Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — Valuable Hints. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Hints.

When ice is required at night for i mk person, break it into smell pieces, md if it be scarce and care must be tukft to prevent its melting, put into i soup plate, cover with another plate, uui put between two feather pillows. Never wear a good woolen dress intc die kitchen without the protection of a large apron. No flannel that has not been carefully •vasjied, and is not perfectly soft and fleecy, should eve* touch the skin of an infant. We novel had any patience with a uother or nurse, who would stick pins :arelessly into her dress, collar, or rib>oii, thereby inflicting painful wounds upon her innocent victim. Not a pin, •xceptiug a safety pin, should be usee ■out a child, and when buttons will per m the office of pin* they should be de to do so.

To mothers, aunties, or sisters win do up the school luncheon for the young ters: pray make it as attractive in ap pi-arance as possible. There is truly nothing very attractive about a thick piece of dry bread and butter and a cookie, all rolled in a piece of coarß' hrown paper, washed down by a drink from the cup that “goes the minds." Huch a luncheon will often impair the appetite of a fastidious or delicate child, and he will go without rather than eat it. A little care in the cutting of the bread; the doing up of the cookies 01 crullers in tissue or white paper; the Bauoe or custard put into a pretty oup, and all wrapped in a clean white napkin within a bright tin pail, or, better still, t pretty lunch basket, will, by the pleas are it gives the child, well repay the sxtra care and thought.— Jiural Hev Yorker.

4e ( at fa fhfumftloyea of a .«&*** hadfceen trembling in tbew boots o\« irtauFtionof wages, when an agent, dispatched from headquarters, passed ■long the line and said to ths Various itation officials: *1 am happy to inform you that there •ill be no cut in salaries. ” "Good. My salary is so small that 1 •raid hardly stand a cut of 5 per cent. ’ "The road is not making any money, hut the President feels that every era ploys is earning his salary, and that, perhaps, the fall business may bring us •ot all right. Put your name down fee what yon can afford.” •On what?” •Why, on this paoor. It k a sahrtription to buy the President a $2,009 •fiver tea-set as a token of the estees «f the employes. Let’s see ? Yon get S6OO per year. If vow wi your nan* down for SSO you wfil ho giving all you m afford. Bert Mrt, Hr. Bkuk be uo out keSkrW* --P3