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Show HOME ECONOMICS. Useful Household Hints. -i LITTLE SUGGESTIONS THAT MAY HELP SOME. The News is inaugurating a department de-partment exclusively for its housewife house-wife readers. It hopes to have in charge of this department, Mrs. Irene B. Vickers, teacher of Domestic Science in the Milford High School, hut for this issue, the following useful use-ful suggestions by an anonymous writer in the Country Gentleman, will prove of interest. Apple in Hash. One apple, coarsely chopped, is a surprisingly agreeable addition to meat or fish hash. The flavor can be further improved by frying it in bacon fat. To Clean a Galvanized Pail. Galvanized pails and tubs may be cleaned quickly and perfectly by being scrubbed with kerosene oil, then washed with hot soapsuds. Save the Celery Tops. Save the celery tops and bits of "wilted parsley and dry them in the oven when it is being user! for other purposes. Powdered, J.hey are excellent ex-cellent for seasoning soups and gravies. grav-ies. V To Remove the Odor of Fresh Paint. The odor of fresh paint may be effectually ef-fectually removed from a room by placing a paper bag containing several sev-eral lumps of charcoal in the rooiiC and closing all windows and doors. When Melting Chocolate. Rub the inside of your pan with a little butter before melting chocolate for ralf fiJUm This prevents the grease and keep the table beautifully white and clean. A Novel Quilt. For a child's bed, purchase linen fastcolor picture books. Separate the leaves and sew them together with alternate squares of plain white muslin, the same size as the pictures. This never fails to amuse ana 'Tlter-est 'Tlter-est a child. Coffee in Gravy. The use of left-over coffee instead of water in preparing meat gravies enhances the richness of their color and flavor and its presence cannot be detected. This is a French chef's secret. Greasing the Pudding Mold. Coat the pudding molds with caramel car-amel rather than fat. Make a heavy caramel syrup and pour all round the sides, letting it harden before putting in the dough. The pudding will slip out as easily while hot as though fat were used, while the caramel car-amel will lend both a nice color and a delicate flavor to the pudding. To Clean Paneling. Much paneling and grooved work makes a kitchen difficult to clean, but a brush is an excellent assistant. If you fear scratching the finish, cover the bristles with two or three layers of cloth. The brush will still prove yielding enough to reach into every corner and crevice. Mrs. Anna B. Scott, the noted expert ex-pert on cookery, of the Ladies' Home Journal, offers the following suggestions sugges-tions as to the use of meat as a flavor. Veal Balls With Tomato Sauce. One and half lb. neck of veal, one cupful of dry bread crumbs, one tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of grated onion, one-fourth teaspoonful of nutmeg, one-fourth 1 Mltvork or bacon, one denly and it is ortnr-Bre portauce that they be treated p . ly. Consider the suffering thi a be endured until a physician rumosj or medicine can be obtained. , id roll berlain's Colic, Cholera a, ,v j arrhoea Remedy has a reputaacg second to none for the quick rQv which it affords. Obtainable n where. rve A. E.Lofgran, the local contra and builder, has purchased a le the Lewis Addition, and expect Qj shortly begin the erection of a,all dence for himself, if he can fino. e time to do so. ,n |
