Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1889 — Hints to Housewives. [ARTICLE]

Hints to Housewives.

»Vashing the face in water melon juice is said to remove tan, sunburn and freckles. A teaspoonful of ammonia in the water in which silver is washed reduces the labor of keeping it bright. . If by chance a fishbone lodges in the throat a raw egg im mediately swallowed will usually detach it. Treat tired or inflamed eyes with a bath of warm water five parts and witchhazel one part, three times a day. As a dressing for ladies’ shoes glycerine renders the leather soft and pliable without soiling garments which come in contact White zephyr articles, if but slightly soiled, are readilv cleansed by rubbing with dry flour and hanging out of doors on a clear, breezy day? A writer in the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal says a 2 per cent, solution of sulphate of copper applied to the skin and allowed to dry on will cure prickly heat in a few days. In should be used pight and morning. Chemists gay that it takes more than twice as much sugar) to sweeten preserves, sauce, etc,, if put in when they

begin to cook as it does to sweeten after the fruit is cooked. Salt should not be added to oatmeal until it has boiled at least ten minutes. To kill cockroaches and waterbugs the following may be used: Boil an ounce of pokeroot in one pint of water until the strength is extract - ed; mix tt e decoction with molasses and spread it in plates on thej kitchen and laundry floors and in the closets or anywhere where the vermin may trouble you. The eating of large quantities of potatoes has been tried as a means of relief from foreign bodies that have been accidentally swallowed. The whole intestinal canal is thus d ilated proportionately, and the foreign body is carried through. Professor Billroth and Dr. Salzer affirm that many surgical operations might be avoided in this way, such articles as a twentyeramnu weight, a set of artificial teethland a needle having been successfully removed.