Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — THE HOUSEHOLD. Rest. [ARTICLE]

THE HOUSEHOLD.

Rest.

When you are so tired as to feel “ready to drop,” sit down, comb your hair and change your shoes. This will rest tho head and feet, and give new strength for tho work which at house-cleaning or moving-time refuses to be postponed. That lying down ten minutes will rest one much more than sitting down has to be reiterated often for tho benefit of those ambitious women who sometimes scorn to rest in this way during the daytime, and others who fear that It will bo known to thoir discredit if they so indulge themselves. 1 once heard Mrs. Lincoln talk upon this topic, and I wish every farmer’s wife might have heard tho woman who has made housekeeping a study toll how to get rest enough to insure health. It was the wisdom not of tho theorist, but ono who has so nearly overworked as to have found It needful' to study means of making good housekeeping possible without slowly killing the housewife. —New England Farmer. it u Sum 1. That salt will curdle now milk; hence, in preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc.,the salt should not be added until tho dish is prepared. 3. That clear, boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour tho water through tho stain aud thus prevent It spreading over the surface. 3. That ripe tomatoes will romove Ink and other stains from white cloth, alsofrom tho hands. 4. That a teaspoon of turpentino boiled: with white clothes will aid In the whitening process. 5. That boiled starch is much Improved' by the addition of a little sperm salt or gum arable dissolved. (3. That beeswax and salt will make rusty flatirons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of beeswax In a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot rub them first with wax rag. then scour with a paper ordoth sprinkled with salt. 7. That blue ointment and kerbsenor. mixed In equal proportions and applied to the bedstead is an unfailing bedbug remedy, as a coat of whltowashis for the walls of a log house. 8. That kerosene will soften boots orshoes that have been hardened by water,, and render them as pliable as new. 9. That kerosene will make tin tea, kettles as bright as new. Saturate a. woolen rag and rub with It. It will also remove stains from varnished furniture. 10. That cool rain water and soda will remove machine grease from washable, fabrics.

Hints to HouiiektMipor*. A i.iTTi.K ammonia in tepid water wilf soften and cleanse the skin. Gas is always objectionablo in a sickroom, as it exhausts the air, and in bedrooms generally it should not be used. Oi,i> brass may be cleaned to look like - new by pouring strong ammonia on it, and scrubbing with a scrub brush; rinso in clear water. For burns, sweet oil and cotton aro the standard remedies. If they are not at hand sprinkle the burned part wiithw flour, and wrap loosely with » soft elbth. Don’t remove the dressing until the inflammation subsides, as it will break the> new skin that is forming. Am, delicate and fancy hosiery should be soaked in salt and water before wearing, and stains of leather on stockings can be takcu out by dipping them ink*, chlorine water before putting them intosoapsuds. Black hosiery is dipped in. water in which is a little ox gall. Bags of Chinese matting gilded witiv’ gold paint, and tied with a sash ribbon just above the fringe of the matting,, make pretty receptables for papers or pictures. The bag should be hung across a corner niche, and if cheery heads of children peep above the rim, the cornet has a very picturesque air. A comfort in a sickroom is a wooden bed-rest, which, whpn placed behind tho pillows, enables the patient to sit up easily. Another contrivance which I have seen answer admirably is a very iong net, the ends of which were fastened to the bedposts, and, being passed behind the patient and containing tho pillows, formed a secure means of resting, him when sitting up.