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Household Hints

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Day
3
Month
July
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dissolve four ounocs of Paris white in ono pint of water; boíl it. and when cool add one OU nee oí ammonia This will make a good silyer uolish. Sulphur macthes placed in flowei1 pots, the sulphur t;nds down, havo been found to destroy the worms which are so fatal to house plant. A solution oí six gratos of chloride of tin and six grains of sulphato of copper dissolved in one quilrt of water will be useful in plating small articles with brass. For a square hall or a dining room in a country house .1 iladu of colored matting is veryeBoctive. !i should be surmonntcd by a shelf, ou which raay be arrayed any ceramic troasurea in the way of platea, oups, vasus and the like. To cause gnddle cakes to brown nicely, add a little molassus or eoñ'ee to the batter; and to bake ihcin without that blinding sruoke use a stone griddle, and simpiy rub it over with a (iamp olotli oaeh time before putting on cakes. Polish salad is verj easily made. Cut in very sn)all pieees any sort of baked or roost nieat (veal, mutton or beef,) add soft-boiled eggs and linelymincud onion, lettuce or cmlive. Mis all thoroughly with a dreasiog oí oil, vinegar, mustard and peppor, and serve. A chariuing panel for a square screen is made of plush of "old red" color, with conventionalized poppies in silk eiabroidery. ïhe doep red and the brilliaut llame color of the flowera, and the cool green of the foluige, are very effective upon the soft backgronnd. A very good sugar cake may be made by this recipe: One cupful of sugar and a tablespoonful of butter, mixed logether; two cnpfuls of ilour, two table spoonfuls of baking powder, one cupful of milk, a little salt and one well-beaten egg. Flavor wiLh nutmeg or lemon, and bake in a loaf. lry this recipe tor cooking cabbage: Boil the cabbage gentlj' until cooked, and drain ït. rut two ounce of butter iuto a saucepan; set it oü u good tire and, vvhen rneïted, put in the "cabbaafe with somc salt and pepper. Add half a pint of creain or milk and one teaspoonfu! of flonr, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Simmei1 until the sauce is reduced, and serve hot. Don't put elabórate brass grates in your rooms i.nless yon intend to use them. A showy brass grate unstained by srnoke or ashes suggosts in all its glittering newness a showroom and not a home. A hre place not conscorated to a fire, that has neither warinth boï suggestion of warmth, is a dreadiul sham; it is not artistic; it is not decorative; it kills rather than give8 pleasure. Coid meat may be used to advantage in the following way: Kub half apound of beef-drippijg into one-half pound of ilour, with a little salt. Moisten the paste with the water and rol] it out half au luch thick. Minee auy kind of cold meat, season it and add a few spoonsful of gravy. Spread the minced meat on tho paste and roll it up. Tie it up in a cloth buttered and üonred and boil for an hour and a half. To clean ind freshen old mattingrub t with a cloth wet in salt water, being careful not to allow any drops of water to dry in the matting, as they will leave spots diflicult to remove. Heavy varnished furniture should never rest directly upon the matting, for even good varnish, becomiug soft in warm weather, will stain the straw. Matting muy be turned if the loose ends of the cords are threaded in a largo needie and drawn through to the other side. Don't hang upon your vvalls hugo black cngravings set iu vast spaces of white margin. Picturea of tliis sort are very depressing. Instead of white margina substituto a gra.y paper, and if you must have black prints select thosu that have a good deal oí gray in them - pictures with tone and raellow effects Elchings corunionly have more softness and artistic efl'ect than engravings. Don't hang chromos on your wall, or colored prints; don't display long linos of family photographs; don't hang mosses or colored leuves or dried grasses about. You can irou a table cloth so as to have a good center piece to put your llower poe or glass of cut liowers on. Fold the cloth, whether square or oblong, in four, so that the center shall be in the doubled corner at your left hand. Begin at tliis eorner and turn over about an inch, oreasing it sbarply and pressing tlie iron ilrmly down on it. Then move this fold forward on the cloth and crease another half inch, not doubling under tlie part already ironed, but making a fresh crease. So proeeed until you have a8 large a center-square as you wish. You can vary the distan eo giveu to acjommodate the thioknesa of your cloth. Au excellent rice pudding is made by this recipe: Wash tour ounces of rice in cold water and set it on the lire with a pint of railk and the rind of half a lemon. When uearly done, if (heiniik be absorbed by the rice, add a little more, .o that the riee may be nearly covered with it. Whcn done, remove it from the lire and mix with it two tablespo nfuls of sugar, two ounces of butter, two tablespooDfuls of inilk, three yolks of eggs, a pincb of salt, and, if liked a very little nutmpg. Put back on the fire for a minute, stirring constantly. Butter amold well and dust it with sugar, and turn the nee iu it. Base in :i niooerate oven for half an hour. Serve with a sauce.

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