Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — THINGS WORTH KNOWING. [ARTICLE]

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Coffee cake should be wrapped white warm in a napkin and there re main until cut. One-third of a teacupful of molasses is a good substitute for a wine glass of branc.y in fruit cake or pudding. Buy bay soap by the quantity if you wish to be truly economical. Stand the bars on edge, one above another, with as much open space as possible between them. They will then dry out and last almost twice as long.' When any recipe includes the juice of one lemon, tne quantity used should be four teaspoonfulls, as both the size and juiceness of lemons vary. Those persons who find it necessary to hold any object nearer than fourteen inches from their eyes, who find that their eyes become dry and itching on reading, need glasses. Persons under 40 years of age should not wear glasses until the accommodating power of the eyes has been suspended, and the exact state of refraction determined by a competent ophthalmic surgeon. The spectacle glasses sold by peddlers and by jewelers generally are hurtful to the eyes of those who read much, as the Tenses are made of inferior sheet glass, and not systematically ground. No matter how perfectly the lenses may be made, unless they are mounted in a suitable frame and properly placed before the eye, ' discomforts will arise from their prolonged use. Persons holding objects too near the face endanger the safety of their eyes and incur the risk of becoming near-sighted. The near-sighted eye is an unsound eye, and should be fully corrected with a glass, notwithstanding the fact it may Bleed no aid for reading. The proper time to begin wearing glasses is just as soon as the eyes tire on being subjected to prolonged use.