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Show f HOUSEHOLD AXOv QUESTlONSjyiiy Starching Curtains. If curtains are thoroughly dried before being starched they will keep clean longer. Wrinkled hands from the family wash can be made smooth by washing in water to which a little vinegar has been added. Washing Pearl-Handled Knives. Never allow bone or pearl-handled pearl-handled knives to soak in dish water. wa-ter. Dip the blades into hot, soapy-water, soapy-water, then dry them well. Ferns grown in the house will have a rich green coldr if a teaspoon tea-spoon of household ammonia is added in a quart of water and poured over the ferns once or twice a month. t . , Care of House Plants. Keep the temperature of the room in which house plants are grown at 60 or 65 degrees. They do not thrive- in a room that is too warm. To remove a stopper from a glass jar, pour warm waterinto a' pan and invert jar in it, grafehjally add warmer water until it is quite-hot, quite-hot, but not so hot as to break jar. Leave in water for some time, occasionally trying stopper to see if it is loose. Tasty Apple Sauce. Add one-eighth one-eighth teaspoon of cream of tartar to cinnamon and sugar used in apple sauce. It gives it a delicious flavor. For a sweet muffin to serve with hot beverages, try adding a fourth of a cup each of chopped candied orange peel and candied pineapple to your regular muffin recipe. Or try using a fourth of a cup of chopped dates and a third-cup of broken pecans. A third combination combina-tion is a fourth-cup each of citron and figs. |