Left-over bread, toast or biscuits should be thoroughly dried in warm oven, put through grinder and placed in glass jars. No bread need be wasted, as there are many uses for it in puddings, nut loaves, pancakes, gems, etc. A small top oven used on a gas range is a good receptacle for the pan of dry bread until the collection is large enough to grind and put away.

Water in which rice, potatoes and many other vegetables have been cooked should be saved for soups. It is surprising what a variety of nutritious soups may be made by using thought and originality in combining left-overs.

When food is scorched in cooking take the cover off and place the kettle immediately in a pan of cold water. After a few moments, put the food into a clean kettle and finish cooking. You will find that the scorched taste has been removed.

Should boiled custard "whey" in cooking, beat rapidly with a Dover egg-beater just before taking from the stove. This will make it smooth again, but somewhat thinner.

To prevent the "scum" from rising on cocoa or chocolate, beat with Dover egg-beater just before taking it from the fire.

The right proportion of soda to use with sour milk is one level teaspoonful to two cups of milk. If molasses is used, more soda is required.

When cooking onions, cabbage or fish, set a tin cup of vinegar on the stove and keep it boding. This takes away all odors.

To prevent mush from boiling over, grease the edge of the kettle on the inside, down about two inches.

It is well to keep on hand in summer a good supply of paper napkins to use when fruit is served. This saves the linen napkins from becoming stained.

A small steel knitting needle kept in the pantry drawer is much more sanitary for trying cakes, etc., than the old-fashioned broom straw. It is also better than a fork for trying vegetables, as it does not break them into pieces.

Empty paste jars which have the well for the brush in the center make excellent dishes to place inside vases or jars, to hold flowers in place.

It is more convenient to use a pitcher in pouring pancake batter on a griddle than to dip it with a spoon.

In making sandwiches, spread soft butter on the end of the loaf before slicing.

Formula for cranberry jam: One-half as much sugar as cranberries, one-half as much water as sugar.

Parsley can be kept if it is chopped very fine and dried. It can then be used just as fresh parsley. Celery tops when dried can be kept and used as flavoring.

Green peas retain their color when cooked in boiling salted water.

Potatoes may be cooked without waste if started in boiling salted water. Bring to a boil quickly, then allow to boil very slowly until done. Do not allow them to stop boiling.

String beans should be started in boiling water. Pour off the first water after ten minutes and start again.

To remove skins from tomatoes, stick a fork into them, hold over gas flame, when skin breaks remove with knife.

To clear coffee, put one pound of coffee into a flat pan, break into it one egg. Stir with fork until well mixed, let stand one hour, put into can, ready for use.

To remove grass stains, wash in alcohol.

To remove white spots from furniture, dip cloth in hot water, put over spot, quickly remove and rub with dry cloth. Repeat if necessary.

Milk glasses should be rinsed in cold water before washing.

To remove fruit stains, pour boiling water over spot.

Borax is very good to sprinkle over fish to keep it fresh. Wash thoroughly to remove borax before preparing.

When cutting new bread or cake heat knife quite hot.

Use bath brick and vinegar to clean porcelain tub. Polish with cloth dipped in coal oil.

Use lemon or orange peel for flavoring cakes and custards. Do not grate the white part as it is bitter.

Stewed canned corn or tomatoes are improved by adding a pinch of soda. It sweetens them.

Use a large cork for scouring knives with scouring brick.

An ordinary Mason jar cover makes an excellent pot scraper.

A little flour spread over the tops of cakes before they are iced will prevent the icing from running off the cakes.

A little flour sprinkled in the bottom of a pie tin will prevent a berry pie from running over.

Wring chamois out of soapy water without rinsing. When it dries it will be soft and serviceable instead of stiff.

Half a lemon dipped in salt will do all the work of oxalic acid in cleaning copper boilers, brass tea-kettles, and other such utensils.

Coal oil will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water.

Keep an oyster shell in your tea-kettle and it will prevent the formation of a crust on the inside of it by attracting the stony particles to itself.

When peeling onions hold them in a pan of cold water during the process. This saves tears.

To revive the luster of morocco, or any other leather, apply the white of egg with a sponge.

Use a little ammonia in dishwater when washing glassware. It will make it sparkle like cut glass.

Wet scorch stains in soapsuds and place in the sun. Wet iron rust with lemon juice and salt and place in the sun. Fresh paint on clothing can be taken off with turpentine.

To keep a cut lemon fresh, place unused portion in a small cup of water, not covering the pulp.