The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-15
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Old felt hats make felt insoIes for slippers and rubber boots.
 When cooling newly baked bread cover it lightly with a clean cloth.
 Always screen all foods and do not unnecessarily expose your dishes
 When turnips are young, wash them carefully and boil without peeling-
 Olive oil applied to the skin will soften it and build up impoverished tissue.
 To take oil out of carpets put on buckwheat flour and brush it off care fully into a. dustpan-
 Soften brown sugar which has be- come lumpy by placing it in a pan over boiling tea kettle
 A strawberry huller is an excellent thing for removing obstinate pin feathers from poultry
 When baking beans put in about a half teaspoonful of ginger. This will aid in digesting them.
 Mirrors are best cleaned with a cloth dipped in alcohol, then polished with a piece of tissue paper.
 A very easy and excellent paste for cleaning silver can be made by mixing whiting and ammonia.
 Insects do not like either salt or alum, and a small quantity sprinkled in the carpet will keep them away.
 Vinegar or yeast should never be kept in stone crooks or jugs The acid eats off the glazing, which is poison ous.
 When your furniture becomes dull rub it with a flannel dipped in equal parts of turpentine and kerosene.
 A very good way to reheat up a joint is to wrap it in rhickly zgreased paper and keep it covered while in the oven.
 Grease in the sink is a very pro is the best and simplest cleaning agent
 Parsley can be kept fresh by put ting it into a glass jar and screwing the lid on tight. then placing it in a cool place.
 Old pieces of garden hose fitted over the nozzles of the kitchen spigot will prevent the china from becoming badly clipped.
 Dry bran is an excellent cleaner for dainty velvet flowers and woolen fabrics. Rub the soi1ed spots and then brush it off thoroughly.
 For iron rust lay fin kerosene oil and let it remain covered for some time. The oil will loosen the rust so that it will come off.
 To remove soil from a, rubber rain coat dissolve soap in warm water and apply with a soft cloth or sponge Rinse carefully with clean water.
 If you put brass pai1s into boiling water with a good bit of washing soda and let them boil for perhaps an hour you will find them almost clean.
 Fine faces should never be starch ed; they will generally be stiff enough if ironed while very damp, the iron ing being continued until they are dry
 To clean windows in freezing wealth CT wipe them off with a. dry cloth, then with a cloth saturated in kero- sene Polish with a clean dry cloth.
 One cold chop will make 8, small dish of creamed or minced lamb. Cook the bone with 1t and simmer gently. Serve on toast and garnish with pars- ley
 Salt should never remain in any thing rubber, for instance, hot-water bottles or syringes. Rinse them out or the rubber will soon rot. |
 White wings and quil1s can be very successfully cleaned by putting them into a box of cornmeaI and shaking 1 gently. Brush off the meal with a brush. rninurn vessels be removed by l boiling a solution of water and borax and letting it stand for some time in the vessels.
 When a cork has been pushed into a bottle it can be gotten out by mak- 1 ing a loop of strong string and | carefully placing it under the cork, | then pulling steadily. After filling a rubber water bot l tie with hot water press the sides be- 1 fore screwing on the cap. This press | es the steam out and makes the wear l and tear less.
 Eggs will keep fresh for some time In the following way. Fill a box with | ordinary salt, smear each egg over with olive oil and place it in the salt, l end down.