Household Hints

To chop an onion without crying, drop it in a bowl of water and cut ït across under the water. White Cake - Whites of four eggs,ono cupful of white sugar, one-half cupful sweet niilk, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, lemon extract and two cupfuls of flour. Coffee Costará - One pint strong coflee, one pint milk, boiled together, six eggs beaten wiih a cup and a half of sugar; bako in a moderately hot oven, but do nol lioil. Matton Kidneys - These make a good breakfast dish, if sliced thin and broiled quickly on a wire gridiron; they are o.xtra nioe if sliced, run on a spit, and then broiled on a wire gridiron, which sliould be buttered. Covers for sniall tea trays are soalloped around the. adgoe aml" Uien buttonlioled wil li scarlet, brown or blue, with little figures in tbc center, or corners are worked in the samo color that is chosen for the border. Cheese unielet - Beat up three eggs and add to them a tablespoonful of milk and a tablespoonful of grated cheese; add a little more clieese before folding; turn it out on a hot dish; grate a littlo cheese over it before serving,- The Cook. To Keep Cheese Fresh- When purchased in small quantities keep what is not cut for the table rollud in a damp cloth in a wooden or tin box; you must protect the box inside with a coating of bardware paper, that the damp cloth may not rust it. Sponge faded plnsb garments with chloroform. It restores the color. It also takes a good deal of chloroform iinless the bottle is very quickly restopped and you apply it quickly. For tliis reason a eheaper art iele than the chloroform used for inhalatlon ean be used, and is said to be as effecüve. Flannel Cake-i- One teacupful boiled rice, flour to make a pancake batter.two eggs, one quart of milk, tliree teaspoont'uls baking powder; mix in the same "MnAQ .„wc. .p 'k.va"fciit"-gegreasing and makes a very light and wholesome cake. - Caterer Beefsteak To:ist - Chop cold beefsteak very fine, :ill a small piece of butter, a little pepper and salt and a little gravy if at hand. If not, add for one pint of chopped meat, one tcaeup of water; heat meal anti! hot, then place a spoonful or two upou pieces of toast which have been soaked and wcll buttered. - The Cook. Said to be a good fornitura polish; One ounce of white wax, one ounce of yellow wax, one-half ounce of white soap and one pint of boiling water. Melt altogether in i sancopan over th iire and pour into a bottle. Apply it. by rubbing a little on a small space with a cloth of any kind; rub with a second cloth and polish with a third. White Pound Cake - Ono cup line tvIiUo oupjar and a half cup of butter; beat both t ■ ■ ■ ' ' ■ ' c two ergs, then beat ten minutes; one teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon _j.i, luuoviif ovveei milk, one nul a half cups flour, one teaspoon lemon extract; beat all together bfteeu minutes. IJake one hoor in a moderate oven. Baked Hnsli - Take any kind of cold meat and chop t not very iine. To one pint of the chopped meat add one-half as imieh cold maslicd potatoes, two tablespoonfuls of bread erumbs, the sanie quantity of butter. Moisten all with a half cup of water; season with sall :ind pepper and bake half an hour. Do not uso too deep a dish to bake it in. Drled grasses may be made beautiful by dipping them in analine dyes of varii ous colors. The f rost touched goldenrod may have its prístino color restored, anii the nfth raas may have great beauty by beingdipped.in blue, green, crimaon and tuaxf óther eolored solutions of these brilliant dyes. The bobs of the suiuae wil] have its hues deepencd and set by being immersed in a bath of copperas water. A pretty wall-splasher is made of white oanrassi embroidored in silk crew] in two shades are fringèd anti fastened to the wall by four bows of light and dark ribbon to match the work silk, placed one at each corner. Toilet mats are made lo match. A very pretty séi is of deep gray crash, worked in ge&weed design, whioh borders the table cover and ends of ornamental towels, but appears in the center of toilet mats, and covers nearly thewhole of the splashcr. Ilominy cakes- Boil two teacupfuls of. small hominy nntil it is soft enough lo masli with a spoon; add au eqaa] quantity of com meal, with one tablegpoonfnl of botter (tnelted in) and a teaspoonfnla of salt. Beatthree eggs -ight, add Ilicm, with milk enougli to make a batter just tliin enough lo pour; beal all together nntil it i very lip;ht, and bakc cilhcr in small griddle cakes oras watllcs. VVIien eggd can not be procured use more milk astead, euid half a teacnpful of yeasl, setting the batter to rise three or four hours before it is to bc baked. - Catcrer. A verv efTeotive ornamentation for a small' sofa is made by Èakiogastripof satin plustai or of velvct. about üve inchea widc. and nc.arly tho length of the sofa Hsclf; on this embroidcr a vine in sonie distinet and quite open work pattern. VThen this is done put a narrow strip of similar material, but of a difteront eolor, around it as a plain border. Line it with a stiffcloth, and apply it to the sofa with unseeii and immovable pins. It should not be placed in tho center of the seat, but bc drawn forward so that it is just above the pnfl" or band of plush which (inishes the sofa cushion.