Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — AROUND THIS HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THIS HOUSE.

Keep flowers fresh by pattix* a pinch 9f soda iu the water. Boil the clothesline and it will mat “kink” ns a ne w rope is apt to da. Keep a small box filled vtii time is your pnutry or cidlay, it will keep Aha air dry and pure. Soda is the best thing for efraaing tinware; apply with a damp cloth nail rub well, then wipe dry. Prick jiotatoes before taking «> that the air can escape. This will present their bursting in the oven. When baking cakes set a dish of water in the oven with them and they will not be iu any danger from s earthing. Grouse spots that have burnt and be como hard on the stove may be removed! by a few drops of kerosene oil on the cloth before rubbing them.