Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-04
Notes and
Comment
OF Interest to Women Readers


An excellent substitute for cloth in
window washing is an old newspaper
or a channels skin, which should be
wrung from the water and passed
rapidly over the glasses.
II the house is infested with ants
dip a sponge into sweetened water
and lay 1t where they can get at it
They will soon cluster upon it and the
sponge can then be dropped in hot
water.
II a cake sticks TO the pan, turn
the pan upside down and lay on the
bottom OF it a cloth wee with cold
water. After about FIVE minutes the
cake can usually be removed quite
easily.
A simple method to soften hard
water is to boil 1t for quarter OF al
hour, pour 1t into an earthen jug, add
a quarter of an ounce OF common soda
to each two gallons, stir, and when
cold carefully pour off the clear wat
er.
Almost every one has the expert
ence, when filling and icing a layer
cake, of the layers slipping and slid
Ing, thereby causing an unattractive
looking cake when dry. If you will
stick two or even three Of the skew
ers used by butchers down through
the layers they will hold the cake in
place until set.
If your vegetables or preserves
scorch while cooking, advises a cook,
remove the vessel instantly from the
range and set 1t in a pan of cold wat
err, letting 1t remain there for ten or
fifteen minutes At the end of that
time you will find that the scorchei
taste has all vanished from the food.
When cooking cabbage, turnips, or
onions boil at the same time some vim
egar with few spices. This will de,
stroy all vegetable odor. When boil
ing a ham leave 1t in the water In
which it has been boiled until it is
quite cold This will make it juicy
and quite tender.
Jonquils and daffodils are placed to
advantage in brass or copper urn or
vase.
Stale macaroons, which can be
bought cheap at the bakers, make
the fastest addition to pudding and
custards IL pulverized and sprinkled
over the top.
1t is a good plan to keep the oven
door open part OF the time when net
In use, so that all traces Of gas or
odors of food may escape,
When apples have to be cored but
served whole. il is advisable to core
before peellng them, as they are then
less liable to break
Should you spill hot fat on the floor
or a wooden table, pour cold water
upon 1t at once. 1t can then be more
easily scraped off, not having had
time to sink into the wood.
Folding coat hangers that fit In n
flat leather case are useful for the
traveller, for whom also are designed
equally flat cases that contain folding
Pullman slippers Of soft leather.
Instead of always folding table.
cloths and sheets lengthways, it is an
excellent plan to sometimes fold them
the other way so that the folds viii
be changed.
Jam which has been laid aside lon9
and has got hard and sugary and un
fit for use can be made quite as gOor
as when new If 1t Is put into the ov
en- for little while till the sugal
melts and then left to cool.
If walnuts or any other kind OF nut
are packed in layers Of sand and KEEP
In a cool place they will keep fresl
for an indefinite period. Soak thep
in warm water for an hour before ug
ing IL you would have them peel a
II they had just been gathered fresi
from the tree.