The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-04
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

i Rub little lemon juice on tarnish- i ed faucets to brighten them. 1 it viii not tarnish pack it in dry flour. 1 Save the fir needles of the Christ I mas tree for sweet-sn'el!ing pillows: l dried, grated and bottled to be ready l for use.
 Rub the butter paddles with salt if 1 you have any trouble making butter Put cream and bread crumbs into hamburg steak and it will be delight Windows, are most easily cleaned with a cloth first and then rubbed with a chamois.
 water and dry it before cutting fresh bread or cake.
 Pour boiling starch over ink or io- dine spots and they will come out in two Or three hours.
 To prevent chapped hands in cold weather always dry them very care- fully after washing.
 Use old catalogues for pads for the l kitchen table or cupboard Or to try the f1atirons on.
 Scatter grated white potato over the l freshen their colors.
 To take ink spots out of colored To freshen refrigerator. clean thoroughly and paint with white l enamel, giving two coats: Use a bicycle pump to clean such parts of the sewing chine as you cannot reach with a cloth. To keep thread or silk from knot ting as you sew, try soaping it with bit of pure white soap.
 Shrink woo1en alarming yarn in the steam of a tea kettle before mending the stockings with it.
 Before peelins onions. let them stand in water, then peel, and the eyes will not smart SO badly.
 To keep clothespins from freezing to the clothes put two handsfuI of salt in your bluing water.
 To take castor oil easily, put orange juice in a, glass first, then the oil, then more orange juice.
 Sponge black silk with clear coffee to freshen it, and iron on the wrong side when partly dry
 Mend the boys trousers on the sew ing machine and the patch will not pull out as if done by hand.
 Freeze candles before using them to light your dinner table. They will not run and vii last much longer.
 When cleaning with gasoline stand the gasoline bottle in basin of hot water until the gasoline is warm:
 Dried out toast dipped in boiling hot salted water and buttered is a pleasant change from the usual kind.
 When cutting fur never use eciss- sors; use a razor or very sharp pen knife to cut through the skin at the back.
 Put a little salt in the starch and it will not freeze out'' of the clothes when they are hung out to dry in cola weather.
 All milk buildings intended to be eaten at luncheon should be prepared as soon as the breakfast things are cleared away.
 Put pieces of heavy cardboard, cut to fit, into the heels of rdbbers if you would save them from wearing out quickly.
 For pumpkin pie use one egg and three tablespoons of fine cracker crumbs to 8 pie. It is better than when more eggs are used. ,,,.
 When the henstitching on bed linen breaks apart, cover it with row of feather-stitched braid, neatly stitched on at each side.
 entrances to cupboard and pantry and plaster them with mixture or SOIL laundry soap and red pepper. + aru
 When cf1f1dren's shoes are wet ory them and apply a little glycerine WItn a bit of absorbent cotton Tney Whi be quite soft in the morning. +o rise in cold weather, put a hot water bag filled with hot water on top or the carefully covered bread pail. at least a day before they are wanted, and the soups should not be th1ckeneo till just before they are used
 Scour kitchen boards and tables Wltn a paste made of one-haf pound sort soap and one-quarter pound of lime. Use as you would soap and wash the wood with plenty of water.
 TO clean white wool yarn, sift warm corstarch through it and roll in towel In two days shake the StarCn out of # and it will be perfectly
 A cutlery esho1der of strong denim; with pockets stitched into it to hold the variously sized forks and knives, is handy. thing to tack above the kitchen table.
 A warm quilt for winter is made of a pair of bordered cotton blankets with cotton put in as for any otner o quilt. Tie with wool the some color HouseIeepers [ in hotels, and other. places where there are large quantl- ties of linen to darn are apt to oo them by machine, simply et1tchlng
 After washing quilts and comforta- 4les. and while they are still on the line but nearly dry, beat them with a carpet beater and they will be wonder fully light. :. ao h,, eratine the yellow part of the rind on enough granulated sugar to aosorp the oil Mix thoroughly and put in tight bottle. -=,, -,,a1a a pood rnuffler when past it's cap use fuiness. Simply cut off the tassel end and crochet an edge all around Tn wool to match .4 ;1,
 To dry a woolen sweater so it Will not lose ifs proportions, shape it While it is wet and lay it flat on 1oIoed turkish towel A vest should De hung on g. coat hanger - ,.
 few scraps of fat meat that have heen saved will brighten up a dying kitchen fire Then put on a few pits of charcoal and when this IS burning add the hard coal
 New york-Answering Miss Mary McIniy1e's suit for breach of prom ise, William Hughes, wealthy manu- facturer says she Oropc sed and he merely acuuiesced.