Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — THE HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

THE HOUSEHOLD.

An Ideal Homemaker. The most perfect home I ever saw, writes Helen Hunt, was a little house into the sweet incense of whose fires went no costly things. A thousand dollars served as a year’s living for father, mother, and three children. But the mother was the creater of a home; her relations with the children were the most beautiful I have ever seen; every inmate of the house involuntarily looked into her face for the keynote of tbe day, and it always rang clear. From the rose bud or clover leaf, which, in spite of her hard housework, she always found time to put beside our plates at breakfast, down to the utory she had on hand to read in the evening, there was no intermission of her influence. She has always been and always will be my ideal of a mother, wife, and homemaker. If to her quick brain, loving heart an'l her face had been added and appliances of wealth and enlargements of wide culture, hers would have been absolutely the ideal home. As it wis, it was the best I have ever seen. Flints to tile Household. A towel wet at one end and pinned around the neck will cure sore throat. If your wife is the best woman in the world tell hot so; it will keep her young and lengthen her days. IVhaT do you tbink-of a man who sits around the stove smoking his pipe to the annoyance of his wife? A TEASPooNFur, of powdered alum sprinkled in a barrel of water will precipitate all impure matter to the bottom. Headache, toothache, backache, or most any joint ache will be relieved D.y heating the feet thoroughly with the shoes on. Many a man, nnd perhaps more women, would hare been saved from insanity if they tad resolutely obtained sufficient sleep. Pine may be made to look like some beautiful wood by giving repeated coats of hot linseed oil and rubbing hard after each coat. According to the Medical Record castor oil has not f (tiled in any case to remove warts to which it was applied once a day for two to six weeks. Of cooked fruits, baked or roasted are first on the list; then stewed,then boiled. All fruits are better for having the skins taken off previous to eating. It is said that a Paris laundryman has discaded all soaps, sodas and boiling powders. He merely uses plenty of water and boiled jiotatoes, and can cleanse, without employing any alkali, the worst soiled linens, cottons or woolen*. Dr. Hutchinson recommends for the treatment of bleeding at the nose the plunging of tbs feet and hands of the patient in water as hot as can be borne. He says that the most rebellious cases have never resisted this mode of treatment.