The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-17
(From Mrs. Maud E. Cilley.)

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 To wash fine lace, soak 1t in suds in the sun for two or three days. Change the water and rub gently every day.
 To render children's clothing fire proof, dissolve a level tablespoonful of sal ammoniac in the last rinsing water.
 A palette knife is a great help in the kitchen for cleaning cake dough from the mixing bowl, and for many other uses.
 To clean and tighten cane seats, soak them we'll in hot water and use soap if it is needle. Then dry in the open air.
 If the cellar is dark, it is a good plan to have the bottom step painted white, 50 that it can be seen in the dim light.
 To get the best results from dried fruits, put to soak Tn warm water to which generous pinch of salt has been added
 A tasty dessert is made, of squash or pumpkin, prepared as for pie. It IS baked in a pudding dish, like g baked custard.
 A little nolasses put on the roasting place of sparrows when they become a nuisance over the windows will drive them to other quarters M
 A rag sponge can be bought at any paint shop, and is the best thing that can be used for keeping the bathtub and lavatory clean and dry
 To remove iron rust, wet the spots with salt and lemon juice, hold the material over the steam of a tea-ket- tie, and then put out in the sun.
 Individual tarts are much served nowadays with fruit or pumpkin flll- cream on top: with them serve cof- fee
 Never boil a silk handkerchief or rub soap on it. Wash in sude made of fine white soap, squeeze out, half dry in the sun and iron while damp.
 Mold can be kept from the top of preserves by putting a few drops of glycerine around the edge of the jar before screwing down the cover cap.
 When frying anything in deep fat have the flour sitter full of flour handy If the fat catches fire, sprin- kle. .thickly with flour and save dis- aster. .a
 hands and feet will obtain relief by putting inside their stockings and gloves a. small amount of very fine oatmeal.
 Marble 4washstands that have be- come discolored may be secured first with wet salt, and if this does not remove the stains. then with salt and uGIIlOn 1u1CG.
 For lemon cake filling, beat one egg, add a cupful of sugar and the juice and rind of one lemon. Cook in an enameIed pan until rather thick. When cool. spread.
 For fried squash, take the small green and yellow variety, peel and cut into half inch slices. Dip in eggs and flour or crumbs and fry in plenty or fat until brown.
 A paste of olive oil and salt smear ed on spots on furniture and allowed to remain few minutes and then rubbed off with a soft cloth will often remove the spots.
 The incest duster for dusting out a house is duck or goose wing, Which' will not scratch the furniture. as some dusters do.
 Grease On the kitchen floor can be softened by pouring kerosen cover it and letting 1t remain for fifteen or twenty minutes. Later scrub with hot soda water or borax and water. The coarse parts of lettuce and eel be placed in the stock kettle or chop ped up and put into the dinner soup. Use the celery leaves as well To serve with hot chocolate, delic- ious sandwiches may be made 7 of brown bread, with a. filling Of chop pea udISS dIfu pSCd1 OlCAQCd with a few drops of honey and lemon juice.
 If potatoes. are greased thoroughly before being put into the oven to bake, they will have a rich satiny look, and the skins will peel off as thin as tissue when they come to the table
 Good black lawn should not change color in washing if it is washed quick ly in studs made of white soap and warm water and then passed through clear lukewarrn rinsing water.
 When -a collar of q linen or batiste blouse becomes slightly sotled it may be cleaned with a. little naphtha or benzine in the same way as silk or satin. With this process, the collar will not need pressing. To bake fish without watery fla vor, do not place it on the bottom of the pan, but in an old plate, well grea sed. get this in the pan and pou enough hot water in the pan to reach A tube of white oil color is good for tnending china. The broken edges should be wiped quite dry, the color then applied and the parts pressed together. This takes several weeks to dry. but it will then hold perfect ly. UG dlIOWC4 UT OAeSoAA b4AabS 10 IN be turned from the mold Six eggs to a quart of milk is about the usual number. A cup custard, on the other hands needs but four eggs to a quart of milk
 To cook canned corn without burn ing, remove the paper from the can place the can in the teakett1e and boi1 for fifteen minutes. Open and pou1 the corn into a hot, huttered dish Season with salt, pepper and little cream.
 To salt almonds, first 5lanch and dry in the oven to a golden brown Take the white of an egg and Ueice as much flour and beat we'll. Stir ir the almonds and coat we'll drain and throw into salt, coating all over. Soft dry and bottle.
 When making chocolate frosting try stirring the grated chocolate in tht 4 milk and sugar syrup after taking il from the fire or just before putting it on the sake. The rich flavor O, chocolate is lost when it is allowed
 to boil.
 Place clothes in two piles when iron
 ing to avoid sorting them later. Those
 which need mendinE may be put into one pile, and those which are wholt
 on the other. When ironing 1t il | easv to notice a torn place or where