Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1919 — OF INTEREST to the HOUSEWIFE [ARTICLE]

OF INTEREST to the HOUSEWIFE

Have play clothes for the children. • * * Never use for the skin anything but the purest soap. Canvas gloves when paraffined are useful in housework. To cool a hot dish in a hurry, place It in a vessel full of cold salt water. A little vinegar put to the water in which eggs are poached will keep them white and prevent them from spreading.

Place a large sponge in the bottom of your umbrella jar. * * * Soap rubbed on the screens and screen strips prevent sticking. • • * If with milk instead of water ipustard will not get dry, but will keep nice and fresh until it is all used UP - A good way to tell when ham H fried enough is by the fat. When the fat is brown (not burned) the ham is done. • • • If every farm home would keep asupply of pop corn and a popper convenient fewer nickels would be spent for less wholesome knickknaeks and more enjoyable evenings would be spent around the family hearth