Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1914 — ALL AROUND the HOUSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ALL AROUND the HOUSE

Lime powder well sprinkled where cockroaches abound will drive them away. If bacon is soaked in water for a few minutes before frying it will prevent the fat from running. When starching holland pinafores put a little strong tea into the starch. This keeps the garments in good color. When boiling fowls or fish add to the water in which they are boiled the juite of half a lemon. This will make them beautifully white. If moths are In a carpet spread a damp towel ovqr*the part and iron It dry with a hot iron. The heat and steam will kill the worms and egga. When making roly-poly pudding, after spreading the paste with jam, sprinkle a layer of fine bread crumbs before rolling and tying up. This prevents the jam from boiling out Old nail holes in wood may be filled up by mixing sawdust with glue till it is of the consistency of stiff paste. Press this compound into the holes and it will become as hard as the wood Itself. Before using a new saucepan fill It with water, with a lump of soda and some potato peelings, and let it boil for some hours. Then wash out thoroughly, and all danger from poisoning from the tinned lining will be gone.

Frank Humston, for many years a resident of Monon, and for one term clerk of the White circuit court, is to succeed Harry Alexander as the passenger agent in charge of the Indianapolis division of the Monon. For some years Mr. Humston has been the agent at Hloomington. He is a hustler and possesses the qualities of efficiency coupled with geniality that. will make him a valuable man for the Monon in Indianapolis.