Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1889 — Famous Sound Suggestions. [ARTICLE]
Famous Sound Suggestions.
Teach your daughter how to wear a calico dress and do it like a queen. Teach her to say “No,” and mean it; or “Yes,” and stiek to it. Always look in the direction in which you are moving. Never leave a car, or other public vehiele, when it is in motion. Never put your head or arms out of a vehicle when it is in motion. If a horse runs away with you, remain in the vehicle, rather than risk the danger of jumping from it. In thunder storms keep away from trees, metallic substances, doors and windowa. The lower part of a house is the safer. Never .play with firearms. Always keep them beyond the reach of children. When awake, very young children should never be left alone. Do not go wijjjb. Loose hair or flowing garments, near aangerous machinery. Never touch gunpowder after dark. Never fondle a strange dog. Never light a fire with kerosene. Fill and trim your lamps in the daytime. Never trim or fill a lighted lamp. Keep matches in a closed tin box. Mosquitoes may be kept away by sponging the body with a diluted extract of pennyroyal, which also allays the pain of their bites. Before woolen clothes or furs are put away, for the summer, thqjy should be well aired in the hot sun, then sprinked with camphor and sewed up in iinen. This a sure p otecton against moths. The way house plants thrive on the dregs of coffee left at, breakfast is wonderful. Bowker itself hardly turns out stronger leafage or such thick bloom. The grounds are t, good mulch on the top of the soil, but a little care must be given not to let them sour and get musty .in coolish, damp weather Yankee Blade.
