Evening journal., 1911-01-12
HOUSEHOLD NOTES
ev Maude 6. clIIsY.

To keep linoleum bright, use sweet
milk and water TO wash It.
To brighten oil lamp burners, boil
for fifteen minutes in buttermilk.
Iced water in a pitcher will keep
much longer If a paper bag is placed
over the top.
Cut flowers will last we'll If a piece
of salt petre be added 10 the water
in which they stand.
piece of mosquito wire is an ex-
cellent thing to rub a fat iron over
to take off the rust.
Charcoal in pieces the size of pea,
or burnt cork, once a week Is good
for all poultry
Outside leaves of lettuce, if boiled,
chopped. drained and served on toast
like spinach are delicious.
To save grease when frying dough
nuts, put half teaspoonful Of ginger
into the grease when hot.
discolored beanpot may be re-
stored to its original whiteness by
letting buttermilk stand in it for day
or so.
One way TO remove tea, coffee and
fruit stains from linen is 10 rub butter
into them and then soak in hot water
and soap.
To remove spots from light dress
es, apply a little fullers earth made
into a paste with spirit, and brush off
when dry
Unbleached calico shinks very much
when washing. When making it up
an extra inch a yard should be allow
ed for this.
The European method of cooking
green peas is to boil them before shell
ling, and then to season and reheat
them after shelling.
When the finger nail is bruised,
soak in ice water, then hold the finger
Upright for half an hour. It Will pre-
vent an ugly black spot.
SCOT should be saved by people who
have gardens, for, containing, as II
does, four per cent. of ammonium sui
phate, it is useful as a fertilizer
To make butter scotch, mix four
cupfuls of brown sugar, two cupfuls
of butter and three tablespoonfuls OF
water and boil until crisp in water
To prevent pictures from slipping
and hanging uneven, hang them hrst
face to the wall. and then twist
around, making a cross in the wire.
To clean bronze, wash the surface
with pulverized whiting, then rub with
paste Of plumbago and saffron and
heat the. articles before a slow fire
Brass Or copper may be easily
cleaned by rubbing with a wet, soapy
rag. dipped in powdered bath brick
Polish with a soft dry cloth or news
paper.
A quick way to mark linen, sheets
etc. is to write the name in pencil
then stitch over the line with sewing
machine, using a coarse thread anc
long stitch
It is said that if a wound which il
is feared may occasion lockjaw ol
blood poisoning is held for sometime
over burning wool, the danger will be
averted.
When boiling bacon or ham add Z
little vinegar and two or three cloves
TO the water and leave the meat il
until the water is cold. The tayol
will be delicious.
Cabbage water is the cause of disa
greeable smells when it is not throw
away. To avoid the smell, some peo
pie put a piece of charcoal in viii
the cabbage when boiling 1t.
Cod liver oil stains on linen may b.
eradicated by soaking the marks witt
equal parts of liquid ammonia and no
water mixed. Afterward wash viii
soft water and soap.
Some people use the whites as wei
as the yolks of eggs in making mayon
naise Just before serving the mayon
naise the white of an egg is whippel
stiff and beaten into the dressing.
For a sardine cocktail, a novel dish
prepare cocktail sauce in a glass sur
rounded by ice. as in an oyster cock
tail. Then cut sardines in piece
about an inch long. Serve in tn
sauce.
A reliable cement for glass orna
ments is found in white Of egg, whic
Joins so neatly that the breakage ma
easily escape detection. This, c
course, is suitable only for article
not to be washed.
To shade lace mix five cents wort
of yellow ochre with an equal quantit
of rice powder and put into a box. Pu
I'm the lace and shake it up. Brus
off all the powder possible. It wi
be a fast color.