Evening journal., 1911-01-04
HOUSEHOLD HOUSEHOLD NOTES NOTES
BY Msuds E. cilIsy.

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 II paper bag is placed
over the top.
Cut flowers will last we'll If a piece
of salt petre be added to the water
l in which they stand.
A 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 a
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 a teaspoonful of ginger
into the grease when hot.
A discolored beanpot may be re-
stored to its original whiteness by let
ting buttermilk stand in 1t for a day
or SO.
One way to remove tea, coffee and
! fruit stains from linen is TO rub but
ter into them and then soak I'm hot
water and soap.
To remove spots from light dress
es, apply little fuller's earth made
into a paste with spirit, and brush OF
when dry
Unbleached calico shrinks very
much when washing. When making
it up an extra inch a yard should b'
! allowed for this.
The European method of cookins
green peas is to boil them before
shelling, and then to season and re
heat them after shelling.
. When the finger nail is bruised
) soak in fee water, then hold the tingei
upright for half an hour. 1t will
prevent an ugly black spot.
SCOT should be saved by people VIII
have gardens, for, containing, as
does, four per cent, Of ammonium sui
phate, it is useful as fertilizer.
? To make butter scotch, mix fou
cupfuls of brown sugar, two cupful
of butter and three tablespoonfuls Q
water and boil until crisp in water.
o To prevent pictures from slippin
= and hanging uneven, hang them firs
! face TO the wall, and then twis
' around, making a cross In the wire
To clean bronze, wash the surfac
e with pulverized whiting, then rub wit
d paste of Dlumbago. and saffron an
n heat the articles before a slow fire.
u Brass or copper may be easil
= cleaned by rubbing with a wet, soap
rag, dipped in powdered bath bricl
/, Polish with a. soft dry cloth or news
n paper.
# quick way to mark linen, sheet
o ETC., is to write the name in penc
y then stitch over the line with a SEWN
e machine, using a coarse thread an
d long stitch.
o It is said that If a wound which
> is feared may occasion lockjaw {
a blood poisoning is held for sometim
d over burning wool, the danger will
n averted.
l. When boiling bacon or ham add
little vinegar and two or three Glove
. TO the water and leave the meat
until the water ie cold. The fiavC
will be delicious.
Cabbage water Is the cause of dis
greeable smells when it is not throw
away. To avoid the smell, some pc
pie put a piece of charcoal in with Il
cabbage when boiling it.
Cod liver oil stains on linen may
eradicated by soaking the marks wi
equal parts OF liquid ammonia al
hot water, mixed. Afterward wa
with soft water and soap.
Some people use the whites as w
as the yolks of eggs in making mayo
Go naise. Just before serving the ma
r onnaise the white Of the egg is whl
IA ped stiff and beaten into the dre'
ing.
Id For a sardine cocktail, a novel dii
ii prepare cocktail sauce in a glass 81
rounded by ice, as in an oyster coo
e- tail. Then cut sardines in pieC
a. about an inch long. Serve in I
. sauce.
ID A reliable cement for glass orr
s. ments is found in white Of egg, viii
joins so neatly that the breakage m
easily escape detection. This,
course, is suitable only for artic
not to be washed.
To shade lace mix five cents VOL