Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1905 — FOR THE HOUSEWIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Extenaliatlaf Household Pest*. Dissolve two pounds of alum in three of four quarts of water. Leave it over night for the alum to dissolve. Then apply It boiling hot by means of a brush to every joint and crevice in the closet or shelves where the bugs congregate; also to the joints and crevices of bedsteads. Brush all the cracks in the floor and mop boards. Keep it boiling hot wbile using. \ Cucumber peelings laid on the shelves and plaster of parts mixed witb sugar placed in cracks are said to be fatal to insect life. Borax is a simple enemy to ants and roaches. Scatter it dry. A heavy chalk mark encircling your sugar box at a distance of four inches will surely prevent ants from troubling. If a rat or mouse gets into your pantry stuff into its hole a rag saturated with a solution of cayenne pepper. Peppermint sprigs laid around shelves and other places where mice frequent will drive them away. Chloride of lime will bring about the same result. Keep the chloride bottle corked. Another enemy to roaches is a mixture of equal parts of flour and borax distributed freely in drawers and cracks and allowed to remain. <s ■ A Kitchen Time Saver.

800 BEATKB. The cook who uses this egg beater saves the time she would otherwise lose with an old time affair, and the eggs are beaten twice as light. With no exertion whatever the crank, which is shown in the illustration, is turned, which revolves the paddle in the Jar, beating the egg light in a very short space of time. Stuffed Cabbage. Cleanse and boil a large, firm head of cabbage uulil tender; then scrape out the inside, leaving enough for a solid outer wall. With the scrapings mix a cupful of fine bread crumbs, a little salt, pepppr and celery seed and a small onion (if liked) cut fine. Beat this up with a tablespoonful of warmed butter and three eggs. Fill the cabbage with this stuffing, tie around It a strip of cloth and bake until brown. Moths In Carpet. If the moths are in a carpet turn it back and Iron on the wrong side with a hot flatiron. Then sprinkle the floor underneath liberally with turpentine, pouring it into the cracks In the floor if there are any. ltub the turpentine In, and then you can turn back your carpet. Repeat this treatment two or three days. Some people sponge the right side of the carpet with spirits of turpentine before ironing. The spirit must not be used near a light or fire. The Value of Common Salt. Besides so necessary in cooking, salt has many uses not so generally recognized. Salt cleans the palate and the coated tongue, and a salt water gargle Is splendid for sore throat. A pinch of salt on the tongue, followed ten minutes later by a drink of cold water, has been known to cure a sick headache many times. Salt hardens the gums, keeps the teeth white and sweetens the breath, consequently it is a splendid tooth wash. Added to water for cut flowers, it will long preserve their freshness. Salted water and alcohol is splendid for strengthening the muscles. It will also check small hemorrhages. Remember In a Sickroom— That medicine bottles should be kept out of sight. That garrulous friends should be treated In the same wise fashion. That a rubber ice bag is as useful as a hot water bag. That everything about the room should be scrupulously clean. That it is sometimes safer to humor sick people than to argue with them. That rapid recovery from illness often depends more upon nourishing food than upon medicine. That sweet smelling flowers should never be permitted in a room where there is a very sick person. Rockefeller aa a Story Teller. John D. Rockefeller is not the dull, dry lecturer at his Sunday school ns some would believe. He likes a good story, and he tells one well. When he essays the Irish dialect, if hid behind a screen from his auditors, they would believe he was a true sou of the Emerald Isle. On his last visit to nls class he told of a Celt who had heard of his (Rockefeller’s) eu?Paous wealth. A. man was telling him about it. “ ‘Why, do you see pointing to an elgfit day affair that was ticking away on the mantelpiece. “T do,’ says Pat ‘“Well, every time that pendulum swings Rockefeller gets slo.’ 14 ‘Well,’ said Pat ‘l’ll stop some of his money today. I’ll stop the dock.’" —iNew York American.