How To Preserve Smoked Meat

The keeping qualities of smoked meat do not depend upon the amount of smoking, but upon the uniform and proper drying of the meat. It is of considerable advantage also to roll the meat on its removal from the salt, before smoking, in sawdust or bran. By this means the crust formed in smoking will not be so thick; and if moisture condenses upon the meat it remains in the bran, the brown coloring matter of the smoke not penetrating. The best place to keep the meat is in a smoke-house, in which it remains dry without drying out entirely, as it does when hung in a chimney.

How To Remove Stains On Spoons Caused By Boiled Eggs

Rub with common salt.

Cleaning Sponges

A gelatinous substance frequently forms in sponges after prolonged use in water. A weak solution of permanganate of potassa will remove it. The brown stain caused by the chemical can be got rid of by soaking in very dilute muriatic acid. An old and dirty sponge may be cleaned by first soaking it for some hours in a solution of permanganate of potassa, then squeezing it, and putting it into a weak solution of hydrochloric acid, 1 part acid to 10 parts water.

How To Bleach Sponges

Wash first in weak muriatic acid, then in cold water; soak in weak sulphuric acid, wash in water again, and finally rinse in rose-water.

How To Remove Stains Of Acid Fruit From The Hands

Wash the hands in clear water, wipe them lightly, and while they are yet moist, strike a match and shut your hands around it so as to catch the smoke, and the stain will disappear.

How To Prevent Souring When Boiled Starch

Add a little sulphate of copper.

How To Remove Moss From Stone

This is useful for the green mould which forms on marble and brown stone steps. Apply a solution of 75 grains of carbolic acid to 1 quart of water.

How To Remove Glass Stoppers

To move a tight glass stopper, hold the neck of the bottle to a flame, or take two turns of a string and seesaw it. The heat engendered expands the neck of the bottle before the expansion reaches the stopper.

Stove-Holes In Walls

See that these openings for the pipes are protected by good tin covers after the stoves are taken down. Do not stuff rags in.

Straw Matting. Washing, -Use a cloth dampened in salt, water. Indian meal sprinkled over it and thoroughly swept out will also cleanse it finely.

Styptic Paper For Stopping The Bleeding Of Small Wounds

Mix gum benzoin (best quality), 1 lb.; rock alum, 1 lb.; water, 4-1/8 gals. Boil in a tin vessel for 4 hours, replacing the water lost by evaporation. Saturate paper with the solution, dry carefully, and brush over with a concentrated solution of perchloride of iron. Keep in a water-proof and air-tight case.

Glossing Shirt-Bosoms

Take 2 ozs. of fine white gum-ara-bic powder, put it in a pitcher, and pour on a pint or more of water, and then, having covered it, let it stand all night. In the morning, pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork, and keep it for use. A teaspoonful of gum-water stirred in a pint of standi, made in the usual way, will give to lawns, white or printed, a look of newness when nothing else can restore them, after they have been washed.