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Show Household Hints. Rugs should never be shaken by the ends , as it frays them. As soon as they show signs of raying, bind the ends and turn under a little deeper. If the parlor is small and one cannot have an open fire, the next best thing is to have a growing plant in the room to give it a cheerful, inviting appearance. When meat is to be roasted it should be put into a hot oven at first to sear it on the. outside, then add a little water with drippings and lower the temperature. To prevent omelet from sticking' the pan should be wiped with paper, then with a dry, clean cloth every time it is used. It should never be washed. A little vinegar cooked with prunes will improve their flavor. Oriental designs for any kind of fancy work are the latest and most popular ones. They are especially effective ef-fective for sofa pillows. Bits of cold vegetables may be converted con-verted into a palatable vegetable hash." Drain off all dressing and cut the vegetables veg-etables into small pieces. Melt a lump of butter into a fryingpan, add a little boiling water, pour in the vegetables and heat through. Delicate ginghams should be soaked for half an hour in salt water before washing to prevent their fading. A substitute for cream may be made by beating the white of an egg, with a teaspoonful of sugar and a very little 1 water; put it into the cups before the coffee is poured into them. A very delicious salad dressing for those who do not like the taste of oil is: One beaten egg and one teaspoonful each of sugar, salt and mustard, rubbed smooth. Add eight teaspoonfuls of vinegar, vin-egar, .and cook in a double boiler to a thick custard. After takings from the fire thin to the proper consistency of cream. The disagreeable smell produced by cabbage in the process of cooking may be got rid of if a piece of breadcrumb (the soft part of a loaf of bread), tied in a fine white rag, is placed in the , saucepan with the water. After this has been on the fire a quarter of an hour it should be taken out and thrown ' into the fire. In making a hard pudding sauce, add , sugar gradually to butter, and it. will get smooth much quicker. Use five ' times the amount of butter to sugar. i Add at the last one teaspoonful of white of egg or a little cream. If a pink sauce is desired, a little currant Jelly or strawberry juice may also be beaten in with the butter and sugar. ' In choosing celery for salad select the -solid, close, clean and white stalks, " with a large, close heart. For soups, inferior stalks, the leaves, and even the seeds, answer every purpose. Before sending to the table reject any stalks that are green and tough. Let the white, tender leaves nearest the heart remain. |