Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

I Always serve olives on crushed ice in a pretty dish. Vinegar improves with keeping and should be bought In quantities. Lemon juice will bring out the flavor of fish better than anything else can.

If a lump of butter is put into the saucepan while boiling rice there will be no boiling over. ,< Cauliflower will be much better and richer if it is boiled in half and half water Instead of all water. I Velveteen makes capital polishing cloths, so save old pieces from dresses for the purpose. It is easily washed in a soap lather. Nail stains may be removed from wood by scrubbing the wood with a solution of oxalic acid, half a pint of acid to a quart of boiling water. ♦ To wash white silk use lukewarm I water and nothing but pure white soap, and iron with just a warm iron. It is the yellow soap, too hot water and too hot irons that make the silk turn yellow.