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Show Hints to Housekeepers. Use kerosene oil to clean your wash-boiler. wash-boiler. Banish red ants by keeping a small bag of sulphur in places they frequent. The easiest way to clean rubber shoes of any kind is to rub them with vaso-lino. vaso-lino. A toaspoonful of salt dissolved in one-half glassful of water is excellent to allay nausea in sick-headaches. Shabby leather chair seats, valises and bags can be brightened by rubbing them with the well-beaten whites of an egg- To the stomach milk is a solid food, not a drink; it must be eaten with a spoon or slowly sipped, and never drunk like water. Keep a clasp-knife or.a knife with a handle different from those in common uso, for tho sole purpose of peeling onions, and so avoid the flavor and odor of them where it is neither expected nor desired. The value of starch as a drying agent is not fully appreciated; on this account it is largely used by manufacturers of confectionery and baking powders. Tho housekeeper will find it effectual in keeping table salt from lumping, if only one part bo used with ten of the salt. Chapped hands will bo less troublesome trou-blesome if after washing they are thoroughly rubbod with powdered starch. Stockings should fit smoothly. There is no more frequent cause of callous places, cords and other afflictions of tho feet than ill-fitting stockings, that lio in creases under or around the foot. Whatever economy it is necessary to practice, do not resort to the folly of making over stockings, leaving in the feet those inevitable hard seams which are sure to cause the wearer suffering and annoyance Never throw away the pieces of lemons after they have been squeezed. They will come in handy for removing the stains from the hands and other articles. Dipped in salt, they will scour copper kettles nicely, and ro-movo ro-movo stains from brass' work. They will take stains and dirt and odor from pans and kettles as nothing else will. The odor of fish and onions can thus be removed easily. |