The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-04
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

To clean an enamel bathtub, wipe it dry and then rub it with a cloth dipped in turpentine and salt Af- terward wash it with clean warm wa ter.
 To clean French kid gloves, draw them on your hands and wash them in spirits of turpentine, then hang them where there is a current of air.
 To keep bread boards a beautiful white, rub them well with half a lem on, then wash in cold water and stand them in the, wind and sun to dry.
 Red tiles can be made fine bright color if rubbed with lemon and dip ped in fine salt. Leave it for few minutes and wash in the usual way.
 One dram of boric acid mixed with four ounces of distilled witch hazel makes good lotion for greasy skin. Apply with soft cloth or velvet sponge.
 lent cleanser for. dainty velvet flowers and woolen fabrics. Rub the soi1ed spots harder than the rest, then rub it all off.
 Gum arabic is excellent for remov- ing the stains on marble Make so- lution of the gum arabic and water, letting it remain until it dries, then pull or wash it off.
 l Pour boiling water on oranges, let them stand for five minutes, then the white lining will come away clean with the skin and you can quickly slice a large quantity.
 When pie is ready for the oven, pour cold water over it and drain. Put at once into a hot oven, and it will bake at once to a rich brown, and the crust will be much more haky. l Always remove precipitation stains on white clothes and undergarn ents i in the following manner: First damp en the article with a little lemon juice before it is put into soap and water. is aTo keep a dish of food hot for half an hour or longer, a better plan than putting it in the oven is to set it on a saucepan of boiling water. letting the saucepan stand on the top of the stove. 1 To remove smoke stains from the ceiling, mix a thick paste of starch ] and water, and with a clean flannel spread it over the mark. Allow it to get thoroughly dry, then brush of l with a soft brush.
 If you want to paper a room cheap ly yet artistical1y, use rolls of coarse brown paper that the butchers use for wrapping paper. Put it on the wall the same way as ordinary wall paper is put on.
 To relieve and sometimes cure g cough, roast a lemon very carefully without burning it. When it is thor ough1y hot, cut and squeeze it into g cup containing finely powdered SUI gar 4aK0 Ln1S While IS SL1lI not. | When shutting a house up for 2 long time, pack the silver in dry dou1 and keep the forks, knives and spoons together, arranging in layers with flour between. The silver will re. main perfectly bright and untarnish. ed.
 Ugly cracks in furniture may be easily filled with beeswax, so that the marks will hardly show. Slightly soften the beeswax until it becomes p1iable, then press it firmly into the cracks, smoothing the surface over with thin knife.
 Clean gilt picture frames by put soda water Te remove all dust from the frames, dip a large camePs hail brush into the mixture, squeeze i partly dry, then brush the gilt, doing a small part at a time
 Mud stains can be removed from white serge in the following way: F'irs allow the mud to dry thoroughly, ther cover the spots with common tabI, salt and leave for two or three min utes. After that, take piece of tis sue paper and rub off the salt Final ly apply a little French salt ant brush this off with a clean brush.
 In removing spots, put a thick paC of cheesecloth or some other materia underneath the spot to obsorb the dir ty cleansing liquid that soaks througl the garment.
 Instead of just heating butter an sugar together for hard sauce, stt l into it one-ha1f cup of whipped crean
 and the white Of an egg, beaten yer light
 When a cork falls into the vinega
 bottle, to get it out tie a nail on tn loop of a string so that it will not foa1 and it will be easy to get the etrin