Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — Valuable Hints. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Hints.

When ice is required at night for a sick person, break it into small pieces, and if it be scarce and ear* most be taken to prevent its melting; pat into a soap plate, cover with another plate, and pnt between two leather pillows. Never wear a good woolen drew into the kitchen without, the protection of a large apron. No flannel that has not been carefully washed, and is not perfeetly soft and fleecy, should ever touch the skin of an infant. We never had any patienoe with a mother or nftrse who would stick pins carelessly into her dress, collar, or ribbon, thereby inflicting painful wounds upon her innocent victim. Not a pin, excepting a saf< ty pin, Bhould be used, about a child, and when buttons will perform the office of pins they should be made to do so. To mothers, aunties, on sisters who do up the school luncheon, for the youngsters : pray make it as attractive in appearance as possible. There is truly nothing very attractive about a thick piece of dry bread and butter and a cookie, all rolled in a piece of ooarse brown paper, washed down by a drink from the cup that “goes-, the rounds.” Such a luncheon will often, impair the appetite of a fastidious, or delicate child, and he will go without rather than eat it. A little, care in, the catting of the bread; the doing up of the. cookies or crullers in. tissue or white paper; the sauce or custard put into a pretty cup, and all wrapped in a clean white napkin within a bright tin pail { or, better etui, a pretty lunoh basket, will, by the pleasure it gives the child, well repay the extra care and thought —Mural New Yorker.

In the clothinghouse i “I want a bang-up, common sense suit One that’ll be dressy and not too good for business.” “That’s just the cheese. Every way equal to custom made. Nobody’ll know the difference, and a third less in price. Same thing made up would cost you—” “H’n?; yes. How muoh have I got to pay for an cwerooat to match ?” “I can sell you an overoaat There, ain’t that a daisy ? Silk lined, for 9 —to you, you know. “ Got any o’ them thirty-seven oent suspenders left I’m coming sll to pieces ?” Dealer does him up a pair in a hurry, and forgets to ask him to call again.— Nen Haven Register.

ThU most remarkable case on record fa that of tiie Yankee soap who, in a violent storm at sea, saved himmdf from death by taking a cake of hfn own wap and washing himself ashota.