Middletown transcript., 1912-10-19
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

Soap scraps put in little bag can be
used for dishwashing.
Mustard will not get dry if it is mixed
with milk instead of water.
Excellent for cleaning brass is TIE
water in which potatoes are boiled.
Rub the top of the handicapped
washstand with turpentine; it will keep
it in perfect order.
Stains can be removed from coat col
lar by rubbing it gently with cloth dip
ped in ammonia.
Ribbons and silk can be sponged with
mixture of equal parts of alcohol and
highly rectiied beuzine.
The favor of creamed potatoes will be
very pleasing if few pieces of chopped
green peppers are added.
Damp salt will take off the discolora-
tions on cups and saucers caused by tea
and careless washing.
If white kid gloves are rubbed gently
with breadcrumbs after each wearing,
they will keep clean much longer.
If cream is whipped in a pitcher in
stead of in a bowl, it will whip more
quickly and there is no waste in spatter-
ing.
Equal parts of linseed oil and cider
vinegar mixed thoroughly together
makes an excellent dressing for linoleum.
If little ginger (about one-third of
teaspoonful) is used when making
doughnuts, they will keep fresh longer.
Always lay damp cloth over a skirt
before pressing it go that the iron will
not touch the material and make it shiny.
Put piece of bread through the meat
chopper after chopping meat or raisins.
You will find no difficulty in washing it
clean.
Mark the children's clothing with diff
erent colors. By this method much time
can be saved when sorting and putting
away.
Beds should never be made up i'm
mediately after they are vacated. 1t is
not hygienic; beds should be aired at
least two hours.
The odor from boiling cabbage or cauIi-
flower can be lessened by a piece of bread |
put into muslin bag and dropped into |
the pot.
Asponge should occasionally be washed |
in warm water with little tartaric acid
or soda afterward rinse it in clean warm
water.
Sweet potatoes, if creased before being
put in the oven, will bake in half the
time and the skin will be almost as soft
rs when boiled.
The mica in stoves will clean nicely if
thoroughly washed with vinegar slightly
diluted. If the black does not come off
readily, soak it for little while.
Honey is good remedy for throat irri-
ltions. For sharp, tickling throat
cough a teaspoon taken every few
will sllsy the irritation.
When the paint has been allowed to
Try on paint brushes, heat some vinegar
% the boiling point and allow the brush
10 simmer slowly in it for few minutes.
A rusty screw can be removed by ap-
plying a heavy red hot skewer or other
metal piece. When the skewer itself is
lot it will come out without any difficult
y.
Dates stuffed with peanut butter ard
hen rolled in sugar are pleasing change
rom dates stuffed with nuts.
If curtain or portiere pole is rubbed
With hard soap before being put up the
lraperies will slip on easily.
Dates and fgs cut in small pieces and
erved with plenty of sugar make a tasty
to dish of rice boiled in
milk,
Cheese may be kept soft and good for
Oug tiuIs if wrapped in cloth cloth wrunk |
mt in vinegar and then wrapped again in
Try cloth.
Whole wheat or brown bread cut into
cry thin slices and spread with unsalted
utter is tasty served with oysters on the
alf shell.
Strange as it may seem beef may be
eep tor months if immersed in sour
milk. The Tactic acid destroys the germs
+ patrefaction.
Scraps of toilet soap should be saved 8
nd when half a cupful or 60 is on hand J
is good plan to make the scraps into
soap jelly.
Use hot milk instead of cold when
lashing potatoes and they will be flufier. !.
Chicken fat is far better than butter to !
se in making white sauce when cream r
lg chicken.
Always lower the temperature OF the
ven somewhat fifteen or twenty minutes
ter roast has been placed in it. This
i'll insure that the juices be retained.