The Common sense recipe book

For chapped hands take two ounces of glycerine, one of alco- hol, one-fourth ounce of gum tragacanth (get them at the nearest drug-store), one pint of water. Soak the tragacanth in the water two days, then strain and add the other ingredients. Cut the glycerine with the alcohol. If it should be too thick add a little more water and alcohol. Bottle and have it ready for use. In very cold weather, if it is too thick to pour easily, heat it by setting it in a bowl of hot water. One of the most powerful cleansers and purifiers is borax; it enters into the composition of many things sold at a high figure under other names. A big name takes better. The old remedy of camphor and borax as a cleanser for the hair is well known. A couple of ounces of borax added to eight or ten gallons of water when washing clothes effects a decided sav- FARPER’S Pork Sausages ; ARE THE BEST. 245 James M. Ai rd — Bread, Cakes and Candies Pure, Good, Wholesome Telephones 1025, 1340, 6488, 5052 ing in soap. Borax is much used by the housewives of Hol- land in washing, and their clothes have a world-wide reputation for being snow-white. Most of the starch glosses contain borax, and a teaspoonful added to a pint of starch will produce a beautiful gloss on linen. Mustard-water is said to be excellent for cleansing the hands after handling odorous substances. Dusting cloths must be washed often, or they will carry more dirt into the rooms than they take out. To test nutmegs prick them with a pin, and if they are good the oil will instantly spread around the puncture. To remove grease from coat collars, and the glossy look from the elbows and seams, rub with a cloth dipped in ammonia. To scour knives easily, mix a sniall quantity of baking soda with your brick dust, and see if your knives do not polish better. If flat irons become rough and smoky, lay a little fine salt ona flat surface and rub them well. It will smooth them and prevent sticking. To remove mildew, rub common yellow soap on the damaged article, and then sift some starch on that. Rub well and put out in the sunshine. A damp cloth held over the mouth and nose, or better, made to envelope the whole head, will enable one to pass through the most dense smoke without suffocation. Old Pianos received by W. H. Leacu, 49 Metcalfe Street, in part payment for New Morris 8 Pedalled Upright Pianos. 246 R K &P Renaud, King & Patterson oie 4 652 Craig Street e make all kinds of Furniture to order Furnitu re and from special designs. To apply a mustard plaster so as not to blister the skin, mix the mustard .with the white of an egg instead of water. The plaster will draw thoroughly without blistering the most deli- cate skin. To mend china, take a very thick solution of gum arabic in water, and stir into it plaster of paris until the mixture becomes of a proper consistency. Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges of the china and stick them together. In three days the article cannot be broken in the same place. A word about the refrigerator. Keep it well filled with ice. Keep the ice chamber perfectly clean and the outlet open.. Do not put any form of food upon the ice or in the ice chamber. Put the milk, meat and butter on the bottom—the coldest part of the refrigerator; the vegetables on the next shelf, and the fruit on the upper shelf. This arrangement will prevent one article of food from tasting of another. Meat should be put into the refrigerator the moment it comes from the market. . Butter should have the wrappers removed before being put away. Small fruits should be turned from the boxes into flat dishes, in not more than one layer, and placed at once on the upper shelf of the refrigerator. Large fruits keep better in a dark, cool, dry place. Melons should be washed as soon as they come from the market, and put at once into a cool place.