Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Grease may be removed from woollen goods bv sponging it with strong, cold coffee. Pine laces may be cleaned by packing tbem in wheat flour and allowing them to remain twenty-four hours. Black silk may be renovated by a thorough”sponging with stale beer, then placed bet ween newspapers and pressed with a, hot iron. One cooking-school teacher says the making of bread whitens, develops and strengthens the hand, and that really there is no better manicure than kneading the dough. Two sheets of newspaper wrapped about ice will keep it half as long again as ice that is- uncovered. The paper' is much more cleanly than a blanket, and can be renewed every day. Any woman doing her work may so systematize it that it will be the easiest possible for her. She need not follow any other persons methods, unless they are the very best for her own conditions. Do not hinder the beauty of a good picture by grouping it with a number of trivial or even of equally good ones. Give it space in which to Bhine by itself. Other objects beside pictures also detract from them. Gingham, both the silk and cotton, will be worn as much as ever the eomiug season, and the quality is almost as tine as linen. The colorings are exquisite, and are warranted to wash. Among new designs for the spring season is a circular velvet cape with a vest of brocaded satin or silk, or braided cloth. The cape is gathered in a full ruche round the neck and held dti either side of the throat hand with huge buckles. Ladies are to wear white linen collars with colored shirts precisely as gentlemen wear them. The cuffs, bowever, are of the colored cotton. The high, straight standing collar is preferred in linen, but those turned over will also be worn. Stiffly starched shirt bosoms like those of last year are offered again, and are especially appropriate with the white linen collars. TkeTavorite colorings7>F”tKe last London drawingroom were light blue, light yellow and a rich red peach, but many black gowns were diversified by linings or trimming of the most resonant poppy color or grass green. White satin trimmed with lace and fur was mueh worn with velvet trains; velvet and brocades, which appeared to bo very old-fashioned, were the two favorite styles for trains. It is advisable that one should have one petticoat to be used exclusively for walking, and this may be faced for some distance from the bottom with a w terproof cloth. There will then be almost perfect protection for the feet and ankles in wet weather. It is the swishing 6f damp clothing about the feet that constitutes most of the discomfort of a rainy dry expedition, and the waterproof lining does away with this.

A good way to modernize a plain belted waist of last summer is to give it a blouse effect by trimming the front with three lengthwise bands of ribbon two inches wide overlaid with white guipure or with open embroidered insertion. Start the longest band at the throat, letting it hide the fastening of the waist and make it droop two inches below the top of the .belt, then be brought back and inside the belt. The two other bauds start near the top of the shoulder seam, and go into the belt without drooping so much as that in the middle. These represent box plaits very prettily. Eg ,'s are the latest fad with women It has become a common sight at leading ladies’ restaurants in the shopping districts to see whole regiments of women file past the man at the counter busy breaking eggs in wine glasses. The beverage is then tossed down in a single swallow. The eggs are mostly taken “straight,” but sometimes they ara seasoned with salt and pepper, which gives them just about the taste, of a nice fat oyster. This new fad has at least the merit of being sensible. Raw eggs are well known to be nourishing and healthful. As a touic they are unequaled, ami undoubtedly it is for this reason that they have won the appreciation of the shopping woman.

Some of the women writers ought to give a few of the inside facts with regard to the multitude of sins, brie* a-brac and dry goods which are sometimes covered by those huge loose cloaks which the women are wearing now. In the shopping districts it is said these cloaks are causing no end of trouble to theshoDde* tictives, and on account of these cloaks orders hfive been issued at the Fifth Avenue that all the framed photographs of Mr. Crane which appear in the lobby must be attached to a string. Until Monday night a large photograph of Mr. Crane in a handsome frame was exhibited in the lobby. -The photograph rested on an easel, and after the performance it was always surrounded by a bevy of admiring women. When last seen, on Monday night, two women, each wearing one of those balloon cloaks, stood in front, of it exclaiming, “Is’nt it lovely!" Ti\e women, the cloaks and the photograph made their exits at the same time. The mixture of cotton and wool in the manufacture of cloth has been learned so thoroughly that feeling will not detect the presence of cotton. Apieeeof the goods boiled in a solution of caustic potash wiU leavs only the cotton fiber intact. ' v 7 * ‘ ~' -j '