Frontier Fridays: Interesting General Tips Around the House

Never Leave a Glass of Water or Medicine Uncovered in a Room:  Water will absorb the gases which a room is filled from respiration or sleeping in a room.  (this has to be a really old thought!)

To Remove the Odor of Onions from Pans:  Fill with cold water kettles and sauce pans in which they have been cooked adding a tablespoon of bread soda and the same of ammonia.  let stand on the stove until it boils.  Then wash in hot suds and rinse well.  A pudding or bean pot, treated in this way will wash easily.  Wood ashes in the water will have the same effect. 

Make Your Own Closet: If you have no closet in your room, get a board, nine inches wide, and three or four feet long.  Put it in the most convenient place in your room on two brackets.  Stain it the color of your woodwork.  Screw into the under side of the board wardrobe hooks.  Now get a pretty piece of cretonne or denim, hem top and bottom, and tack with brass headed tacks to the shelf, having it long enough to come to the floor, and around the ends of the board.  Use the top for a book shelf or hats.  (This is not a closet in my book! Closets, however, are a fairly modern invention.  Our ancestors used trunks or boxes to store clothes.)

To Wash Small Pieces of Lace:  Put in a horse radish bottle, and pour over them - strong soap suds, good and hot, and shake well.  Let stand awhile and shake again.  Rinse in clear, warm water by shaking.  Dry on a clean cloth in the sunshine.  (Probably used for doilies)

Next Friday some old fashioned recipes that you may or may not have heard of!