Show I I ISOME ll t SOME USEFUL HINTS 1 t 1 i iA A small piece of flue In wash I boiler will whiten clothes clot Molasses will remove move grass stains from clothing Fresh It mint will drive away those troublesome trou troublesome small red ants anUl Common yellow soap can b be used even more effectively than rubber mending tissue tissue sue to repair a torn place In a garment Wet tile the cake of soap sap rub It over a piece of the goods and after placing it smooth smoothly smoothly ly ly over oyer the rent press p with a moderately hot Iron IrolL Soap Sap will also a o temporarily stop a leak leakin in a gas pa pipe or in a wooden washboard Buy BIJ a large dish mop and use it for a duster It is much muck better than a feather duster which makes the dust fly Like a dry mop it collects the dust and can be shaken out Few people know how bow useful u bran is ill for cleaning For painted and varnished woodwork It is invaluable removing the th dirt cUrt without destroying de the finish Colored goods which usually fade when washed will not Dot lose color if It washed in bran water It Is ta excellent as A It scalp cleanser and Is good for the hair mak making makIng making ing it glossy arloss Used instead of soap it whitens and softens the hands To pre prepare prepare prepare pare bran water fill a small bag an ordinary salt wit bag baK Is excellent t for this pur purpose purpose purpose pose with bran place it in a pail cover with boiling water and it is la ready for use Dissolve H bar of or soap sap in 2 quarts of water Now add 2 tablespoonfuls of ot powdered pow powdered powdered dered borax bo and 2 I tablespoonfuls of spirits spir spirits spirita its ita of turpentine This makes a kind of transparent Jelly or soft soap sap To use have bave a cloth to spread some soap on then rub this over a space of paint am and have another an ther cloth and some me warm water to wash wh and wipe This Th l saves eaves a 8 lot of or drudgery and leaves the paint bright and clean cleanA A little alum added to the stove polish helps bel to keep the stove bright and shin I salt In the oven under baking tins Una will wil prevent pastry trout from fro scorching searching on Oft the bottom Put a pinch df t bicarbonate of soda in inthe inthe inthe the water W IT when boiling salmon This makes make it a beautiful red reel color Take rod cod liver oil in tomato catsup if you want to make It palatable A cloth wrung out nut ut of cold water put about the neck at night for tor a sore throat Batistas and organdies which do no not Dot I look well ell starched yet are limp without it should be rinsed in hi milk which will wll give hem them a ph want stiffness To prevent whit silk shirtwaists from yellowing wash wh them with cold coldwater coldwater water and aid al a pure white soap There re Is la nothing better for tor chapped hand hands than mutton tallow and will also alao keep k t J the hands hand nice and soft It may be rubbed on at any time Ume when the hands banda are aff dry dl but the best time is 18 when retiring retiring ing in and an old pair of soft large gloves thoroughly covered on the Inside with Hial parts of the tallow and glycerine molted melted together will give the most moet sat satisfactory satisfactOry tory results If I r f from any an cause your our finger is ia very vel painful try tr this remedy Heat some re refined refined refined fined spirits of turpentine In a granite cup and dip your finger r in it as IlS hot as you ran fin stand lItand it Repeat once in a while until relieved a true and tried 1 remedy When you ou churn for tor whipping cream try whipping It in a pitcher rather than in a bowl The work can be done dooe in half halt time When hen fresh meat comes from the butch butcher er and is in not desired for use uee at once ODee re to remove move it from the paper and put on a dish in the tbt ice box as the paper will absorb the juices juice Never Neer put meat directly on the ice i but always on a plate as dl di direct Feet contact with the ice will destroy Its Ita flavor To make the air in a sick alck room pleasant and aud to remove move all stuffiness a or disagree disagreeable dl able odors try the following Soak pieces of ot brown paper in saltpetre water and dry them when occasion requires put a piece in the coal scuttle throw some dried lav lavender lavender ender eDder flowers in and apply appl a match Dried orange peel burned on hot oot coals answers the same purpose e I Boiling several kinds of spice 8 in water in inan inan inan an open dish Is said to be a preventative tin tive against infectious or contagious mal real maladies malI adies Belies I For or white spots made on oak dining table caused by b a hot dish bold hold a hot bot iron a little above the marks but bat not Dot near enough to affect the varnish with withdraw withdraw withdraw draw the iron for a Ii moment to allow the v to cool than th n place It over the spot again and continue until the tile white spot disappears appears To clean light silks take a plateful of ot bran and put it into the oven When hen henI quite hot take it out and rond rub the silk to tobe tobe tobe I be cleaned with the th hot bran All dirty I marks will disappear dl ap ar from the silk and the cl silk Ik Ilk will wilt look like Ike new neww V w hon hen painting your woodwork the fol 01 iovine 0 list of colors colore will give you the re required tints Gray white lead Iou and lamp lampblack lampblack black buff white yellow ochre and red pearl Plarl white black and aDd blue olive olin yel yet yellow yellow low blue black and white chestnut red black and yellow chocolate raw umber l red and black lemon yellow and white |