Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — For the Household. [ARTICLE]

For the Household.

Hot irons should never be used for embroidery. Spiral mignonette is used in great profusion for flower decorations. Cornelias in pots are much used in decorating hall, drawing and dining room. Alum is one of the best additions to make whitewash of lime that will not rub off. ‘ - Mirrors should not be hung where the sun shines directly upon fhAm, > To relieve hiccough at onoe, take a lump of sugar saturated with vinegar. Hemorrhage of the lungs or stomach may be quickly stopped by small doses of salt. A broom may be kept in good condition for a Ion? time if it is washed ouoe a week in clean hot suds and then hung up to dry. An orange eaten before breakfast cures the craving for liquors and improves a disordered stomach. If you wish to produce glue that will sesist water, boil one pound of glue in two quarts of skimmed milk. Folding screens for holding eight or ten photographs are handsome when covered with plush or velvet.

To prevent sausages from bursting when cooking, never make a hole in them with a fork while turning them. Therags for Japanese ornaments of all kinds for rcoms, halls, parlors chambers and boudoire, is on the increase. Among house decorations none are so popular as jardinieres of fine majolica filled with artificial plants and flowers. Those who have remnants of plush ow take them to tbe picture framer to be made into plush frames aud easels. A thin coat of varnish applied to straw matting will make it much more durable, and keep the matting fresh and new. To extract ink from cotton, silk or woolen goods, dip the spots in spirits of turpentine, and let it remain for several hours then rub thoroughly between the hands, and it will all disappear without changing either the color or texture of the fabric. Dried bark of sassafras root put around dried fruit will protect it from worms. Raw starch, applied with a little water as paste, will general by remove all stains from bed ticking, To remove spots from furniture, take four ounces of vinegar, two ounces of sweet oil, one onnoe of turpentine. Mix, and apply with a flannel cloth. Spirits of ammenia, diluted with water if applied with a sponge or flannel to discolored spots of the carpets or garments, will often restore the color. Soot falling on the carpets from open chimneys or carelessly handled stovepipes, if thickly covered with salt, can be, brushed up without injury to the carpet. Jefferson Ullery was acquitted, Wednesday, at Greenfield, of blowing up a saloon at New Palestine, with dynamite. The trial attracted much attention, and a large part of Sugar Creek township was in attendance.