Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1911-10-07
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

When cane seats in the chairs sag, turn
them upside down and scrnb with hot
soapsuds, then rinse in hot water. When
dry they will be drawn tight again.
Insist upon getting sixty pounds of DO.
tasoes to bushel, exclusive Of the basket.
| Use the small-sized clothes pins; they
stay on better than the large ones.
Old oil cloth is useful for mats and pads
20 save the table. Cut in squares and use
it under hot dishes.
Old paint stains may be removed from
cloth by rubbing first with olive oil and
then with chloroform.
Add sngar to fruit when half cooked
ana save IN the amount Of sugar used,
a crochet hook is good article to keep
in the bathroom to draw out lint, hairs,
etc., from the paste pipes which stop the
flow of water.
little powdered pumice will remove
stains from under the finger nails. Apply
1t with an orange stick.
10 keep corns from troubling rub them
often with fine piece of sand paper.
To clean and renew the shine of leather
dust we'll, then rub with a mixture of
three parts benzine and one of sweet oil.
Dip a sperm candle in the hot starch
just before taking off the stove, or add
piece OF parafin as large as pea. Il
Keeps the starch from sticking.
A shoe case to hold half dozen pairs
OF shoes and slippers is almost an indis-
pensabe addition to the inside of the. clos.
ct door. The shoes are always in pairs
and can be louud in the dark.
Asa perspiration deodorant soda is ex.
cellent. 1t is used busted on like powder.
To prevent the sink pipe from clogging
use plenty of washing soda in hot water
once week.
Remember that fresh fish have eyes
bright, not glazed and sunken. The flesh
is firm, the odor good.
Look to see that your milk bottles hold
the standard measure. They are usually
a quarter ola cup short on quart. This
amounts to a good deal in the course Of a
years bills.
Does your baker carry bread uncovered
through the street and handle it with
uncovered hands? Or do you have it
wrapped in paper2 Pay cent more and
have clean bread.
Never buy cheap cotton toweling for
dish towels. Linen keeps white, wears
better, sbsorbs the water and are all
round better towels.
Have pair of scales, good reliable ones
In the kitchen, and keep strict watch on
the weights. A good merchant respects
such careful buyer and will see that she
is fairly treated.
When fruit juice refuses to ielI, add
tablespoonful or two of vinegar to the
juice, Wien fruit is high, save the peel.
lngs and cores and many an extra glass of
good jelly may be added to the store.
I An easy way to fill preserve jars is to
use gravy boat. The handle makes it
easy to dip and the spout is just right to
enter the top of the jar.
If fat or milk is spilled on a soft pine
floor, or in fact any floor, pour cold water
on it at once and the fat will harden and
save sinking into The floor and making a
spot.
Before using the Casserpole, put it into
pan of cold water and bring the water
slowly to the boiling point. This tempers
the dish and makes it bear strong heat
without cracking. Boil about five minu.
tes.
Never let dish water dry in the towels;
rinse fret in cold water then wash them
in hot soap. .suds and rinse again, and dry.
Towels cared for in this way will never
get gray.
Keep a cork on the letter file or spindle
on your desk. 1t may save an eye or two.
II poultrymen would worry less about
ventilation and pay more attention to
cleanliness there would be less losses.
Ventilation is needed, and if the houses
are built On the scratching shed order, all
will be supplied that is required. But if
the filth is allowed to accumulate in hen
house, all the ventilation that a scratch.
ing shed house can afford will not prevent
the entrance of disease.
The farm poultry utilize great deal of
the grass that grows in the spring and
after the hay harvest, and this is a money
making operation for the farmer. There.
fore the farmer must give his fowls free
range ii he is to get the greatest value out
Of them.
What most poultrymen need is more
and fewer dreams.
Keep the eggs in cool, dry place, free
from Objectionable odors, and reserve the
mail ones for home and market the best
md largest. Put clean dry hay in the
basket or box used for packing those for
market.
There is no better, cheaper, or more
lurable material for constructing the foun-
lation snd floors of poultry houses than
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,ay and does not offer harbor for yer.
min.
Scrape and clean two punches of satisfy
oots and soak in cold water for half hour.
Then boil until tender and drain with a
wooden spoon to a smooth paste free of
iber. Mosten with milk. Add two eggs
veil beaten and tablespoonful of butter.
'ut into buttared baking dish or small
Individual dishes, sprinkle with bread
rumbs and small piece OF butter and bake
,roWn on top.
Core out, but do not peal, some good,
ipe pears, slice them, crush them well in
bowl aud wiring the pulp through very
trong muslin. For every pound of this
Iulp add one.hali pound Of sugar, previ-
usly boiled to thick syrup. Cook it
cry slowly on the stove until reduced to
bout two-thirds its original quantity. Il
hould when ready, be of the consistency
honey. Pour in jars. let cool aud seal
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