Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — USEFUL HINTS [ARTICLE]

USEFUL HINTS

That Should Be Bead and Remembered. Don’t eat cold meats. Don’t chill the stomach after eating with Acold drink. If you want to, and can take a nap after a meal, do so. Don’t give beer to children. Because some persons do is no justification any more than the existence of a healthy veteran soldier with bullets in his body warrants you shooting yourself full of bullets. Don’t overseason your food. It prevents, if not ruins, the natural taste. If a woman, support your heavy dresses from the shoulders. In freezing ice-cream,! when the ice is scarce, pack the frt e :er only threequarters full of ice and salt and finish with newspapers, and the difference in the time of freezing and quality of the cream is perceptible from the. result when the freezer is packed full of ice. After removing the dasher it is better to cork up the cream and cover it tightly with a paoking of newspapers than to use more ice. The newspapers retain the cold already in the ice better than a packing of cracked ice and salt, which must have crevices to admit the air. Are you ever annoyed boots? ‘ And do you know what causes the squeak? And would you find the remedy? _ Generally the sound proceeds from the two soles of your boot or shoe, the upper and the lower rubbing together. If you will take a few moments’ time and anoint the soles with oil, dry the oil in and anoint again, and then dry again, repeating the process three or four thnie, the oil will penetrate the first solp, and, presto, the squeak will disappear. It is stated that if a piece of dyed eloth is dampened and rubbed on very clean, white paper it will leave no stain if the dye is a ‘ ‘fasf ’ one. Another •test is to lay the cloth between two sheets of paper and iron it. There should be no marks in this case oilher. Again, if the cloth is covered with a perforated sheet of thick paper and exposed for some hours to sunlight, the color of the exposed parts should not fade.