The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-11
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

A f1llet of beef requires a longer
time for roasting than any other cut
or kind of meat. Usually half an
hour to the pound Is none too long
a time. Pork comes next; the aver
age time allowed for a roast of pork
is twenty minutes to the pound.
If water be of little use when clean
ing lamp chiMmeys which, have bel
come very much blackened with smoke
the experiment should be tried of
mixing a little spirits of wine with the
water. This will remove the grease
which is contained in the lampblack
If for any reason, either poor eye-
sight or lack of light at machine, one
has difficulty in threading the ma
chine needle, try holding a piece of
white cloth or paper on the opposite
side of the needle eye, which will then
be SO prominent that threading will
be easy.
hard for the home milainer to fasten
the ends of the threads. but if you
will leave one end loose, instead of
drawing the knot close to the hat
and, after securing the trimming, tie
the two ends together, the effect will
be better.
Great difficulty is often experienced
when trying to remove glass shoppers,
but this method will help to loosen
them. Pour a little olive oil around
the stopper with wooden instru-
ment. The heat will cause the oil to
work round the stopper and it should
be easily removed.
The meat from the soup bone that
is often thrown away makes a nice
lunch dish. Chop fine, season high
ly with salt, pepper, a drop of la
basco and a few drops of onion juice,
| put into a deep mold and cover with
aspic. Set away to harden on the
| ice. 1t can be sliced and eaten with
sauce tartare.
| To avoid trouble in sorting stock
| ings after they come out of the wash,
| sew tapes to the top of each and tie
the pairs together when they are put
| in the clothesbasket. Keep them tied
| together when washed and darmed
and you will have no trouble in see
| ing (which is which when it comes
to putting them away.
| Stenc1led colors hung where the light
| Will shine through them, as at an open
door or window, always seem lighter
and fainter than they really are
| Therefore, when you are stenciling
curtains, make the colors a wee bit
darker and brighter than you really
wish them to be. Then, when they
proper effect.
| Olive oil or a good cottonseed oil
| is an excellent medium for frying
| food-stuffs; one great advantage is
| that 1T does not emit the unpleasant
| fumes of the natural fat. The same
general rules for frying with oil gov
| ern frying with fat, the principal one
being not to put any foodstuffs into
| the frying medium until it gives off
| a blue smoke.
| When washing tan-coIored clothes or
| stockings, or the khaki-colored suits,
put little brown dye in the rinsing
water and in the starch. One ten-cent
| package of dye, dissolved in boiling
water and then bottled, will last a
whole season. Add only little to
the water. Using the dye prevents
| that washed out look so common to
| the khaki-colored suits after launder-
| ing.
To clean white ostrich plumes move
| them about in a lather of pure white
| soap with little ammonia in it, US
ing about a quart Of water if the
| feathers are large. Then press them
| from stem to tip between the thumb
and finger and do the same in the same
amount of clear, hot water. Repeat
| in cold water slightly blued. Hang
| them to dry in draft and shake
| them occasionally.
! When the window shades have be-
come old, worn and cracked, they may
| be made to look like new and last for
many years. Lay the shades fiat on
| theN floor and paint them with any
| color of oil paint desired. This can
De purchased at the hardware store
| in small cans First paint one side
and when dry turn them over and
paint the other side. When they be-
come soiled they may be washed off.
While turpentine and Hnseed oil
| mixed together in equal quantities
make an excellent cleanser for floors.
| a better treatment when the floor is
dirty is to remove the dirt by means
of a rag wet with turpentine, after
ward applying the 1inseed oil. This
oil should be allowed to remain for a
week or more before the floor is pol
ished. Then the boards can be kept
in good condition by applying a mix
ture of turpentine and linseed OIL