Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — THE HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

THE HOUSEHOLD.

Making Bedding. A good many housekeepers seize the Interval before the house cleaning time to make up bedding. Almost everyone knows how to make a cheesecloth comfortable, than which nothing at the same small expense is so pretty, light and desirable. But while a great many may know how to make one, they may not know how to manage with the cotton, so that it is nearly as light as eider down, says an exchange. To make a very thick comfortable take five one-pound rolls of cotton batting, unroll it carefully and hang on a clotheshorso in front of a register or hot fire. Let It get Just as hot as possible, taking care that it does not burn. The heat separates the minute fibres, causing the cotton to expand to nearly twice Its original bulk. Cut the cheesecloth into J lengths of about two and a half yards each, two widths being enough for each Side. Pink and baby blue make a pretty combination. If the blue is to bo taken for the under side, spread it, after sewing together, very smoothly on a bed or some other convenient place. Next lay the cotton batting on lengthwise, cutting it the same length as the cheesecloth; it will be found to be about the same width. The next layer should go on crosswise, the next lengthwise, and so on till all is used. Spread the ping cover very smoothly over the whole and tuft It with pink woorsted, button-hole stitching around the edge with the same. . Coverlets made of white cheesecloth can be washed successfully If they are dried quickly in a bright sun and the four corners of the quilt pinned to the clothesline, spreading it out horizontally. Hatful Uinta. Mildew may be removed by rubbing common yellow soap on it, then salt and starch over that; rub ail in well and lay in the bright sunshine. A good remedy for damp, moist hands is four ounces of cologne water and one-half once of tincture of belladonna. Rub the hands with this several times a day. A goblet of hot water taken Just after rising, before breakfast, has cured thousands of Indigestion, and no simple remedy is more widely recommended by physicians to dyspeptics. Colored tennis flannels should bo washed ip water about the temperature of the room they are washed In, with white soap of any kind, and rinsed thoroughly In water of the same temperature. Steamisg the face at night over a bowl of very hot water, and then bathing it with very cold water, is a simple method of giving it a Russian bath, and will tend to make the skin whiter and smother and the flesh firmer.