HINTS THAT HELP

Lemons can be kept for weeks in cold water. Change water twice a week. This increases the juice.

Broken raw eggs can be kept several days by covering with cold water. When ready to use turn off the water.

To keep buckwheat batter sweet, in the morning after baking, pour cold water over the batter. In the evening pour off the water, which will be on top of the batter. The water excludes the air and keeps the batter sweet.

To keep bananas from turning dark in desserts and fruit salads, take a fork and cut them crosswise. They are not so smooth as when sliced with a knife, but retain their natural color a much longer time.

To keep lettuce fresh, make a "bouquet" of it, merely putting the ends of the lettuce in water, and it will keep for two or three days.

A piece of onion rubbed on gilt picture frames will remove fly specks immediately, and there will be no appreciable odor from the onion afterward.

Always keep a pair of scissors hanging in the kitchen for cut- ting celery, trimming meats, etc.

To keep the juice from oozing out of pies, take a strip of cloth about two inches wide, wet, and bind closely around the edge of the pie.

Use a knitting needle (keep clean and dry for the purpose) to try cake, instead of a broom splint.

Stale bread, if cut in slices, then laid together again, folded in a dampened napkin, slipped into a paper bag, and laid in a hot oven for fifteen minutes, will come out like fresh bread.

When using stale bread for puddings or dressing, always soak it in cold water. Hot water makes it heavy.

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Put a little kerosene in the water with which you wash windows and notice the shine.

Butter well the top of any kind of hot mush set away to cool, es- pecially for frying; it prevents a tough skin from forming.

To Wash Flannel Blankets — i cake good laundry soap (sliced) and 2 tablespoons powdered borax dissolved in a pail of warm water or enough to cover a pair of blankets. Set to soak a half hour ; then squeeze, but not rub, them until clean ; rinse well in warm water, and hang lengthwise on line without wringing.

To Prevent Quinsy — Drop one drop of pennyroyal on a lump of sugar and take it just before going to bed; also rub the throat with the oil. If one application does not cure, repeat it next night.

For Sick Headache — One teaspoon of finely powdered char- coal in a half tumbler of water.

Toothache: — Take equal parts of alum and salt pulverized to- gether; put on a small piece of cotton and insert in the tooth.

Cure for Boils — Isaiah, thirty-eighth chapter and twenty-first verse. Go thou and do likewise.

To Remove Grease Spots From Silks or Woolens — Scrape French chalk, lay it on the spot and put it away for twenty-four hours ; then rub lightly with a clean cloth, and if it still shows, re- peat the process.

Pieces of white wax laid in the folds of white flannel or Swiss muslin will prevent them from turning yellow.

To Preserve Potatoes Until, Spring — Put a quantity of powdered charcoal on the bottom of the potato bin ; it will preserve their flavor and prevent the sprouts from shooting out so early as they otherwise would.

Death to Insects — 2 pounds alum dissolved in 3 or 4 quarts boiling water and applied to all cracks and crevices will keep out ants, roaches, spiders, bed bugs, etc.

Cleaning Hair Brushes — Take a cup of corn meal and fill the brush, rubbing gently with the hand; as it absorbs the grease and

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dirt shake it out and use fresh meal till the brush is thoroughly cleansed. This is better than amonia, as there is no water to in- jure or loosen the back of the brush.

Hot water containing a little chloride of lime, poured into drains twice a week, will prevent all unpleasant odors ; or copperas water may be used in the same way.

To prevent pink or blue from fading, before washing, soak the article in one cup of vinegar to one gallon of water. Has been tried successfully.

When through baking with a soap stone griddle, rub it clean with sand paper.

Ham should be put to boil in cold water, also corned beef.

To prevent salt from becoming damp or hardening in the shaker, place a few grains of rice in shaker when filling.

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If poisoned, take mustard, or salt, tablespoon,

In a cup of warm water and swallow right soon.

For burns, try borax, and a wet bandage, too ;

If blistered, then oil and dry flannel will do.

For children's convulsions warm baths are the rule ;

With castor oil dose, too, but keep the head cool.

Give syrup of ipecac when croup is in store ;

For fainting stretch patient right out on the floor.

To soak in hot water is best for a sprain —

Remember these rules, and 'twill save you much pain.

Old stockings split open and sewed together make excellent dust- cloths.

When making lemon pies, instead of using cornstarch or flour, grate one potato to each pie and the pie will be delicious. The po- tatoes taste much like cocoanut, and the custard is thickened just enough.

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