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Household Hints

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Squeeze the juice of an orange and '■ gírate a little nutmeg in the lemonade just before pouring it into the glasses. There is a rotary upholstery brush that comes for cleaning button indentations in furniture and mattresses that will fill a long feit want and prove invaluable to housekeepers. The water in which potatoes have been boiled is very effective in keeping silver bright. It can be bottled for use, and if required to be kept a long time, a tenth part of methylated spirits will do this. Baked bananas make a delicious luncheon dish. The skins should be removed and the fruit sprinkled generously with brown sugar. They should then be placed in a buttered tin or pie dish and baked until soft. Serve cold, around a blanc mange. 'Don't forget that a mistake in wall covering sdoíU the effect oí any room. Don't foave a cold background for your pictures - blue or gray for instance - j unless the room is very sunny. Have j a dado in too high-ceilinged rooms, and a striped paper to increase the ap parent height in a low room. A gooJ warm shade on the walls gives a chance to hang etchings, sketches, piaster casts, etc., considerad so deBlrable nnw.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat