New Britain herald., 1915-03-27


 in the kitchen that there should be place provided to keep them out of the way. About foot above the kitchen table fasten upright to the wall two lengths of strong garter elastic, each strap measuring about fourteen inches in length. These straps should be placed about nine inches apart. Newspapers may be folded and slipped under these bands until needed for various purposes.
 Plant pests that eat the plant fEers cannot be killed with Paris green or hellebore sprinkled on the plants. These insects must be covered with 8 substance whtich will prevent them from breathing, or they must be subject to caustic that will shrvcl their bodies. To destroy these pests, rse soapsude made from the common laundry soap, to which kerosene has been added. Spray the plants every week. Dissolve the bar of soap in fifteen gallons of water by heating it; to this add one gallon of kerosene.
 The rinds trimmed off your break fast bacon make delicious f1avoring for soup or stews of any knd, and are
 
 Cover up the coals in the fireplace With ashes at night, and in the morn ing you will have a fine lot of live coals with which to start the fire.
 Vegetarian fats such as butter, vege- butter, vegetable lard, etc, are highly to be recommended on the score of economy; they take the place of butter, lard, and dripping in cook cry, and are perfectly pure and whole some. Many grocers and stores keep them at the present day, and, of course, all the vegetarian stores.
 Try making apple custard pie in the following way: Heat one cupful of milk in a double boiler; add to it the yolks of three eggs, a cupful of sugar a little nutmeg and a pinch of salt. When thickened, remove from the fire and whip in one cupful of sweetened stewed apples, beaten smooth. Fill baked shells and cover with meringue; brown in the oven.
 A faucet in the bottom Of the tub iii which the clothes are scalded is great convenience. After the clothes
  sufficient time, run the boiling water off and the clothes can be removed to the rinse water without scalding face and hands,
 Rhubarb is just coming into season, but it is a fruit that requires a lot of sweetening. A pinch of bicar- bonate of soda added to the rhubarb Cor any other acid fruit) when cook ing will neutralize a great deal of the tart taste, so that much less sugar will be necessary.
 If you brush the bottom of your kettle or saucepans every time they are used, the difference in the gas bill will be appreciable. If you have a gas cooker and acoal range as well, don't use the same utensils Tor both Use thin pans and kettles over gas; they heat quicker
 Picked walnuts are excellent with both grilled outlets and filleted steak, chopped gherkins and capers with veal outlets and archovies, scraped, boned and curled into neat rounds, are a pleasant addition to the last named dish All there acompanl- ments can be arranged as decoration.
 To remove the soiled marks from a brass bed, use a 7chamols very slightly dampened. Obstinate spots can be removed with a light applica- tion of prepared chalk.
 Do not throw away cake, no mat
 
 you bake a custard, slice it on top be- fore putting into the oven. This makes a delicious caramel crust.
 An excellent salad is made of raisins boiled and cooled, then mixed with chopped celery and apple. Sea- son with salt, cayenne and lemon juice, and serve on lettuce hearts.
 If smoked halibut alone has too strong a flavor, combine it with cod fish, Both should be faked, mixed and put into a pudding dish with cream sauce, then baked till brown.
 White or delicately colored fur niture should ont be washed with soap and water, but it should be cleaned with sifted whiting applied with s1 very slightly moistened. soft cloth.
 When the hot-water boiler gets too hot and makes a cracking noise re- lieve it by letting the hot-water faucet run for a time. This will relieve the pressure on the steam pipes. Dried orange peel is capital for drawing up a dying fire or even for lighting one, combined with a few sticks The peel may be dried in a cool oven or huner Dn in a net in