Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — THE HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE HOUSEHOLD.

Kelp for the Tired. With such a simple arrangement as is here shown in the kitchen, the tired wife may have all the water she wants at a moment’s notice, without the necessity

of going out in the cold, or any over-ex-ertion by carrying it. A zinc-lined box is mounted on heavy brackets at the top of the kitchen, or, still better, on the floor of the attic. The heavy pipe shown leads from a spring or well into it, or it may be made very large in the attic and supplied from the eaves. If the well be depended upon a force pump will be needed. When water has risen in tha box to a certain level It flows out of the surplus pipe shown. The pipe running to the sink comes out of the bottom of the box and can drain off all the water it holds, when it will at once fill again. On a large scale, supplying the whole house, the plan is an excellent, but costly one. To fix for the kitchen alone is simple and attended with little expense. A five-gallon can in which castor oil came, can be bought at ■ a drug store for 10 cents. The housewife will gladly wash It clean. Then a little work, a few feet of galvanized pipe and joints and a borrowed pipe wrench will complete a job which may save a doctor’s or an undertaker’s bill and the most precious member of any American borne.—[Hollister Sage, In Rural New Yorker. TMi(i Worth Knowing. Clean piano-keys with a soft rag dipped ib alcohol. To clean a black silk dress, use a sponge dipped in strong black tea, cold. Take egg stains from silver by rubbing with a wet rag which has been dipped in common table salt To clean a teakettle, take it away from the fire and wash off with a rag dipped In kerosense, followed by a rubbing with a dry flannel cloth. To clean ceilings that have been blackened by smoke from a lamp, wash off with rags that have been dipped in soda water. To mend cracks in stoves and stovepipes, make a paste of ashes and salt with water, and apply. A harder and more durable cement is made of iron fillings, sal ammoniac and water.