The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
HOUSEHOLD NoTEa

Lettuce for salad should be well dried, as well as cold z A waste paper basket in bath room is a real convenience.
 MiIdew may be removed by soak ing the garment in buttermiIk
 Bronzes should be washed with beer and polished with channels.
 An application of kerosene oil VIII draw the sting from a burn.
 Common baking soda on a damp cloth is useful to clean bafhtubs
 Cut off the legs of old stockings and use them for sleeve protectors
 Grape jam with whipped creann on it is a novel and pretty desert.
 An extra nail for a stray towel or garment is a handy thing in a bath room.
 Sausage, bacon, rolls and bread sauce are the proper extras for roast turkey.
 Very sour fruits can be partly sweetened by pinch of salt while cooking. tsd
 When mailing hardwood, soap the nail first, and it is less ailxeIy to split he wood.
 Always rty to. cut curtains Ion the thread@ if you would have them hang true
 The living room table should never be crowded with books A few are enough.
 Always keep bundle of clean white rags on mana and a bottle of i disinfectant.
 Pies should adways De glazed with white of egg if you wish them to be a shiny brown.
 Every room in the house, even in winter, should be thoroughly aired at least once a day.
 An old catalogue kept near the stove is handy to set a. sooty pan on in an emergency.
 When wooden lblankets are past their best cover with sillkoltne and tack like a quilt A china dish with three compart- ments IS handy for passing cheese butter and biscuits. l Try beating carpets and rugs on g set of bed spring. tfley will look as if done by professi ona5. Inlividual tarts are always attrae- tive and make an agreeable change for the luncheon table. Plenty of towel rails around the bathtub are advisable if the room is used by more than one person
 Grease the bottoms of pots ana lSet- ties before putting over the coals, and 1 they will not become black
 The woman who seems to econo- 1mize on labor in her home will have l as little bright metal as possible. If brass or copper have Become I rQSrys InS Tu8Ls may pc ruDD3u OFT l with a weak solution of o1alic acid A skillfuI housekeeper win inter change the same utensils when cook ing so as to use the fewest possible.
 Meat patties for luncheon dishes I are econonnival because they can be made of almost every sort of cold | meat.
 If not fiat Is spilIed on the floor. throw cold water on it at once, and it will not soak into the Boards 20 deeply.
 l Paint the inside of bureau drawers with white enamel if you should have them always fresh and easy to keep clean.
 Anybody who has a hunter in the
 family can make a. very nice little 1 rug of rabbit skins sewn together on T a piece of carpet, ,l A brass crunb tray and seraper are nice for the llousekeeper who i, Hives note of brightness about her
 dining room Furnishings. If a rug cur1s. moisten it and wrap I it around a abroomstieIx, in the oppo-
 site way from its desires, then tie and
 let it dry. i. when a hot iron Is needed in a !, hurry, put a cake tin on the stove in- . stead of one of the regular stove Ida and set the iron on 1t. Keep. in the cellar a few onions which you allow to send up shoots They are delicious in winter salads or . to rub the salad bowl with.
 Bread sauce should never be served 7 stiff and sticky, sbut smooth and frea , from Jumps. The sauce should not .i boil after adding the bread. 2 Cut short pieces of white passepart- 2 out paper aud type or print on the : names of jellfes. preserves, etc. Be ! ing already gummed, they will save
 trouble.