Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1912 — HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS

A dry bread crust will dean your dock face, oil, paint, pictures or wall paper. It will take flyspeckg off without taking the color out. Save the tongs that come in candy boxes. You can hull strawberries with them and you 'won’t soil your fingers. A toothbrush and a little naphtha will clean your velvet coat collars and make them look new again. If your pincushion is made of sawdust put all your needles r overhead in the cushion till you want them. You will find they will he bright, as they often grow rusty to leave them In paper. Most people sprinkle fried apples with sugar just before serving. Try using salt' instead and see what an entirely different flavor Is given to the dish. White enameled kitchen ware can be kept in first class condition if occasionally it is put into a large vessel of cold water to which a tablespoonful of lye has been added. Put on the stove and allow It to come to a. boll; then wash the kettles in the usual way. Unbleached muslin makes an excellent cover for the Ironing board. H two or three pieces, cut and hemmed to fit, are kept at hand, there will at ways he a fresh cover ready in case of mishap. Select large prunes, soak them over night and then remove the pits carefully; stuff each prune with nut meat, roM in sugar and serve as one would stuffed dates. In order to clean bronze the article should be immersed in boiling water, then rubbed with a piece of flannel dipped in yellow soapsuds and dried with a soft cloth and chamois leather. Pine pillows should be made of butcher’s linen. This Is to be preferred to the color linens for the oil In the pine will strike through In time and necessitate a thorough washIng. - ' ■AJtar'Wßhmr'ffQiStefs diJWem’E' kerosene and dry in the open air. This makes an excellent home-made "dustless” duster. Dry moss may he similarly treated with good effect.