The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-27
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

salt fish. see that the skin side is up- permost.
 Iced water in a pitcher will keep much longer if paper bag is placed over the top.
 Charcoal in pieces the size of a pea or burnt cork once a week is good for all poultry.
 4 good. black ink. mixed with white of egg, will restore the color of kie shoes and gloves.
 To polish zink, rub briskly with a cloth dipped in kerosene and rinse off with boiling water.
 A porcelain tub or sink may be thoroughly cleaned with a flannel dip ped in spirits of turpentine.
 Cut flowers will last we'll if piece of saltpeter be added to the water in which they stand.
 When buttering bread for sand wiches always butter the end of the loaf before cutting off the slice.
 To save grease when frying dough- nuts, put half teaspoonful of ginger into the grease when hot.
 Outside leaves of lettuce if boiled chopped, drained and served on toast like spinach, are delicious.
 New iron pots should always be boiled first with wood ashes and cold water and then thoroughly scalded. A discolored bean pot may be re- stored to its original whiteness by letting buttermilk stand in it for a day or so-
 If the brush is removed from the carpet sweeper, dipped in water and then replaced, the sweeper will not raise a dust.
 considerably after the roast has been in for 20 minutes, and the juices will be retained.
 Unbleached calico shrinks very much when washing. When making it LID an extra inch yard should be allowed for this
 For salad sandwiches, mix chop ped celery and mayonnaise with shredded white lettuce and spread on thin slices of bread.
 green peas is to boil them before shel- ing. and then to season and reheat them after shelling.
 To prevent pictures from dipping and hanging uneven, hang them first face to the wall and then twist around. making a cross in the wire. A simple but easy method Of whitening clothes is, when boiling them, to drop in few peach leaves tied up in a musliin cloth.
 To make olive sandwiches, remove the pits and cut up fine. Mix with mayonnaise and spread between thin slices of buttered bread.
 When preparing turkey or chick en, try rubbing it inside with piece of lemon. It will whiten the flesh ana make it more tender.
 To make butter scotch. mix four cupfuls of brown sugar, two cupfuls of butter and three tablespoonfuls or water and boil until crisp in water. Brass or copper may be easily cleaned by rubbing with wet, soapy rag dipped in powdered bath brick, Polish with soft, dry cloth or news paper.
 A quick way to mark linen, sheets, etc. is to write the name in pencil then stitch over the line with a sew ing machine using a coarse thread and long stitch.
 When boiling bacon or ham add a little vinegar and two or three cloves to the water and leave the meat in until the water is cold. The flavor will be delicious.
 Cod liver oil stains on linen may be eradicated by soaking the marks with equal parts of liquid ammonia and hot water, mixed. Afterward wash with soft water and soap.
 Cabbage water is the cause of dis agreeable smells when 1t IS not thrown away. To avoid the smell, some people put piece of charcoal In For a sardine cocktail, novel dish, prepare cocktail sauce in glass surrounded by ice, as in an oyster cocktail. Then cut sardines in pieces about an inch long. Serve in the sauce.
 Wet shoes should be stuffed with paper before putting away. It will absorb the moisture and prevent the shoes from becoming hard. ,,
 Some people use the white as well mayonnaise. Just before serving the mayonnaise the white of the egg is whipped stiff and beaten into the dressing.
 A reliable cement for glass orna- ments is found in white of egg, which that the hrQakagG may easily escape detection. This, of course, is suitable only for articles not to be washed.
 To shade lace, mix cents worth of yellow ocher with an equal quan- tity of rice powder and put into box Put in the lace and shake 1t up. Brush off all the powder possible. It will be fast color.
 To fill floor cracks, get a pound of glue, let it stand over night covered with water. Then pour off the water and stir it into a pound of corn starch Fill the cracks with this and snfcoth off with a knife.
 After frying doughnuts, place the kettle of hot grease out-of-doors ana pour in little cold water, enough to make the grease bubble. This will take out the burnt taste, and the grease may be used again.
 In mixing mustard, use warm, never hot water. If the water is too warm
  delicious mustard is made by mixing the dry mustard with equal parts of olive oil and tarragon vinegar.
 In cold weather put the clothes pins in a pan and set in the oven un- til they are hot. Then the fingers will not suffer when hanging out the clothes, especially if the clothes are rinsed the last time in warm water.
 To thoroughly clean a porcelain sink, take equal parts of chloride of lime and a good soap powder, rub we'll and then follow with lemon juice and salt. Let this remain on for sev- eral hours, and all rust spots will dis appear.
 A clever device for letting the oil drop slowly from the bottle when making a salad dressing is this: Cut two grooves in the cork on opposite sides; one groove admits air, while the other permits the oil to run slow ly and evenly.
 10 cook canned corn without burn ing, remove the paper from the can and put in the teakettle to boil for fifteen minutes. Then open and pour the corn into a hot buttered dish. Season with a dash of salt and pep per and a little cream.
 To clean white marble, wash it thoroughly with soap and water; then brush 1t over we'll, especially in the crevices, with whiting mixed with a little blue, as used for ceilings. AL low to dry thoroughly and then rub Wjfh a o1oon of