Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1913 — Hints for Housekeepers. [ARTICLE]

Hints for Housekeepers.

If your husband is'about to make a trip tn a sleeping car it is a good idea to empty his fountain pen, quietly and unobtrusively, before he starts. There are several ways of cooking cabbage, but you get about the same smell from all of them. Experience has shown that unless the roof of an ordinary tenement house is reshingled as often as once in eighteen or twenty years it will leak in spots. It is hard, however, to make the owner or agent of the house believe this. It greatly troubled by the blackening of the mantles on your gas burners try shutting off the gas and using electricity for a while. It Is better to put your money into good books than to hide it away in cracked old.ieapots.