Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1906 — FOR THE HOUSEWIFE [ARTICLE]

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Hints on Kitchen Work. Clean up as you go. Don't scatter in the kitchen. Be sure to put scalding water in each saucepan or stewpan as you finish using it. Keep the spice box always replenished, and take care to let your mistress know if you are out of anything likely to be required that its place may at once be supplied. Dry your saucepans before you put them away. Pudding bags and jelly cloths require care. Wash aud hang them to dry directly after using them. Air them well before you put them away or they will smell musty. Keep them in a warm, dry place. After washing up your dishes and cleaning the dishpans scald out the sink and sink brush. Be careful not to throw anything but water down the sink lest you clog ft up. Remedy For Bunton*. Each morning after th£ bath, which should be warm (cold water is added agony), rub the bunion three or four times with fasting saliva. Allow it to dry, cover with one thickness of old linen, slit the shoe over the bunion with a sharp penknife and paste on it a piece of black court plaster to keep out the cold. It also Improves the appearance of the wounded shoe. Short shoes are the cause of bunions. Therefore they should be worn one size longer than the feet. When a Batton la Swallowed. Children sometimes swallow buttons, fruit stones, thimbles and pennies. When the mother is sure that the child has swallowed die foreign substance the child should be encouraged and even compelled to eat plentifully of mashed potatoes, thick mush and coarse bread.. Then follow with sirup of rhubarb or castor oil. Do not give the cathartic Immediately on finding out the accident, but make sure that much bulky food is taken. Renewing Youthful Joys. “Jigley says he enjoys watching n. game of baseball now just as much as he did when he was a boy.” “Yes; clever scheme of Jigley’s." “What’j that?” “Why, he always carries Into the grand stand a piece of board with a knot bole in It, and he peeps at the game through that” Philadelphia Press.