The Laundry
To Remove Ink
STAIN.-Immediately saturate with milk, soak it up with a rag, apply more, rub well, and in a few minutes the ink will disappear. rag, apply…
The Cellar and Ice-House (When properly constructed)
The cellar, when properly constructed and cared for, is the most useful room in the house, and no dwelling is complete without one. It is…
The Cellar and Ice-House (With brick walls between-one)
with brick walls between-one for vegetables, one for fruits, one for provisions, one for the laundry, and a fifth for coal and the furnace…
The Ice-House (If the cellar is constructed)
If the cellar is constructed above ground, the entire walls should be double, with air space between, double windows and doors being even…
The Store-Room
A clean, tidy, well-arranged store-room is one sign of a good methodical housekeeper. When stores are put away at hap-hazard, and taken out…
The Ice-House (One of the greatest of summer)
Ice is one of the greatest of summer luxuries, and indeed is almost a neces sity. It is so easily put up, even in the country, and so…
Keeping Fruits and Vegetables (Cutting ice as soon as it)
In cutting ice, as soon as it is of sufficient thickness and before much warm weather, select a still day, with the thermometer as near…
Keeping Fruits and Vegetables
TO KEEP CELLAR CLEAN. -Remove all vegetables as soon as they begin to decay, and ventilate well SO that the walls will not become foul. Use…