The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-03
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

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 Put little ammonia in the warm water used to wash paint.
 Save the tea leaves to sprinkle on the carpet when sweeping.
 Lemon juice can be used instead of vinegar in salad dressing.
 A vacuum cleaner will catch more n1es than a 'sWatter'.' Try it.
 Succotash can be made as well with string beans as with Imas.
 Never throw. away cold coffee: you can make it into coffee gelatine.
 A piece of cheese grated over a sim pie salad is a. great improvement. Hairbrushes are best washed in cold water with plenty of ammonia in it. Flour the cake pan after you have greaSed it to keep the cake from stick ing.
 Red entrants added to the raspber- Ties give raspberry jam a delicious fla vor,
 When you fnd mold on bread or cake. scald and dry out the box you keep them in.
 Equal parts of olive oil and tur- pentine make an excellent polish for mahogany furniture. When cucUmbers have lost their crispness they may be fried exactly as you do eggplant.
 Dish towels should be washed and scalded every day and dried in the sun to keep them sweet In Starching colored clothes, the starch should be very blue. It helps to keep the color bright.
 A good sweet sandwich is made of banana cream spread between thin slices of sponge finger cake.
 When an iron gets rough on the bottom, rub it back and forth on smooth earth or a flat stone. To remove paint from common wooden chairs, scrub them with a strong solution of washing soda
 If cucumbers have lost their crisp ness, let them lie in cold water for several hours before slicing. Cold fish and hard boiled eggs with lettuce make simple and nourishing salad for a hot-weather dinner. Sweet green peppers shredded with young cabbage make an excellent sim pie salad with French dressing.
 If butter becomes a little strong, salted. This will restore the sweet ness In laying white clothes away for the winter, be sure there is no starch in them if you do not want them to crack.
 become discolored outside, rub them with 9 damp cloth dipped in coal ash es.
 To save ones hands while backing stove, slip the hand into a paper bag before grasping the blacking brush handle.
 delicious flavor is given to- any leaves in the cake pan before pouring in the batter.
 Ink can be removed from linen if you place thick white blotter under it and wash out the ink by means of a qaInp sponge. ss s,' should. be wiped with a cloth dipped in sa1ted water if you would keep it soft and flexible.
 A pinch, Of salt in the starch will keep irons from sticking. Some peo- pie stir a. candle about in the starch for the same purpose. A delicious simple salad can be made with sliced tomatoes and served with French dressing.
 To clear a room of mosquitoes, put half teaspoonful of oil of lavender in 8 cup of boiling water, No mos- quito can endure it. green of fresh peas or beans, put a tiny pinch of soda into the water in which they are boiled.
 If you live in the country and throw soapsuds and dishwater out, don't for get that rose bushes and other pet plants will thrive on it. If you are so fortunate as to have different sizes of sheets in your linz en closet, mark all the sheets of a size with one distinguishing mark.
 To take fruit stains out of linen, stretch the stained spot over a bowl and pour boiling water through It.. Peach stains are an. exception to this rule. Salmon or salmon trout sandwiches are delicious. Flake the fish and add a little cream to it. A dash of French mustard is an improvement.
 If lamp chimneys are only a little clouded and you wish to save time, tea kettle and wipe with a clean cheesecloth.
 The net guimpeS so much worn now adays will last much longer if they are washed without ironing. Shape them carefully damp instead. Add a little salt to the bluing water in which white clothes are rinsed if you want to be sure to keep the blu ing from setting in spots or stripes. Olives, stoned and chopped and mix ed with fresh butter or heavy cream, and cream cheese make one of the most delicious of sandwich filings. To keep the kitchen range fire when you are not using it, take the stove lids off a little while before putting on fresh coal. Then put the lids on only half way
 A good way to serve salad is in to- mato shells. Take the skin off the tomato, cut a slice off at the stem and scoop out core and seeds. Put in re- |lfrigerator until wanted. If you find insects when washing lettuce, put it through salted water, then rinse again ~-in clear. But be sure not to leave in the salt water more than a minute or it will wilt. Tn cellar or pantry where it is diff ficu1t to keep the air dry, place bowls of unslaked lime on the shelves near the food. The lime, of course. should be renewed from time to time A delicious Turkish dish can be made from leftover roast beef, tona- to sauce and rice. Chop the beef and heat together with the rice and tona- to in a saucepan; season with pepper and a. dash of curry. Early in the season, when apples are scarce, the windfalls make excellent applesauce Cut out all the worrny portions and cores, but do not pare them; then cook and rub through a hair sieve.
 If your family is small and table scraps not numerous, the easiest way to dispose of them is to put them un- der the back lids of the stove to drys out. When dry, they should be rak- ed forward on the bed of coals and