should
be dried in a dark place.
'Borax is used for giving additional
gloss to starched fabrics.
Emery powder and oil made into
a paste is an excellent mixture to
clean steel.
Rolls of pieces may be kept neat
by slipping a band of elastic tape
over each roll.
Rub new shoes over with a slice
of raw potato and they will polish
as easily as old ones.
Do not tear carpet rags, as the
edges will be rough and will catch
dust. Instead, cut them.
Do not use ammonia to clean
black gowns; this is a common clean
er, but it makes woolens look rusty.
Large eyelets in embroidery will
keep their shape better if they are
not cut until embroidery is done.
A little mashed potato is a great
Improvement when making suet
crust for puddings of meat and fruit.
Use borax for %softening the water
for the bath. 1t is also a valuable
disinfectant and antiseptlc.
Nickel and silver may be kept
bright by rubbing them with a WOOL
en- cloth saturated with ammonia.
Never give sugar water to a baby.
1t often causes collie. Teach the ba-
by TO take u~nsweetened water in
stead.
A high luster is given to silver by
rubbing il with lemon and then with
alcohol and whiting mixed together.
For mending a tear in a garment
there is probably no better helper
than a piece of black, wornout stock
Ing.
To make a green mayonnaise for
a vegetable salad, add scalded chop
ped parsley TO an ordinary salad
dressing.
A tablespoonful of lemon juice to
three of olive oil makes a good fur
niture polish. to be applied with a
flannel.
The innovation of having slip
covers for furniture button instead
of tie is liked by those who have
adopted 1t.
If the sewing machine band is too
loose, drop a little caster oil in the
groove of the wheel and turn the
wheel very fast for a few moments.
When Dreaming butter for cake
making, try pouring it through an
ordinary potato masher and see how
much time and labor you can save.
For afternoon tea, toast seems to
be better liked than most anything
else. 1t Is thin and is cut into rouno
or diamond shaped pieces.
To secure the threads in machine
sewing so that they will not rip nor
need TO be tied. turn the goods
around and stitch backwards for
half an inch.
When making cream of onion
soup. use half a bay leaf, a bit OF
minced parsley and a bit of mace for
seasoning. 1t will be found exceed
ingly tasty.
When you sprinkle the clothes for
ironing. cover the basket with a big,
heavy blanket, and the clothes will
keep moist and not mould even in
the hottest weather.
Black goods that have grown gray
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.
Liver is delicious cooked as fol-
lows: 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.
A cork full of thumb tacks kept in
the work basket will be found inval-
liable when cutting out garments, as
the tacks hold the patterns securely
and do not wrinkle the goods.
An easy remedy for a skin of
large pores is to wear at night a
mask of cotton batting or chamois,
wet with distilled water. This has
a sure effect, If p%ersevered in.
For mending table linen, save
those long even threads which have
been drawn from linen in hemstitch-
ing. Wind them on an empty spool
and put aside until a tablecloth
needs mending.
If it is difficult to rid a frying pan
of smell of fish or onions, a little oat-
meal should be sprinkled over II and
the pan shaken owe the fire until
the oatmeal begins to scoreh.
Most housekeepers know the diff
iculty of making cream tomatoe
soup. To lessen danger of curdling,
add a pinch of soda to the scalding
milk and pour slowly into the hot
strained tomatoes.
If the wash goods are scorehed.
soak at once in lukewarm water.
Sprinkle with salt and lemon juice
and lay In the u and sqeeze on
fresh lemon juice as it dies. When