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Show HINTS FOR THE HOUSEKEEPER. HOUSE-KEEPER. Bits of Soap. There is next to nothing in the kic- ' chen that need be wasted if the housekeeper house-keeper will .but watch the odds and ends. There is a legitimate use for almost every left-over, and the amount of money saved in the course of a year by taking care of the little things is simply astonishing. Many bars of soap may be economized by keeping the fag ends of the bars. There should be a convenient receptacle recept-acle for them on the pantry shelf. When enough have accumulated, put them into a granite pan, with all the scraps of scouring soap, and barely cover with boiling water. Allow the mixture to stand on the back of the range for several hours, keeping hot, but not boiling. Then pour the jelly-like jelly-like mixture into a rather deep dish. When it is cold it will resolve itself into two layers. The lower one will prove to be the best scouring material that ever came into the kitchen. The upper one may be cut up into bars of convenient size. Bits of toilet soap may be treated in the same manner. They may be moulded or simply poured out into a shallow vessel and cut up into squares. They should ibc stood on edge in a dry place to harden. This toilet soap has several decided advantages over cheap soap fromi the drug store. And1 then it may have any fragrance the housekeeper desires. She has but to add a few drops of her favorite perfume per-fume to the mixture. Gasoline. This is a good thing to have in the house or better, in the coal shed but it must be handled judiciously. There is no reason why there should be dreadful gasoline explosions, resulting re-sulting in fire and death, if thcuser will but mix the fluid with a little common sense. t is highly inflammable, inflam-mable, and if used' in a closed room, the vapor may creep along the floor, under a door and so reach a source ol fire. The explosion may .take 'place in the adjoining room. If possible, gasoline should always be used in the open air. Then there is no possible danger. In the winter it may be used in a" firclcss roomi with the windows open so as to carry all the vapor out into the open air. It is wiser to put off the gasoline washing until the weather is warm. For cleaning kid gloves, put the gloves on the hands and wash them just as if the hands were bare. Most of the stains will conic out in the first washing. Have ready a second bowl of gasoline. Rub one hand lengthwise length-wise with the other irtitil as much as possible of the dirty gasoline has been pressed out. Then wash the hands in the fresh gasoline. Dry the gloves, while still on. the hands, with a soft towel. Remove them and hang them up in a strong current of air for at least two days. They should be turned wrong side out. When all the odor of the gasoline is out of them, turn them, draw out the fingers, lay the gloves in a satchct "box, between sheets of tissue paper, and they will be as good as new. Delicate fabrics that are likely to shrink, change color or lose their fine texture by the ordinary process of washing, may be perfectly cleaned in gasoline. Many a housewife has truncd up her nose in disgust at the mention of gasoline for washing silk waists, saying "Oh, yes I've tried it, and the things came out of the washing wash-ing all streaked and the real soiled places untouched." This is what happens if tkc housewife house-wife docs not know how to use gasoline. gaso-line. If the fabric is badly soiled, the spots and streaks should be rubbed with dry ivory soap. The vessel in which the garments are put to soak-must soak-must be one with a tight cover. They should be completely immersed in gasoline and left over night. In the morning they must be washed thoroughly thor-oughly with the hands, rinsed in fresh gasoline and hung up in the breeze until all the odor is gone. Whci they have been pressed Ihcy will look-like look-like new. There is another use for gasoline which must not be mentioned in polite society. It is absolutely fatal to the H crniin that, once in a while, find' their H way into even the most carefully kept B homes. The infested bed should be H thoroughly saturated at least twice, at fl intervals of about a week. A third Hf application will do no harm. If the B pests have invaded the woodwork of I a room, the fluid should be poured B into all the cracks. It is instantly B fatal to all the living insects. The B second deluge, to be administered in E from three days to a week, is for B those that have hatched in the mcan- B time. Gasoline is also a gooi gcrmi- B cidc. If the clothes that have been used in the sick room where a patient H with a contagious disease has been H nursed, arc washed in gasoline and H pressed with a very hot iron, they Bt will be free from- living germs. |