Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — Useful Hints. [ARTICLE]

Useful Hints.

For friezes, nets have often been used with good eflect, draped in graceful folds along the top of a room or stretched directly upon the wall. They are used very largely for transom decorations or as valances over windows or in alcoves. A slight burn should be tied up immediately in baking powder laid upon a wet cloth. This will usually prevent inflammation. But if the wound does inflame and become sore, bathe it with equal parts of raw linseed oil and lime water. After the inflammation is out, heal with zinc salve, which can be procured from the druggist. A very pale color in meat is a sign that the animal was poor in blood, and that the meat is wanting in nutritive qualities; the cause of the bloodlessness may even have been some serious disease. A deep reddish purple color shows that the animal has not been killed, but that it died a natural death A marblelike appearance, produced by layers ot fat interposed between the fleshy fibers, is possessed by none but good meat. A tasteful papery for a square waste-paper basket consists of two festoons of plush or satin; peacock blue is a good choice, alternating with two deep crocheted points of beige color or paleblue maerame cord in wheels, or any other pretty designs, and finished with heavy tassels of the cord. Rosettes and cords, both crotJheted, finish the top and sides, and pompons of gathered plush may also be introduced if desired.