Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — Hints to Housekeepers. [ARTICLE]

Hints to Housekeepers.

A creaking hinge Can be cured by the use of a black-lead pencil of the softest number, the point rubbed into all the crevices of the hinge. Keep large squares of thick pasteboard hung conveniently to slip under pots, kettles, stewdishes and spiders whenever you set them down. To extinguish the flame, should the oil in a kerosene lamp accidentally take fire, throw over a woolen bl naet,, a rug, a piece Of carpet, shawl or any other wolleu iabric at hand. Jewelry can be male to look like 1 new by washing with ammonia and water or alcohol, then rub, drying and polishing with prepared chalk applied with flannel or chamois skin. If, be ore grinding the morning’s coffee, the berries are heated lor four or five minutes, or until they take on a dm ker shade of brown, the flavor ol the coffee will be, much improved. Always mix starch in cold water untill free from lumps; pour on boiling water, stirring well until of the proper consistency; boil ten minutes, add a little iard, butter or shavings ol spermaceti or prepared gum arubic; then cool. For washing red table linen, use tepid water with a little powdered borax, which sets the color. Wash the linen seperately and quickly in weak suds. Rinse the tepid water containing a little boiled starch. Hmg in the shade,, and iron when nearly dry, Mittens may be made easily and look neat by knitting one 1 stitch plain and purling one alternately. They are nice made of black or any color o Saxony. Stockings knit of soft woolec yarn, with two stitches plain and twt purled alternately, fit well and are warm. « •