Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — HOUSEHOLD NOTES. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

'No house can have too many tables; the comers need them, along with the cozy efiairs. We must learn to make otir home evenings agreeable/before society will « be agreeable.—[Mrs. John Sherwood. To prevent clothes from takiqg fire, in the last rinse water add two ounces of pulverized alum. All childrens dresses should be thus treated. A smeared goblet, a soiled napkin, a sticky plate will spoil the most luxurious feast. A table well set is half spread.— [Common Sense in the Household. Make the halls inviting to the comers in, and remember that pictures placed there are not wasted, as the first impression one receives upon entering a house is a lasting one 1 . Packing boxes may bp, placed one above another and shelved and curtained, or small ones may be padded like ottomans and used for seats and cases to hold bed linen or underclothing. An interior should grow by degrees, like the layers of a pearl, though not quite so slowly, instead of attaining its maturity, like the bean stalk in the fairy tale, in the course of a few hours. To make a'sereen for the end of the piazza, measure the length from Die joist under the roof to the top rail, and then get a piece of matting as long, but as wide as liked and of whatever color you prefer, although white is best on account of not fading. Paint a bold design in oils on the side that is to show on the inside. Sew small rings on the upper end, and run a rod through them, and screw two sockets on the joist for the rod to rest in. Have a cord at each lower corner, and one in the center, with which to make it fast to the veranda Tail, and by this simple contrivance you can secure a shady spot on the warmest, day, and it wouldn’t take more than two minutes to lift it down and roll it up when a shower threatened.