Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — AROUND THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE HOUSE.

An ingenious housekeeper has fashioned what she calls the most useful thing in. her sewing-room, out of an ordinary soap box. This is how she did it: First, she secured the cover to the box with a couple of strong hinges. Then she lined it throughout with blue cheese-cloth. The outside she covered with cretonne in blue with a pattern of apple-blossoms running over it. The completed whole she uses for odds and ends of. unsightly sewing, such as stockings that need mending and half-finished articles that must lie kept at hand, but that give a cluttered appearance to the sewing-room when left lying about. The cost of manufacturing at home this utility box is less than $2, whilo it is, when in working order, worth SSO t« any orderly housewife. At this season of the year, when many heavy articles, counterpanes, etc., ate to be washed up before winter, it is well ta know of an easy and perfectly safe method. Into an ordinary-sized boiler, half full of boiling water, put One teacup ol this mixture: One pound Babbitt’s potash, one ounce salts of tartar, one ounca muriate of ammonia; add the clothes and boil half an hour; rinse through tw« waters aadfcj.