The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-17
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Fish dipped in boiling water will scale easily.
 Tortoise shell combs will brighten if rubbed with olive oil.
 Beeswax and salt will make rusty hatirens as clear as glass.
 Inkstaina on garments can be soaked out in salt and milk. Dry flour rubbed on tin with a news paper will clean it beautifully. Scrambled eggs on toast make a very good summer breagnast dish i Cereals with fruit make very good and economical luncheon dishes Warm a lemon before squeezirg it and you will get much more juice.
 Never fold an umbrella when it is wet, but keep it folded when it is dry. Powdered starch if applied imme- diately to fruit stains will remove them.
 To bleach bandkerchfehs add a slice It is very handy to have a supply of round straw mats for seats on grass or yeranda.
 A bottle of dried-up glue will be- ] come soft if a little vinegar is placed ! in the bottle.
 Brass if rubbed with sweet oil after it has been polished will not tarnish l so quickly.
 Always put the scrubbing brush to dry with the bristIes down. This will | save the brush.
 Apples cored and filled with chopped dates or figs, then baked. make an ex- cellent dessert.
 Aluminium kitchen utensils should never be washed with soda Use sim pie soap and water.
 If the head aches from heat, put a cold compress on the back of the neck and on the wrists. 1 Gas oven should be cleaned with warm, soapy water to which a little ammonia has been added.
 Apply glycerin to a scald directly after accident occurs and cover it with rags saturated with glycerin l The clothes wringer will last twice las long if the pressure screw at the Itop is loosened after using. New potatoes is soaked in water Ethat has "a little soda dissolved in 1t will scrape and clean beautifully. I Milk OF milk foods will not scorch if the stewpan is rinsed in cold water and rubbed with 9 little fresh butter Tor lard.
 If you would prevent vegetables I from boiling over, drop a piece of dripping the size of a walnut in the 1 center of them.
 When a window is difficult to raise, pour melted lard between the frame I and the casing and Aput a little also lon the cord. I When boiling a ham, leave it in the l water in which it has been cooked l until it is cool. This will make it tender and juicy.
 The wen-beaten white of an egg whipped into mashed potatoes before l lserving them will add much to their I appearance and taste.
 If hard boiled eggs are plunged into cold water as soon as they are taken from the fire there will be nc dark ring around the yoIk. <,f .es%
 the floor before laying the oilc1oth, it T will make much softer tread and in- Il crease the life of the oi1cIoth.
 To make jam or marmalade look lcIear without skimming it, add a piece f Of butter the size of an egg before 5l removing the fruit from the fire.
 The bathing cap may be kept in
 condition for another year by sprink- ling it thick1y inside and out with
 toilet powder before putting it away 1 The careful housewife will not I discard little bits of old milk, but she
 will put these small amounts in a ja1 and set them aside to sour. There are so many uses for sour milk tn cookery that the sour milk jar will be Ifound a great convenience.