Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — Good Hints. [ARTICLE]

Good Hints.

Pipsy Potts, in Arthur’s, is full of hints, all helping tired housekeepers to lighten their work : About squash. Did you ever fry any? I cooked some that way to-day, and it was nice. Take a summer squash, cut it up in slices, roll it in flour and fry in a spider in hot butter. Salt and pepper it; and if you like fried oysters you’ll like this. Two other things. Take your board that you scour knives on and nail it firmly, so that it will be stationary, near bhe table where you wash dishes. You don’t know, unless you’ve tried, how much labor it saves; for if at any time you use a knife, just step right there and rub it over with the scouring material. I use bath brick and a large cork. And you wouldn’t do this if you had to go to some cupboard, take down the board, and afterward have to put it back again. --- I learned something from a little twelve-year-old girl who worked for me last winter that I never thought of before. She was scrubbing and mopping in the pantry and got too much water on the floor; and how did she go to work to get it up but take the dustpan and scoop it up with that, and then wipe the flodr nicely with the mop. How much better that was than wringing out the mop ten or a dozen times, until your hands are almost blistered and your back almost broken.