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PANTRY HELPS
If butter is too hard to serve, heat a bowl with boiling water and turn the empty bowl over the butter. This will not waste or impair the taste of the butter.
SUBSTITUTES
Use jelly tumblers to bake custards in.
Use soldier's long wristers to make gaiters for a baby; just sew an elastic band at the bottom.
Use cold cream jars to keep pepper, allspice, and other spices in, and label with a sticker or a piece of surgeon's plaster.
Instead of the usual dust cap, cut a three-cornered piece of cheese-cloth, hemming the two sides without selvedge and tie around the head with the point at the back of your neck.
To avoid giving out fresh napkins at every meal, write each name on a spring clothes-pin and pin to the napkin. You can name your face towel in this way when camping out.
When cleaning fish use scissors in place of a knife and if it is to be scaled dip it first into boiling water.
HOUSE-CLEANING HINTS
To clean a painted wall wash it with saleratus water; about one tablespoonful of saleratus to a quart of warm water.
A piece of zinc placed on the glowing coals will clean the chimney of soot.
A little lye put in paste will make wall-paper stick.
To drive a nail into plaster, heat it very hot and the plaster will not break.
To drive nails or screws into hard wood always rub them over with soap and they will go in easily and will not split the wood.
Shellac the inside of all drawers and they will be easy to clean.
When you remove the waste from your carpet-sweeper, carefully cut the lint and hair from the revolving rolls and brushes. Then with a cloth dipped in kerosene rub the bristles and the inside of the box clean, and the oil will prevent the dust from rising when you sweep.
FIRST AIDS
For a rusty nail accident pour turpentine at once on the afflicted parts.
For burns put on scraped raw potato instantly and change as often as it gets warm, until the pain is relieved.
Olive oil will remove gum from a child's hair as if by magic.
When a child puts a bean in his nose, don't try to dig it out. Put a little cayenne pepper upon his upper lip and he will sneeze it out.
To extract splinters, fill a wide-mouthed bottle almost to the top with very hot water and place the injured part over the mouth of the bottle and press lightly. Suction will draw the flesh down and steam will extract the splinter.
TABLE OF MEASURES
(dry and liquid)
| 4 salt spoons | 1 teaspoonful |
| 3 teaspoonfuls | 1 tablespoonful |
| 16 tablespoonfuls | 1 cup |
| 2 cups | 1 pint |
All measures are level.
To measure dry materials, take up all a spoon or cup will hold and level it with a knife.
To measure liquids, take up all the spoon or cup will hold.
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