Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — Hints to Housekeepers. [ARTICLE]

Hints to Housekeepers.

Put salt on the hot clinkers in your stove or range after raking down the Are, and it will remove them. Orange peel dried and grated makes a yellow powder that is delicious tor favoring cakes and puddings. Flint glass ground to a powder and mixed with the white of ah egg makes one of the strongest cements known. Galvanized articles may be cleaned by a solution of one part of borax to eight parts of water. Rub on Xvell with a brush. To remove bit 9 of paint from window glass, put some soda in very hot water and wash the glass with it, using soft flannel One of the easiest ways to catch up a superfluity of water on your color picture is to lay on a clean sheet of blotting paper. Dark brown sugar slowly dissolved in a little water on the stove furnishes a syrup scarcely inferior to the product of the maple. Peel off the yellow skin of a lemon, rejecting the white, cover with alcohol and in a few days a pure lemon extract will be ready for use. Wet boots and shoes may (be kept from shrinking out of shape when drying, if, as soon as taken off, they are tightly stuffed with newspapers. If the stovepipes are found to be rusted when taken down, rub thoroughly with lard. The good pipes may also be preserved in the same way. Oilcloths should never be washed in hot soapsuds; they should first be washed clean with lukewarm water, then rubbed dry with a cloth wot :a milk.