Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — The home [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The home

If when reading or sewing by lamp light a sheet of “white paper Is placed under the lamp, it will be found that a far stronger light la shed all over the room.

To clean bath and bedroom ware rub with dry salt on a piece of coarse flannel. This removes all dirt, does not injure the surfaoe and leaves all bright and shining. Hot water should be poured Into a thin glass in preference to a thick one. For the inside of the latter expands before the heat has time to reach the outer surface and a breakage occurs. To remove ink stains from table linen and other white articles squeeze the juice of a fresh lemon over the stain; let it remain on a minute; then rinse in warm water, and the stain wtlt~have disappeared. best way to clean out lead pipes without the expensive aid of a plumber Is to pout a strong solution of concentrated lye down the A. The lye will dissolve hair, lint and, indeed, all animal and vegetable matter, and so open the pipes. Warm bread or cake, and, in fact, warm food of any kind, should never be put away in a covered tin or dish. The steam makes molding certain. Vegetables become soggy and unfit for food when treated In this careless manner.