Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1881 — Handy Hints for the Housekeeper. [ARTICLE]

Handy Hints for the Housekeeper.

A perplexed housekeeper wants to know what she Shall do with the tin cans that from day to day accumulate about the house fruit cans, meat cans of all kinds, cans, cans, and a thousand cans. Well, if you keep a board-ing-house, yon might throw them into the street, right in front of the house, as a bait for the homeless man seeking a boarding-house, If you have a hornet however, you might utilise the cans in many ways. Yeu might take the tomato cans fill them with soft, rich earth, and plant them, and by and by a whole handful of all sorts of weeds would come up. Then you could take the can to the pottery and have the potfc r twist a nice terracotta vase about it* so as to completely hide the can, and thus at a trifling expense,.not over a few dollars, you could utilize your old tomato can as a garden vas£. - Or you could take a lobster can, and bore three holes at .equal distances in the sides, close to the open end. Then cover the can as thickly as you need with fine piast c material used in the manufacture of cheap statuettes, and

employ some good artist to fashion it in graceful shape and beautiful designs. Then fasten bright brass chains in the three holes and hang it in a hook in the porch roof, and you will have a handsome hanging basket that need not cost you more than $5. If you should break a kerosene lamp, ~ save the foot of it, and with a bit of red flannel and merino and some white crochet cotton make a pin cushion of it, stuffing the flannel and merino out in a large, irregular shaned sphere, and with the crochet cotton work “lOw thE giVEr” on it. Then set it in the spare room on the dresser, care being taken to have the cushion fastened on so looselythat it will cant a little t one .-ide. Then, when the Seat wakes up in the night and sees at awful apparition in'the moonlight, he will confess all his sins, put on his clothes hindside foremost, and dropping himself out of the window, will nee In terror Into the wilderness, and never come back to spoil your best pillow-shams with his bear’s oily head again, “It isn’t what you get,” they say down in West Virginia, “that makes you rich, it’s what you save.” A few cents saved here and there in household expenses are not notieed at the time, but at the end of a year they aggregate enough to pay the interest on a second-hand hoe; and if the newspaper instructions in domestic economy are faithfully followed out, the careful housekeeper will in the course of a year spend enough, to pay-for a steam thresher. . <