Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1904 — Worth Knowing. [ARTICLE]

Worth Knowing.

A good housewife will never allow anything to go to waste. Instead of buying dusters or window cloths she will make use of her discarded pocket handkerchiefs, scarfs and soft silk petticoats and will find she has something better than she could buy anyway. There Is very apt to be a draft at the head of a brass or iron bed, and a little curtain of some pretty cretonne will add to your comfort and improve the appearance of your room. Use dark green blinds in a bedroom. It will prevent the glare so trying to your eyes. An Ingenious Housekeeper. An Ingenious housekeeper has devised a towel rack for her kitchen which works with ropes and pulleys. She says that, besides finding that the towels dry more rapidly when near the celling, where the air Is warmer, she Is glad of the extra space. This same housekeeper, not having a dark closet in which to store her preserves and Jellies, has covered the shelves of her closet with black cotton. She lets the cotton hang over In a curtain, and the light Is excluded as well as If the place had been built originally for storing purposes. Bine In the Bedroom. A rather light shade of blue makes a charming background for a black walnut bedroom Act. The bed, when dressed with one of the new spreads In the soft blue of new denim, with bands of blue and white cretonne and side draperies of the same over white muslin at the windows, gives a strikingly dainty effect. Ntgnaalmaii. “Yes, Emily Is to have eight bridesmaids.” "Why so many?” "She wants to include all the girls to whom the bridegroom has at various times been engaged.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Determined. f "Janie Is resolved to go on the stage, Isn’t she?” "Yes. I told her there were 6,000 actors and actresses out of work just now, and she said that would give her n much better chance to get a place on the stage."—Brooklyn Eagle. Th« Irony of Fsto. If you should ’strive with all your might To lead mankind to clearer light. If you evolve some mighty plan To benefit your fellow man And spend ydur days In earnest ton And nightly burn the midnight off. Tbs ohanoea are—’tie sad. but true— That no on# will taka note of you. But if you venture out some day When toe and sleet beset your way And travel with Incautious feet A down the treacherous, frosted street And of a sudden take a bump, A gre worn a. Ignominious thump— Than people laugh. 'Tls sad. but trueMoet every one takes note of you. —Washington Star.