Evening journal., 1911-05-10
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HOUSEHOLD NOTES
ey Mauds E. ciIIsy.


Potatoes boiled in their skins make
nicer salad than those pared raw.
Cold baked potatoes likewise make
better fried potatoes than when cook
ed raw or boiled.
A fllet 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 chimneys which have be-
como 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 i'm threading the
machine needle, try holding a piece
of white cloth or paper on the op-
posite side of the needle eye, which
will then be so prominent that thread
ing will be easy.
In sewing trimmings on hat It is
hard for the home milliner 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 stop
pers, but this method will help to
loosen them. Pour a little olive oil
round the stopper with wooden
instrument The heat will cause the
oil to work round the stopper and it
should be easily removed
it is a difficult matter to cut away
the material under lace without sew
ering a wrong thread occasionally.
unless means Of overcoming the trou-
bic are employed. Use a piece Of
cardboard four inches long, rounded
at one end. and cut wide enough TO
slip along between the lace and ma
terial
The meat from the soup bone that
is often thrown away makes a nice
lunch dish Chop fine, season highly
with salt, pepper, a drop of tobasco
and a few drops of onion juice, put
into a deep mold and cover with
aspic. Set away 10 harden on the
ice. It 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 darned
and YOU will have no trouble in seeing
(which is which" when it comes to
putting them away.
If you have olives in the bottle that
you fear will spoil. seed and chop
them and add to the sauce used TO
cream chicken. If the ripe olives are
chosen the flavor is delicious. They
are also good IN a chicken scallop.
Mix the sauce with the chicken, put
I'm a baking dish. cover the top with
grated cheese and bake in quick
oven until the top Is brown
have for a long time used old
muslin nightgowns as covers for my
best dresses when they hang in the
closet They are easier to get off
and on than bags. and cover the gown
quite as we'll. Hang the dress first
on a coat or skirt hanger, and then
cover it with the nightgown, button
ing the latter to keep it from fall
ing.
Stenciled 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 stenc-
ling curtains. make the colors a wee
bit darker and brighter than you real
ly wish them to be. Then, when
they are hung you will gain exactly
the proper effect.
Olive oil or a good cottonseed oil
is an excellent medium for frying
foodstuffs: one great advantage is
that it 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 10 put any foodstuffs into
the frying medium until It gives of
a blue smoke.
When washing tan-colored clothes
OF stockings, or the khaki-colored
suits, put a 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 whole season. Add only q lit
tie to the water. Using the dye pre-
vents that washed-out look so com
mon to the khaki-colored suits after
laundering
To clean white ortrich plumes move
r0em about in a lather Of pure white