The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-02-11
receive and publish hints OF In.
terest TO our readers.
Household Hints.

~ ihS uNNuoilo ihS ihcidN
with butter. This will prevent the
enamel from cracking and chipping
afterward.
After using your food or meat
chopper, run crust of bread through
the machine, and it will be much
more easily cleaned.
To avoid the ring" which often
forms around spots cleaned with gas
oline, add small quantity of salt to
the gasoline used in cleaning.
To make the old lids of fruit jars
look like new, boil them in weak
vinegar 20 minutes, and then scrub
them with soapsuds and a brush.
If after cleaning brass or copper
with salt and vinegar it is immediate
ly rubbed with olive oil, the metal
will not tarnish for a long time.
Before using new enameled cook
ing utensils grease the inside with
butter. This will prevent the enamel
from cracking and chipping after
ward.
To stop cracks and holes in stoves,
make cement of equal parts of
ashes and salt, adding enough water
to form soft paste. Use on stove
when stove is cold.
Dip one and one-half yards of
cheesecloth in water, wiring, then
sprinkle with water and kerosene,
and hang in air a short time. 1t
takes up all dust after sweeping and
keeps floor shiny and bright.
To mend leaky pans take small
brads and washers. Cut a piece of
leather, punch hole in it the size of
the brad, insert the brad through the
hole in pan, slip washer and leather
on brad and pan will not leak.
-
Pieces of string and twine which
economical housewives save from
grocery and other parcels delivered
at the door may be converted into
; exceptionally useful discloths, accord
ing to one who has used them. The
twine should be knitted with plain
stitch on coarse needles, as Washrags
are sometimes made.
Remove the cover from an old um-
brella and enamel the frame white
to prevent rust. Suspend the frame
by the handle from the ceiling near
the range. On ironing days it will
no found moct ucofiII fC, small
ticles, which can be hung on the
points to finish drying When not
required the frame can be shut up,
and will take up no room.
There are many excellent cleans
ing mediums on the market for white
shoes of all kinds, but there is no
simpler or more efficacious way Of
cleaning buckskin footwear than to
brush out all the dust and then scrub
with nailbrush wet with rich white
soapsuds. Wipe off the soap, rub
off with damp cloth to rinse out the
soap and then let the shoes dry in
the open air
When brass beds become furnished.
as they often do, you can lacquer
them and make them like new. First
rub the brass vigorously with flan-
mel dipped in whiting, then get 10
cents worth of shellac, dissolve it in
enough alcohol to make it thin, Ap-
ply with a small brush. 1t can be
done quickly, and the bed will look
as pretty as if sent to the factory,
and is much cheaper.
II you have had a waist or a light
dress stained by wearing bunch of
flowers, you will appreciate how much
trouble might be saved by owning
chamois case to cover the STEM Make
this by stitching into shape a piece
of chamois the desired size. Into
this case may be slipped the stems of
any short-stemmed flowers, and then
they may be carried or worn without
staining waist, glove or gown.
Lemons may be purchased when
cheap and kept for months, according
to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Put
layer of fine, dry sand about an
inch deep in an earthenware vessel.
Place row of lemons on this, with
the stalk ends downward, and be very
careful that the lemons do not touch.
Cover them with another layer of
sand about three inches deep, and on
this layer place another lot OF lemons,
and so on until the lar is full Store