Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — EVERYDAY INFORMATION. [ARTICLE]

EVERYDAY INFORMATION.

Use sulphur for mildew on roses. Sow primrose seed for winter flowering. Seeds of perennials should be sown as soon as ripe. Water plants at sundown during- the summer season. Oleander cuttings will strike root if put in a bottle filled with water. Select some shad corner for ferns and give them leaf mold to grow In. A Swedish cure for insomnia is a napkin wet in ice water and slightly wrung, laid over the eyes If troubled with headache try the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of the neck. When the hands are stained use salt and lemon juice: this will remove stains and render the hands soft and white If a constant supply of bloom is desired, the flower buds must bo cut off as soon as faded: never permit them to go to seed. . Sufferers from neuralgia are warned by a medical writer not to drink tea. but to drink freely of coffee into which the juice of a lemon has boon squeezed. Asthma may bo greatly relieved by soaking blotting or tissue paper in strong saltpeter water, drying It, and then burning it at night In the sleeping room. Hanging baskets and vases in exposed places should bo kept moist and not allowed to dry out, A thorough soaking occasionally is better than frequent sprinkling. It is not too early to prepare soil for potting, which will bo needed in the fall Cut a few sods from some old pasture and let them bo rotting during summer l.i a compost heap, with fresh stable manure. Thoroughly dry salt intended for table use, and mix it with a small proportion of corn starch, if you would overcome the tendency it has. in damp weather, to pack solidly in the salt-cel-lars or shakers. For severe hemorrhage from the nose try holding the arms of the patient up over the head for five minutes at a time. A small piece of Ice wrapped in muslin and laid directly over the top of the nose will usually give relief. A simple remedy for neuralgia is to apply grated horse-radish to the temple, when the face or head is affected, or to the wrist when the pain Is in the arm or shoulder. Prepare the horse-radish in the same manner as for table use. Rex-begonias will root rapidly during the warm weather. Set the leaves edgewise in sand, or lay them flat on the sand, staked down with bent toothpicks, being careful to keep the soil moist and partly shaded, and they will soon show life. The most simple way to clean the inside of" wash-bowls, baths, and the stationary marble basins, on which a sort of scum or deposit forms, if not very carefully cared - or. is to rub them with dry salt, it takes off all the dirt and loaves them bright and shining. If a child chokes In trying to swallow a button, penny, or any article o the kind, tuin him head downward, holding him by the neck and heels. If the offending article does not roll out of hit mouth, administer a dose of castor oil to aid the passage through the stomach and intestines A simple remedy for round shoulders is to stand facing a corner of the room, and with hands extended on the wall In either direction, and the feet firmly placed, to move the body slowly toward the corner. This exercise faithfully repeated every morning will make the lorm beautifully erect