Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1915 — Hints to Housewives. [ARTICLE]

Hints to Housewives.

Sweep the dirt under the kitchen cabinet. The room looks just as clean and it takes elss time than to take it up in a dustpan. If ever it is necessary to choose between an afternoon at the bridge club ad cleaning up the house, always choose the former. Buy something from every agent that comes to the house whether you need it or not. It makes business good for the agent. Let the pet dog sleep on the ifoot of the 'bed on colcl nights. It gets the covers full of hair, hut the dog likes it. Neglect to fix the furnace when going .out on a cold day, so that uhe fire can also go out. To make the biseuits into which you have forgotten to put baking powder more palatable, throw them out and mix another hatch, adding the baking powder. Use as many eggs as possible when, the price is high. It Increases the cost of high living and thus enlivens domestic conversation. Have dinner late the night you are going to the theatre. It adds so much to domestic felicity and the ,oy of the play /when it is necessary to break one’s neck to get into one’s seat before the play begins. In the summer time, when the weather is uncertain, leave all the windows up when you go away for ;h eday. The rain will destroy the finish of the hardwood floors, but the house will be cool when you return.