Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-04 | Page 10 | Household Hints

I HOUSEHOLD HINTS GIvIND a handful of sunflower seeds and rIvc them to the canary. The blrda relish the little tender pieces that arc found among the seeds. Serve a light suet roly-poly with beef. Ti o much starch will cause linen to crack In the folds. When ironing linen move tho Iron with the threads.' never diagonally. Crutons are always good served with a clear soup. Celery and pineapple make a delicious salad. It an egg Is frozen put It into hot water for a few moments. This will thaw it out perfectly. A lump of sugar put Into a quart of olive oil will prevent It getting rancid. If washing powders aro used In the washing of linen it will go to pieces In no time. Linen should be kept In a dry. cool place. Heat causes the threads to becomo brittle. To Bwccten gooseberries or cranberries with loss sugar put a pinch of baking soda In whllo cooking. Servo savory stuffing with vegetable marrow, tomatoes or hard boiled eggs. Whenever possible serve soup before the meat course. This lakes off the edgo of an appetite. Make more use of cheese by provkJIng savory cheese dishes Instead of too many sweet puddings. A vpsrlannn dinner served once a we'ek is a real resource to the housewife and cuts down the meat bills. ncd meats and highly seasoned dlshc.i are generally believed to be unwholesome for people past fifty. Never forget the need of salads and fruits all through the cold weather. To Judge a good ham. see that the skin Is thin. Old hams have thick skin and they arc apt to have a strong flavor. If you are looking for a house, time can be saved by advertising for what you desire, instead of following up places advertised. ad-vertised. Earth worms In flower pots can be destroyed de-stroyed bv mixing a little pulverized tobacco1 to-bacco1 with the earth In each pot. To doughnuts add one-fourth spoonful of ground ginger. The splec will not be detected and th-j doughnuts will not absorb ab-sorb the fat. To prevent carpet from ravelling when cut. run two rows of machine stitching with tho machine where It Is to be cut- A few drops of amnnnla In tho water in which silver is washed will keep It Itrlght for a long time without cleaning.