USEFUL HINTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 104, 25 January 1908, Page 11

USEFUL HINTS.

■ Tough fowls will be as tender as chickens if they arc steamed for several hours. Serve with white or parsley sauce. Many house plants are killed by too lavish watering. The best plan is to immerse tho pot for two hours in. lukewarm water, and not to water the plants until the top of the earth just , begins to look dry and hard. it' a'tin of paint ha£ to .be'left open, stir it thoroughly,- so as to dissolve all tho oil; then fill up with water. When it becomes necessary; to use the'paint, pour off tho water, and you will find it as fresh as wheiw first opened. \ cheap disinfectant to ' uso when' scrubbing' or 1 washing utensils ■ in a sick room is made by adding a teaspoonful of turpentine to every bucket_ of hot water. Turpentine is a powerful disinfectant, and-will. dispel all bad odours. ] When a doctor is called iiij if his directions are in the least" degrco complicated, ask him to write them down, and do not depend on your own memory. A daily record should bo kept- in all cases of illness which is either serious at the moment or is likely to become so. Note tho quantity and tinio when.-food and medicine are administered, the hours of sleep, the temperature of the patient,' and any other particulars useful for the doctor to know! ,

Various causes combine to make the hands very , coarse and rough . Less attention is given to the hands than to the face, and yet a white and delieate hand- is. very charming; even a cook may have less eoarso hands, if she will, by'always using glycerine and cucumber after washing her hands,, and by never mill" eoarso soap, but barn, and oatmeal, which will clean hands riuitc as well as soap, and'keep them soft atithc same time, whatever may lie the amount pf work sho may have to do and to whatever exposure in heat- and cold the hands may be subjected. A good way to keep evening gloves clean until one's destination is'reached is to wear over them'a large pair of wash gloves. These, mav always be kept perfectly clean with very little trouble, and it is so much easier to put on one's party gloves at homo. The 1 easiest- way to seed raisins is to pour over enough boiling water to cover the fruit; then take a pair of scissors that are kept for kitchen use, ami snip each raisin almost in half, when a little pressure will remove the seeds.