How To Keep Lemons

Cover with cold water, changing it every week. This makes them ripe and juicy.

To The Giver's Knowledge

This recipe has not been in print before; it was obtained in Russia:

Russian Face Wash or Cream: Whites of 6 eggs, wine glass of alcohol, 4 teaspoons lemon juice, 2 teaspoons almond oil, stir with fork slightly to break the egg, but, do not foam it, then add slowly the lemon juice, the oil, and last the alcohol,

Hand Lotion

Quarter oz. gum tragacanth and soak in 1 pint of rain water 3 days, then add 1 oz. each of alcohol, glycerine and witch hazel, also a little good faint perfume. Put in jars with a tight cover. Keep in a bottle 5 parts lemon juice to 1 of alcohol. After washing dishes, peeling vegetables or otherwise using the hands, first use the lemon juice, then rub in a little of the lotion and the hands will be kept in a fine condition.

Salad dressing should not be mixed with the salad until just before serving.

There is nothing better to fill pin cushions with than dried coffee grounds. Mix with a little ground spices.

Use chloride of lime disinfectant. A solution of the lime water will remove mildew if the goods is soaked in it. Wrinse in cold water and hang in the sun.

Line garbage cans with newspapers so that they will not have to be scrubbed out every time they are emptied.

To clean mirrors and windows tie some finely powdered whiting in a thin muslin cloth, dip in alcohol, rub on the glass, allow the mixture to dry and polish the surface with tissue paper.

Do not wash lamp chimneys in water, but ;hold them over the steam of a teakettle and polish with newspaper.

If a very little flour is sprinkled in a pan when eggs are being fried, it will prevent the hot grease from sputtering on the stove.

Have your kitchen table covered with smooth zinc instead of oil cloth. It is not injured by hot pans and kettles and is very easily cleaned.

The step ladder is the most useful but most treacherous household article. To keep the ladder from slipping, cut pieces from the bottom of old rubber shoes and tack them securely to the bottom of the ladder.

Reduce the temperature of the oven when the cake begins to rise in a heap in the center. The cake will be coarse grained if allowed to bake in this manner.

To clean cane chairs and white straw hats, mix a teaspoon of oxalic acid in a quart of water, scrub with a stiff brush, wrinse with warm water and rub until dry.

Powdered alum will allay excessive perspiration if dusted under the arms and under the feet.

Never fill a lamp full of coal oil. If kept in a warm room it will run over through the expansion of the oil. This is one of the frequent causes of explosions.

Clean and save worn matting to line carpets with. It is much nicer than paper.

To keep eggs, dip each one in melted parafine and stand on the small end.