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Show Suggestions For the Housewife. All vegetables l:c-p better in a low-tempt low-tempt rature. To prevent drynes.s a ham should be left In the water in which it is boiled until perfectly col4. It is said riiat a sound, ripe apple placed in the tin cake box will keep the cakes from drying or crumbling. Starch and iron wide lamp wicks and wicks for oil stoves. They will not then cause trouble in fitting them into the burners. In giving medicine to a baby place the point of a spoon against the roof of his mouth. Administered in this way. the child cannot choke- or eject , the medicine. Sponges get unrieasant after a. little us'e.' They fan b-? renovated by s-iak- irig'ftT twenty-four hours In"' a saucepan sauce-pan of boiling water, to which a table-spoonful table-spoonful of common salt and a table-spoonful table-spoonful of soda have been added. Afterwards Aft-erwards the sponge must be washed in Warm water. Coeoanut kisses are delicate sweets and simply, made. The whites of ' six eggs are beaten to a froth .with a pound and an extra cupful of confectioners' sugar: Then is added a piece of citric acid no larger than a small pea. and a cupful of finely grated coeoanut. Drop in teaspoonfuls on tins covered with butter or floured paper, and bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. A simple method of testing whether milk has been watered is to take a well polished knitting needle and dip it into a deep vessel of milk and withdraw with-draw it immediately. If the milk is unwatcred some of the fluid will adhere-to adhere-to the needle, but if it has been watered in the least degree the needle will come out quite free of the milkr iluid altogether. |