Evening journal., 1915-06-25
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Soak chocolate stains in Kerosene and
wash in cold water.
All plants should be thoroughly
soaked before planting.
It is easy to clean oily bottles if a.
little ammonia is used
Pineappes aid digestion and should
be eaten after meals.
Floors must be spotless if the house
is to have a well-kept look.
Wood ashes are splendid for remov-
ing hower-pot stains from window
sills.
Ii things are done right about the
house there will not seem to be so much
work.
When cleaning house, the cane chairs
should be washed with soap and hot
water.
Onion skins boiled in stock or gravy
give nice color, and also just little
nourishment.
To clean willow furniture apply salt
and water with brush and rub thor
oughly until dry.
If dry crusts of bread arc put in the
oven and Drowned, they are most appe-
tising with cheese and fruit.
Grease the bottom of granite or tin
pots before placing over the fire and the
black will wash off easily.
Should fresh paint be spilled on the
floor, pour some vinegar on 1t at once
and wipe up with soft cloth.
Apply kerosene literally to any cop
per vessel which has become discolored;
/ then wash with hot water and soap.
Do not allow ashes TO collect under
the Kitchen range CRATE. The ashes viii
burn out the crate in no time.
Leftover coffee-grounds, slightly
moistened, make fine dust down for
sweeping floors. II is clean and will
not stain.
] Squeezed lemon skins are useful
for taking out ink and other stains
from wood also for cleaning enamel
saucepans
When running curtains on a rod
slip the finger of an old glove on the
from catching.
When you buy new tinware, rub
it we'll with lard and heat II thor
oughly in the oven. Tinware treated
thus will never rust
II paint spots stick to the window
panes do not use a knife to loosen
them. A cloth dipped in hot vinegar
will clean them perfectly.
In washing cream-colored cur
tains, use starch colored with tea sor
] coffee. or with yellow ochre If a
brighter color is desire.
Much time can be saved if there is
placed over the kitchen sink a strip
containing hooks upon which can be
hung all sorts Of utensils.
When the feet of stockings are
i worn out, cut them off and slit the
legs clear down. Sew several together
and use them to polish stoves.
Carpet or linoleum stains can be
treated with dried and heated saw
dust. Sprinkle on the spot leave il
for awhile, and then sweep off.
Milk is good cleaner for oil
cloth. and a good polish is a mixture
of beeswaN and turpentine, which will
preserve both the surface and the
color.
A burnt cake. but not done. shoulC
have burnt part removed, and place
covered with beaten egg and BROW
sugar. Stand cake on sieve whei
cooked.
, If stockings become stained fron
the leather or the inside of the shoes
' put one teaspoonful of borax in tn
water in which they are washed. Thi
3 removes the stains.
, When frying oysters. try addinl
little baking powder to the -four il
which they are rolled. The oyster
{ increase greatly in size. are puffy
. and altogether very delicious.
When you have little more mea
: on hand than you can use at once
t wrap it in heavy oiled paper aud la.
! it on the ice, turning it every day. B.
t this method it will keep sweet.
= and the seeds can be removed easily
r Eucalyptus oil will remove greas
{ spots from any kind of material with
out injuring it. Apply a little of IN