The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-27
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

To potato soup add half a cup Ot
 blanched almonds. finely chopped
 Stains may be removed from the
 xinc tops of kitchen tables with vim egar.
 | A slice of tomato is good on indi-
 vidual casseroles of baked spaghetti
 and cheese.
 Pineapple is good for indigestion
 the juice containing digestive fluid
 similar to pepSin.
 Almond oil and 1anolin in equal
 parts rubbed into the eyebrows will
 stimulate their growth. %4
 Insects like neither salt nor alum
 and small quantity sprinkled on the
 carpet will keep them away.
 For a greasy; oily skin, put some
 vinegar into the wash water
 Instead of wasting scraps of meal or fish, cut up fine and put in youI
 potato puffs. It improves them.
 Delicious sandwiches may be made
 by using homemade currant bread
 filled with cream cheese and chopped
 peppers.
 To clean silver and gold faces ol
 braids, when they have become tar.
 nished. apply spirits of wine with 8 soft flannel cloth.
 To remove ink spots cover with tall
 low before sending to the laundry This can be used on colored material: where lemon and salt cannot. Save your lemon rinds, dry them il the oven and store them in an air. tight tin. A little of this added tc an apple pie gives it delicious fla. voring.
 A thing worth Knowing when one has to take bitter medicine is this A small pinch. of salt will remove al taste of bitterness from the mouth Use paper bags for cooking. Thi! saves pot washing, is most clean ani sanitary and not expensive. When eyer pots and pans are used wasl them at once.
 Keep kerosene on, hand. With { little whiting it makes an excellen silver polish; a cloth moistened witt f it will be useful in cleaning the bath tub in jiffy.
 If the cane chair seats are sagginf
 turn the chairs upside down and soa1
 them in cold. strong soap studs. IT
 drying they will stiffen to their nor nal condition.
 While washing the dishes from tn, evening meals put the cereal on ant cook it. All that need be done to i the following morning is to add a lit tie water to it and heat When making baked or boiled GUS tard. the milk to be used should b, scalded and set aside to cool Ther | make the custard in the ordinary way, and it will be perfectly smooth If one cupful of vinegar is put witt the water in which colored table cloth, are washed, it will prevent the colo from running. Iron when still damn and they will look equal to new. Freshness of eggs may be tested by
 putting them into water. A fresl egg will remain at the bottom. on, not so fresh will float little higher and bad one will rise to the surface Art muslin curtains should neve be washed in warm water Make father with hot water and when it il | nearly cold wash the curtains. I these are green, add vinegar; if lila, l or pink, ammonia
 | Do not take time to grate choco l late. Put the desired amount in 2 | saucepan and place over the top of {
 tea kettle until melted. Two squarel | of unsweetened chocolate are equal t,
 cupful of grated.
 If the table is not used for othel purposes set it when you are drying | the dishes. It is then ready for tn,
 next meal, and, as most girls with tn. housekeeping instinct are artistic | this gives hospitable touch to tn, room.
 1 Gold lace and trimmings tarnisf very quickly. They may be cleaned | by using powdered rock ammonia. Alp ply this with flannel cloth or sof
 brush. If badly tarnished, the lac. | should be wrapped in the powder fol several days.
 | milk sour from one day to another | for the breakfast gridle cakes, be- cause cakes made from sour milk ant soda are so much superior in light ness and texture to those made O. sweet milk and baking powder