Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-01-26
Useful Hints.

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article in cream of tartar and then lay
same in the sun.
Naphlha will remove paint from cloth
ing no matter how hard.
Borax will remove leather stains from
light colored stockings.
Get scent cheesecloth (bleached) for
curtaining windows.
A good tooth powder recommended
BY a dentist is equal quantities OF carbo-
nate of soda, borax and salt.
To drive away ants-absolutely de-
pendable-into 3.Ounce bottle OF
grain alcohol put 12 teaspoonful OF pow
dere6 corrosive sublimate. 1t will dis
solve at once. Get long handled cam
els hair brush that will 90 into the
bottle and paint ring about IL inch wide
around the sugar barrel, cake box, etc.
One application is sufficient. Put 1t out
of reach of children.
Get 10 cents worth of sub-carbouate oil
iron: take as much as will lie on dime,
mix with little cold water; take after
each meal and your WEAKNESS and uer-
vousness will soon disappear.
For a splendid furniture polish take
1-2 pint of good varnish, pint OF raw
linseed oil, IA pint alcohol. Shake well
before using. Do not tread or have dust
about for "a hours. Apply with fan,
mel cloth. Use sparingly.
Raw potato-juice is a valuable cleans
or. Ii will remove stains from the
hands and also from wooden fabrics.
When making soup or stews, If there
is too much flavor Of one particular
vegetable, q sprig of parsley added will
equalize the flavoring.
To ease q corn which Is often painful
from long standing, touch 1t with
little oil Of peppermint and the soreness
will be wonderfully lessened.
Used in water as daily gargle, borax
keeps the throat healthy. Used in water
for cleaning the teeth, 1t "disinfects
them and prevents their decaying.
If a email brass headed tack Is driven
into each lower portion of the picture
frames, it prevents the marks on the
walls that are 30 troublesome, as the
pictures are held from the wall frac.
ton of An inch, thus allowing the air to
circulate behind them.
Instead of peeling potatoes for steam
ing or boiling, simply cut narrow strip
entirely around the center of each one.
After being cooked, drained and dried,
in the ordiuay way, the potatoes slip
easily from the skins when tho opposite
ends are pressed between the thumb and
forehnger.
IL you desire to purchase box OF or.
snges and fear that they will not keep,
follow these Instructions: Remove each
orange and wipe it with q dry cloth;
then wrap with piece Of waved paper.
Place the oranges loosely In box OF
barrel and they will be preserved for
several months.
An easy way to boil macaroni Is to put
1t into wire flour sitter with a tin
handle and immense this in kettle oil
boiling water. When done the macaroni
is easily lifted from the water.
Cabbage will be more digestible II
when it is half cooked the water is pour
cd off and fresh boiling water added.
To make quick icing for cake, use
sweet cream and confectioner's sugar.
Six tablespoons cream and enough sugar
If spread nicely is plenty for medium.
sized cake. Good for layer or loaf cake.
1t can be made in five minutes and is
fine put on cold cake.
Pies should always be glazed with
white of egg IL you wish them to be
shiny brown.
Don't throw away the benzine or gaso.
line you have used for cleaning, no mat
ter how dirty 1t looks. Place in cover
ed jar, and in little while the dirt OF
sediment will settle at the bottom and
the benzine can be poured of and used
afresh.
The housekeeper who must do her
own dishwashing on cold days should
remember that a cut lemon kept conven-
lent and rubbed on the hands after each
dish WI ASKING will save her from rough
hands.
To test tea, burn small quantity on q
metal plate. With good tea the amount
OF ash remaining 10 small, increasing in
quantity as the quality OF the sample
tested deteriorates.
If you open a can of peaches and find
them fermented do not throw them
away. Heat them over. Sweeten q
little and make them into pie.
To remove hot water marks on polish
ed tables and trays make q thin paste of
salad oil and salt, leave it on the marks
for an hour, then polish with a dry
cloth.
When frying steak do not cook one
side first, then turn over and fry the 9TH
or. Just harden for second or two on
one side and then turn over and start
frying the other, and you will find what
a juicy steak you will have.
For oinder In the eye use medicine
dropper to draw 1t out.