Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — Household Hints. [ARTICLE]

Household Hints.

vVhiting wet'vith aqua ammonia will cleanse brass from stains, and is excellent for polishing faucets and doorknobs <if brass or silver. Ham relish may be made by seasoning highly with cayenne pepper a slice of dressed ham, then broiling it, and adding butter, mustard, and a little lemon juice. Salt will curdle milk, therefore in preparing milk toast, sauce, scrambled eggs or anything of which milk is the foundation, do not add the salt till the pan has left the tire. Try this recipe for a pie:’ The pulp of one lemon, chopped fine, with half u cup of raisins; add two tablespoonfulr of flour, one cup of sugar and one ov water. Bake between two thin crusts. Baking powder and soda biscuits should be put into warm pans, and baked in a quick oven; a little warm water rubbed over them just before putting into the oven will give them a nice color. r ' K»--To remove fruit stains from a cambric handkerchief or other white goods, dip the stain in boiling milk; if this is not effectual, apply a very weak solution of chloride of lime, being careful to boil lhe handkerchief afterward. t Typhus fever is marked by short, delirious, broken dreams. Scarlet fever by realistic dreams, excited by surroundings. Remittent fever by l,ong, delirious, painful dreams. Herein ate suggested some suitable points in diagnosis. ( The fat of chickens is said by a cake maker of great experience to be superioi to the firn Letter for making Hie most delicab' e;ike. If the fat of boiled ebiakens tqj>e used. qqqA

out salt, ana mere wm not oe int slightest flavor of fowl. Keep a pin-cushion in the kitchen? If none is at hand, a pin picked up i laid on the window-sill, or stuck in the dress, to fall, perhaps, into the next batch of bread kneaded. Each child should be taught to pick, up everv pin it sees and put it in its proper place. Potato Sofflet.—Bake the potatoes, cut .off one end, take the inside out, saving the skin: masii the potatoes with grated Parmesan cheese, butter, „salt. pepper d mustard, and replace in the skin and bake, standing them upright in a dish. A capital savory for alter dinner. An excellent and simple disinfectant for sinks and waste pipes is made bv mixing,one large tablespoonful of copperas with one quart of boiling water. This solution is odorless and deodorize instantly. The cop’ieras may be bought at any druggist s for eight or ten cents a pound. The lunch i.iid meals, gotten up by Antrim are attracting a patronage 4 o that establishment highly appreciated by the proprietor t hereof. Antrim says his aim will be to deserve it. We call attention of our readers to an advertisement of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company in another column, and we take pleasure in recommending to the general public a company whose Organs have attained a popular reputation for their superior musical qualities, artistic beauty, and general excellence. This company ranks among the largest and bes in the United States, having capacity for manufacturing 1200 Organs per month, and its organs are shipped into nearly every inhabit able portion of the globe. The members composing the firm of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company are men of experience, in tegrity, skilled in their con duct their business on an equitable basis, and their future is destined to be a bright one. —... Buy o-ercoats for your boys at Ralph Fendg’s. He has a splendid stock, go (I goe.ls, t the lowest figures.