East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-25
Household Hints
70 PROTECT your enameled cooking
, utensils, use the iron lids raised

spread the heat so evenly and quickly
that il does away with the desire TO
whisk off the lid and cook over the
open flame when one is in a hurry,
writes n Monitor reader. Practically
the same heat intensity is obtained and
there will be no SCOT on your cherished
blue and white kettles and saucepans.
Rusty steel should be covered with
kerosene oil and after twenty. four
hours rubbed with unslaked lime. Re.
peat IL necessary.
Brass tenders and fire-irons can be
lacquered with special preparation
which will prevent them from requir.
ing constant polishing.
II the little cap that should be over
the end Of the drain pipe in the refrig-
orator gets lost put fruit jar full Of
water into the drip pan. The melting
water will 90 into the jar which will,
Of course, overflow. The ascending hot
mir through the drip pie which is not
protected at the bottom is the cause
fence during hot weather.
Castor oil mixed with melted tallow
and rubbed on leather will make it YER
min-proof. Mildew can be removed
from leather by rubbing il gently with
vaselinc.
Articles infested with moths or fleas
should be saturated in benzine. The
benzine Injuries nothing and it kills the
pests.
Keep a pot Of mignonette growing
on your windowsill il you are bothered
with flies in warm weather. Flies de,
test the smell of il, aud you will find
the pests will not trouble you 30 long
as the mignonctte is there.
The envelope of paraffned paper
sheets should be in every kitchen.
Wrapped about articles Of food in the
Refrigerator il keeps the latter sweet
and the food in good condition. Cheese
should first be wrapped in a clean cloth
wet with vinegar and then in the waxed
paper.
If shoe polish becomes hard, moisten
with milk. This will improve the shine
Of the polish as well as acting as a
softening agent.
Soup quickly goes sour in the warn
days, but it will keep sweet If pinch
of carbonate of soda is added to every
quart.
II you have not an ice. shaver, or il
is lost or broken, try Something ever
better. Crack the ice in small pieces
and put them through the meat grinder
II garment becomes scorehed il
ironing, lay 4 wet cloth over the place
and pass n hot iron over it, causing
1t to steam freely. Repeat until the
mark disappears, which will not b
long unless it is really burned.
Paste sof, blotting paper on the bot
tom of ornaments, vases or flower
bowls and they will not mar polished
surfaces.
Utilizing left.overs is not an econ
omy il it requires too much time ol
labor, or too expensive additions tC
make them palatable. Sometimes scraps
make much better fresh eggs than any
thing else. The chickens really need
some of them.
II you want to transfer pretty pat
terms that you see in a newspaper, put
q piece Of carbon paper (t yot
haven t, several sheets can be gotter
for 5 cents and each may be used
innumerable times) face down on your
fabric, then put the newspaper ove'
and trace the outline Of the desigr
with sharp pencil.
II food burns in nice, new enamel
ed dish. put in a tablespoon of sa
soda, fill with water and boil.
Everything about the kitchen should
be washable-walls, wood work, floors
Cor floor coveripgs), shelves, furniture
and utensils.
The only way to be sure of having
tidy mautcl in living room or kitchen
seems 10 be not to use it at all or tC
omit it altogether.
When the whites Of eggs refuse t.