The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-10-01
Household Hints

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tack on mosquito bar. This is good to
keep the flies off baby while he is
sleeping.
Baking soda will remove coffee stains
from dishes. Moisten the soda and rub
on the spot with a cloth. Soda will
also remove berry stains from granite
ware, tinware and the hands.
To prevent the stains that often re-
suit from muddy skirts dilute sour milk
with water and soak the skirt in it
overnight, then wash in the usual way.
The skirt will wash easier and look
winter.
If you have beans to can snap them
as for fresh eating and to two quarts
of rain water use three tablespoonsful
of good vinegar. Boil the beans till al
most tender, and seal in glass jars.
To Darken the Stove-To darken the
top of cook stove form a piece of
clean old cotton cloth into a pad, wet,
squeeze and apply any yellow laundry
soap and rub the top until the pad
becomes too hot, then dip tho soap into
water, rub the cloth and the stove, and
continue the process. If stove is
soaped twice a day or even once, Just
after dinner, it will be kept in a pre-.
sentable condition during the after
noon. The soapy odor may be overcome
by placing pinch of ground coffee on
tho stove top. There is an old saying
that new stove rubbed daily with
soaped cloth will never need blacken-
ing on the top.
Salt fish are quickest and best fresh
ened by soaking in sour milk.
Pillow-case tubing makes practical
petticoats for small children.
Jelly roll rolls easier if turned out
on hot cloth. Roll up and pin the
cloth firmly around unit COOL
A wholesome salad is made Of cooked
or well soaked table prunes, the seeds
removed and stuffed with nuts. Serve
on a lettuce leaf with salad dressing.
To remove paint from the window
panes, dissolve soda in hot water, wash
the glass with it, and In half an hour
rub the paint off with . dry cloth.
When stitching seams on the machine
in silk garment, use either fine cot
ton or one thread cotton and the other
silk. By SO doing you win obviate any
puckering Of the seams, and if you
should have occasion to rip them, You
will have less trouble.
When placing patch pocket on
coat of woolen or silk material, slip a
narrow piece of featherbone through
the top hem and catch it fast to each
side when you stitch the pocket in
place. This will prevent the pocket sag
ging at the side.
Always use very fine cotton when
stitching chiffon, crepe dc chine, silk,
muslin net, mousseline, or any Of the
finer materials. Place piece of clean
paper under the goods and stitch it
with the material, then tear away the
paper after the work is done. In this
way you will avoid having the work
puckered or drawn.
Cold breakfast cereal nodded in small
cups and served with dates or fruits is
sppetizing for supper, provided 1t can
be served with rich cream. Good gems
are made by taking equal quantities Of
flour and breakfast food, adding one
teaspoonful of baking powder to cup
of the mixture, and then adding suffi-
eient milk to mako batter which will
drop from the spoon. Mix thoroughly
and bake in hot buttered gem pans.
Having the pans very hot is one of the
secrets Of success with these gems.
70 remove a rusty screw which fails
to yield to the screwdriver, apply
heavy skewer, or other piece Of metal,
heated red hot, and when the screw
itself is hot, the trouble will be over
come.
On wash day, if having to rinse in
hard water, before adding the bluing
to the water, add cup of sweet milk
and the clothes will not be streaked
but white.