Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — Charcoal. [ARTICLE]

Charcoal.

If housekeepers better understood the nature of charcoal, there would be a great deal of it .employed about kitchens arid in cupboards where food is kept. There is no more powerful deodorizer in the world than charcoal. A. few lumps of it, each the size of an egg, laid in a cupboard, will effectually prevent that dinnerroom smell which many persons find very offensive, and a piece of fresh charcoal placec in a clothes-press "will often prevent the unpleasant smell which clothes have when they have long been put away.—[Worthington’s Magazine.