(To be continued.)
[HOUSEHOLD HINTS.]
Under no circumstances whatever should bread be thrown away. Some can be baked hard in the oven, and then crushed with a rolling-pin and put away in a glass bottle or tin to use when frying chops or fish. Delicious puddings can be made also by soaking stale bread and crusts in milk, and beaten up when quite soft with eggs and mixed with raisins, candied peel and some spice, and baked. These can be eaten either hot or cold.
Thin clean paper should never be thrown away, but kept in a kitchen drawer, for wiping out saucepans and frying-pans, and wiping butter off knives, to save cloths being cut by the latter.
Very early potatoes are often very unwholesome, having been forced by the aid of chemicals and not grown naturally.
Separate days should be arranged for cleaning the silver and brass articles in a house, and separate cloths and dusters used for them.
A hard broom should be kept in every coal-cellar to sweep up the loose coal each time coal is fetched, otherwise it is taken up on the shoes and carried over the house.
Soiled linen should never be kept in bedrooms, but in a basket outside on a landing, or in the bath-room.
It is a pity to throw away clean paper-bags. They should be kept together and given to some small tradesman who will be glad to use them again. Old newspapers should be given to some poor invalid who will be glad of something to read, or sent to the workhouse or hospital.