Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1903 — ALL OVER THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ALL OVER THE HOUSE.

A Few Useful Hints That Careful Housekeepers Will Appreciate. Use a long handled brush $1 cleaning the walls or, more properly, a long handle ending in a wte frame covered by a lamb’s wool bast which may be slipped off and beate&i and washed. Paint should never be scrubbed! but wiped with a soft woolen clo(n di r ’ped in warm water. A sligj® touch of sand soap may be used 1) a stubborn stain. Dry with a of flannel cloth after a good ing. \ To clean swansdown mak& A warm lather of soap and them gen A squeeze the down in it until it Ss quite clean. Binse in fresh coff? water with a little bluing in it. Afterward shake the water out aou hang in the air to dry. Alcohol will remove grass state from linen with -very little rubbi^ffi If you value your eyesight, have any room lighted, by a gUrA unshaded light, especially from head. Lights should he that there shall be no glare. If bread has been baked up brown, or if the crust has bosif blackened in an oven made too hot, do not attempt to ctit off the blacp with a knife. As soon as the loav®i are cold go over'them with a coan®? grater.

Several green coffee beans left soak in the unbeaten white of egg will color cake icing a delicate green. The beans should be removed and the egg whipped and used for the icing. Garnishing of hard boiled eggs tn basket shape may he accomplished by cutting off straight the ends of the hard boiled eggs and across through the center. Take out t&g yolks from the upper parts and fIU them to a pointed shape with » salpicon of vegetables cut in small squares and combined with a littte mayonnaise or simply fill them witTt jelly. Substitute For Linoleum. The following directions are en for a homemade substitute fsr linoleum on the kitchen floor: Tai> any old carpet that is whole, but txj) shabby for use, clean thoroughly and tack it down smoothly on tt|o kitchen floor. Then make a goo& thick boiled starch of flour ami writer. Rub a coat of this starch fti the carpet with a whitewash bruah and in about twenty-four hours dr when the starch is thoroughly diy give it a coat of paint, any color desired. Dark red is a desirable color for a kitchen. When the paint is dry, give a second coat, and you w 0 have a cheap and durable floor cohering, equal to linoleum, at about one-fourth the cost. By giving it a coat of paint once a year it will last for years. Bogus Maple Sirup. An agricultural exchange giveo full instructions for drawing tho sap and making maple sirup and maple sugar. These products aro not made from maple sap except in a few New England localities. Muplo sirup is made from glucose, sorghum sirup, hickory bark and other flavoring substances, and the sugar is made from cheap Muscovado similarly flavored. New England alono could consume three times as much maple sirup and maple sugar as aro made from maple 6ap in all tho United States, and 99 per cent of all that is so made is consumed in the states where so made.