| Show HINTS FOR aumen if soot Is dropped on a carpet throw down an equal quantity of salt and sweep off all together fruit stains can be eradicated by oxalic acid and should be seen to at once while the stain is fresh always put the sugar used in a tart in the center of the fruit not the top it makes the crust sodden frying pans should always be scoured r with salt directly after they have been used and wiped clean with a cleth pastry is lighter if mixed with a knife instead of the hand band and rolled with a glass bottle instead of a rolling p pin when in an iron bedstead creaks with each movement of the sleeper take out the laths baths and wrap the end of each in a newspaper to prevent lamp chimneys from cracking put them into a kettle of boiling water gradually heat it till it boils and then let it as gradually cool it Is not generally known that rats cannot resist sunflower seeds A trap baited bait ed with these seeds is the th e most t efficacious method of catching rats muk milk will take out ink stains from boards bearis cotton and other fabrics if used before dried in soak in a little milk and then wash in the ordinary way to remove scorch caused by an overheated iron soak so k the article at once in cold water for half an hour then rub gently between the hands and rinse in clean water paint stains on clothing are a difficult to remo remove when once they have dried in but with persistent t use of benzine and an d spirits of obstinate stains are removed stoves and ranges should be kept tree free from soot in all compartments J L dirty clogged hot air passage will prevent ven t any oven fro from baking well or the water waler from heating |
