Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — AROUND THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE HOUSE.

Salt upon the clinkers in the stove, while they are hot, will loosen them without difficulty. After peeling onions rub the hands with celery or mustard and the odor will be entirely removed. Charcoal is of great value in keeping ice-chests, store-rooms and food sweet. Place a shallow dish of fine charcoal in the ice-chest. In milk-rooms and other rooms where food is kept, set dishes of charcoal. If poultry or birds are to be hung in a cool room for a few days, remove the internal organs and partially fill the body with charcoal. Now wrap the birds in paper and hang up. If the outside of the poultry is rubbed with black pepper, before being covered by the paper, it will be still further protected from flies. Smell birds, livers, kidneys, sweetbreads, etc., may be wrapped in paraffine paper and then be bnried in a bed of charcoal. There are some men who have to be knocked down first and argued wit! afterwards.—[Atchison Globe.