Evening journal., 1912-09-09
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Eau de cologne will remove can
die grease.
Cabbage should always be boiled
in two waters.
Tar stains can be taken out with
oil of turpentine.
Overdone food is almost worse than
underdone.
To keep celery and lettuce fresh,
stand the roots in cold water
Use the ironing fire for preparing
stock for soups or baking puddings.
Put castors on your woodbox II you
would have it handy to move about
One secret of good tea or coffee
is to make il with water freshly
boiled.
Japanese lanterns can be used year
after year II they are put away care
fully.
Change dish water often-it is better
for the hands and for the dishes
When plain white lawn waists are
worn around the neck and sleeves,
they can often be made into corset
covers
If your gloves get wet. dry them
in a cool place and rub a little olive
oil into the kid before puttins them
on again
To darn a rent in dark material.
ravel out and use some Of the thread
of II instead of regular darning and
sewing cotton.
II you keep your clean kitchen
utensils in cupboards and drawers,
you will find them always ready for
immediate use.
/ When the cake i'm the oven is ready
for a final browning, throw hand
/ ful Of chips on the fire or tuck in a
newspaper
IF you wish TO give a brass article
polish like new. heat them first
then rub on q paste of hot salt and
lemon juice. RUB clear.
Clean milk strainers by rubbing a
cake of soap over the WIRE then pour
boiling water through the strainer
and rinse we'll
The best pieces of meat for roast
ing are the ribs, surloin and pin
bone.
Put a piece of ice in the room in
which a patient with a high fever is
! lying; it will prove a boon to the suf-
ferer
bread will cut thinner and in more
even slices If you turn the loaf up.
sidedown.
Eucalyptus oil will remove grease
including machine oil, from any fabric
without injury.
When the enamel on gas stoves
becomes discolored. scour il with Z
damp flannel dipped in garden soil
When making desserts, allow on
heaping tablespoonful Of granulateC
sugar to each egg and half pint o
milk.
To remove the unpleasant odo
from the hands after peeling onions
rub them with salt and wash in colt
water
White of an egg will clean A,
specks from gilt frames or mouldings
Apply the white of egg with a camell
hair brush.
A very good way to singe chick
ems is TO told them over a saucer o
burning alcohol. There is no 500
left then on the flesh.
One large tablespoonful of whit
flour and one large tablespoonful q
butter, blended. will thicken half
pint Of milk or water sauces.
Sweet oil will remove hot wate
! marks from Jauauese traps. Rub
well until the marks diappear, the
polish the tray with -four and sol
, cloth.
Paint can be removed from cloth
ing by saturating the spots two o
three times with equal parts of am
monia and turpentine. then wash ou
in soap suds.
Place new gloves between the fold
, of a damp towel for an hour befor
being worn. They are much easie
, to put on the damp makes the XII
more pliable.
; Cabbage should never be boilde
= longer than thirty minutes for whe
= the time is heightened, the leave
) lose their tender crispness and be
come soft and dark colored.
/. Perch brook trout, catfish and a
5 small fish are best fried. Thes
q fish should swim twice, once in wi
ter and once in hot fat The "a
5 should be boiling hot before putin
. the fish in.