Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-26
Household Hints
TO PROTECT your enameled cooking

above the level of the range by
perforated borders. The air spaces
spread the heat so evenly and quickly
that it does away with the desire to
whisk off the lid and cook over the
open flame when one is in n hurry,
writes a 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 if necessary.
Brass tenders and fire-irons can be
lacquered with a special preparation
which will prevent them from requir-
ing constant polishing.
If the little cap that should be over
tie 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 go into the jar which will,
of course, overflow. The ascending hot
air through the drip pie which is not
protected at the bottom is the cause
of considerable expense and inconven-
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 it gently with
vaseline.
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 if you are bothered
with flies in warm weatherR Flies de-
test the smell of it, and you will find
the pests will not trouble you SO long
as the mignonette is there.
The envelope of paraffined paper
sheets should be in every kitchen.
Wrapped about articles of food in the
refrigerator it keeps the latter sweet
and the food in good condition. Cheese
should first be wrapped in 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 warm
days, but it will keep sweet if pinch
of carbonate of soda is added to every
quart.
If you have not an ice shaver, or it
is lost or broken, try something even
better. Crack the ice in small pieces
and put them through tho meat grinder.
If a garment becomes scorched in
ironing, lay wet cloth over the place
and pass a hot iron over it, causing
it to steam freely. Repeat until the
mark disappears, which will not be
long unless it is really burned.
Paste soft blotting paper on the bot
tom of ornaments, vases or flower
bowls and they will not mar polished
surfaces.
Utilizing left-overs is not or econ
omy if it requires too much time or
labor, or too expensive additions to
make them palatable. Sometimes scraps
make much better fresh eggs than any
thing else. The chickens really need
some of them.
If you want TO transfer pretty pat
terms that you see in a newspaper, put
piece of carbon paper Gf you
haven't, several sheets can be gotten
for cents and each may be used
innumerable times) face down on your
fabric, then put the newspaper over
and trace the outline of the design
with sharp pencil.
If food burns in a nice, new enamel
ed dish, put in a tablespoon of sal
soda, fill with water and boil.
Everything about the kitchen should
be washable-walls, wood work, floors
Cor floor coverings), shelves, furniture
and utensils.
The onlv way to be sure of having a