Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1914 — AROUND THE HOUSE [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE HOUSE

To scale fish quickly dip them in boiling water. It you have a chimney that does not draw well, open the windows in the room for ten minutes before the Are is lighted, and see if that will not help the draft Gold lace on embroidery can be cleaned by 'brushing it clean of dust and then rubbing powdered plum well Into it. Leavie this on for several hours, and when you brush it off the tarnish will be gone. To make the windows bright and shining, add a small quantity of bluing to the water when you are washing them. • / 4 Sheets of tinfoil placed under dollies upon which glasses, pitchers .or vases of water are set will prevent the dampness from soaking through and staining polished tables. t r Warm a lemon before squeezing it and you will obtain nearly double the quantity of juice. • In washing delicate laces never use starch, but if a slight stiffening is desired two lumps of sugar in a basin of warm water will give all that is needed.