Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Spread cloths over cucumber pickles la keep them under brine. They keep better if treated thus. The surplus heat wasted from a common stove will, if conducted through a drum into another room, warm the room almost as much as a stove would, and will compel the fuel to do double duty and give nearly double results. The brilliant colors of autumn leaves may be preserved by dipping the stems in melted yellow beeswax. The leaves should be well dried. By piercing the leaf near the stem with doubled thread wire you can weave them on coarse wire, or on large cord, into any description of garlands. Crackers.—Take one large capful of bread dough, very light, roll it out on your molding-board; then spread on it a piece of butter and lard together, as large as a goose egg ; dredge a little flour over it, fold it up and pound it with something heavy a long time; take a small piece at a time, roll out very thin, stamp with a clock key and bake quickly.— Rural New Yorker. An open fire with a large chimney throat is the best ventilator for any room; the one-half or two-thirds of the heat carried up the chimney is the price paid for immunity from disease; and large though this seems from its daily draft on the woodpile or coal-bin, it is trifling when compared with doctors’ bills and with the loss of strength and efficiency that invariably results from living in unventilated apartments.—Col. Waring, in October Atlantic.

Cheese Fritters. —Slice thin a halfdozen large, tart apples, and prepare as many thin slices of cheese. Beat up .one or two eggs, according to the quantity required, and season high with salt, mustard and a little pepper. Lay tbe slices of cheese to soak for a few moments in the mixture, then put each slice between two slices of apple, sandwich style, and dip the whole into beaten eggs, then fry in hot butter, like oysters, and serve very hot. These fritters are an addition to any breakfast-table. Vert pretty house rugs are made from the ravelings of odd pieces of Brussels and other carpets. Odds and ends of carpets may be purchased at carpet stores and the little ones of the household given the task of raveling such remnants. The threads or fiber should be cut in strips about four inches long, doubled and knit together with cotton twine. Rugs made in this way are coming into very general, use. They are very expensive when purchased at the carpet stores in New York city, as the work of making them is slow. To ladies who have leisure, the work of making these useful and ornamental articles is a pleasant and easy task.