The Washington herald., 1914-02-04
HOUSEHOLD HELPS
WORTH REMEMBERING


A quick and easy way TO dry the hair
Is as follows: Remove the, crown from
an old straw ha. After the shampoo,
remove the greater part of the water
from the hair by rubbing-with towel.
then list the hair through the crown of
the hat. rest the hat on the head and
spread the hair out around the brim to
dry.
To restore scorched linen, peel and
slice two onions and extract the juice.
Add to II half an ounce white soap. cup
up: two ounces .FuIlers. earth and half a
pint Of vinegar. Boil together. then cool
an: spread over the scorched spot. Dry.
then wash the linen.
A great deal Of fire expense can be
saved BY sSillful treatment OF left-overs-
or soup instead of really cooking them a
second time. --------.
Even when there is cream in the coffee.
stains can be rem ed from the most
delicate silk or woolen fabrics by brush
ing the spots with pure giycerin and
rinsing In lukewarm, water.
To relieve a cough. roast a lemon with
out burning II. When IL is thoroughly
hot, cut and squeeze II into a cup con-
tanning three ounces, Of finely powdered
sugar.
Lacauered brass N be cleaned by
washing II in hot water, and a little soap
ma be added IL necessary.
Cut glass will be clear and sparkling
IL a little bluing Is. added to the soap
suds in which 1t is washed.
II plants are washed in soapsuds they
will not have insects on them.
A simple and easy way to iron sheets
is to first fold the two hens together
right side out. then fold the sheets across
tn. center, forming square. with the
broad hem on top of the sheet outside.
Then simply iron the SQUARE on both sides
and the sheet will have a well-ironed ap-
pearance when on a bed.
The flesh of fish out of season is un-
wholesome II necessary to keep fish over
night. place them where the moon VIII
not shine on them; the effect Is as bad
as hot sunshine. Cod, haddock.. and hall
but may be kept a day before using.
but mackerel and whtefish lose their
life as soon as they leave the water.
Maple sugar frosting will make plain
cake into something extra fine. Use one
cupful each of maple and granulated
sugar, ,teaspoonful OF butter and three
teaspoonfuls Of cream. Boil five minutes
and stir till slightly thickened. DIP the
cakes In.
When winding a skein of wool. try
starting the winding on the tag which
comes attached to each skein. Then when
the ball Is used up you have the tag, CIV
ing the makers name, quality, &C, and
there will be no difiiculty in finding out
where and how to match the wool.
To soften brushes that have become
hard, soak twenty-four hours In raw lin
seed oil and rinse in hot turpentine. Or
they may be washed in hot soda and
water with soft soap.
Get a nickeps worth Of stick glue at
your druggists and put three or four
pieces at intervals In the soil around
your fern. Do this three or four times a
year and you will notice marked Inn
provement In il.
Bake a small portion Of beans in a lit
tie earthen jar the size of, a teacup and
put 1t in the chiidren's luneh. Such q
cup Is good used FOR icustards, scailoped
potatoes or favorite pudding.
II ner enamel saucepans- are placed
in q pAn Of warm water. allowed to
come to the boil and then cooled, they
viii be found to last much longer before
either cracking or burning.