Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1878 — Hint for Poor Folk. [ARTICLE]

Hint for Poor Folk.

Alpheus has been having a long spell of fever, and it Avas necessary to have a light burning all night in his room. We live out in the country, so no gas was accessible. Candles flickered disagreeably, and a kerosene lamp, when turned low, always had an annoying smell for an invalid, so I bethought of a light my mother used to improvise, when I was a child, before kerosene, with its attending danger, Avas known. It Avas made by taking a saucer of lard, and cutting a piece of newspaper in a circle about three inches in diameter, then twisting the center of this up to a point and burying all but the tip in the lard. It will burn all night—a shady, dim right—and in our case proved a real comfort. Some of these homely facts are Avell worth remembering. — Prairie Farmer.