The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-09-24
Household Hints
20 PROTECT your enameled cooking

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 a 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
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 60 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 benzne. 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 weather. 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 the meat grinder
If garment becomes scorched in
ironing, lay wet cloth over the place
and pass 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 an econ
omy if it requires too much time OF
labor, or too expensive additions te
make them palatable. Sometimes scrap'
make much better fresh eggs than any
thing else. The chickens really neeo
some Of them.
If you want to transfer pretty pat
terms that you see in newspaper, put
piece of carbon paper Gf yot
haven It, several sheets can be gotter
for cents and each may be usee
innumerable times) face down on you
fabric, then put the newspaper ovel
and trace the outline Of the desigI
with sharp pencil.
If food burns in a nice, new enamel
ed dish, put in a tablespoon of sa
soda. fill with water and boil.
Everything about the kitchen shoul'
be washable-walls, wood work, floor
(or floor coverings), shelves, furnitur
and utensils.
The only way to be sure of having
tidy mantel in living room or kitchel
seems to be not to use it at all or t
omit it altogether.
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