Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — Useful Memoranda. [ARTICLE]

Useful Memoranda.

' Morning’s milk is richer than that of evening.' • Wood ashes form a good lye for softening water. Green bay leaves allay the inflammation of bee stings. Old clothes should be saved to weave -ifltb' door-mats. Apple pips impart a flue flavor to tarts and dumplings. All linen pieces should be saved and kept for domestic purposes. Kettles and stew pans should be washed outside as well as inside. Soap-suds and soapy water supply the manure for garden soils. Sage leaves in small quantities make an excellent addition to tea. Lemon juice will allay the irritation caused by gnats and flies. An oyster shell put into a tea-kettle will prevent it getting furred. Cold green tea, well sweetened and put into saucers, will destroy flies. Cold potatoes, mashed with peas, make an excellent pudding. TriE most troublesome and dangerous effects sometimes arise from the slightest cause, and often the Baby’s serious sickness could bo prevented by promptly lining Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup at the beginning. Price only 25 cents a bottle. A young lady showing an elderly woman a beautiful cluster diamond ring, a present, when the old lady dropped her spectacles to the end of her nose, and exclaimed, “Lor’ sakes, I thought it was an old seed wart. ”