Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — THINGS WORTH KNOWING. [ARTICLE]

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

A bag of hot sand held to the afflicted part relieves neuralgia. Warm borax water, applied daily, Is a speedy cure for dandruff. Boiled cabbage is much sweeter when the water is changed in the boiling. 4 If nuts are eaten by a sufferer of dyspepsia let him salt them, and the evil effects disappear. Fried onions, if boiled for a little time previous to frying, in milk, will be comparatively odorless. A generous supply of hot, rather strong lemonade, if taken, at bedtime, will break up a severe cold. In. making butter do not allow the milk to stand any great length of time. Old cream makes bitter butter. Did you know that if you place tough meat in ji bath of vinegarwater for a little time it will become tender? Be careful to ventilate your bedrooms ; it will prevent morning headaches and the disagreeable lassitude consequent upon the breathing of bad air for any length of time. To remove the rust from flat-irons rub them upon a sheet of sand-paper and finish bv rubbing upon beeswax and salt placed upou a piece of tough brown paper. Keep your irons in a dry place between ironing days, I find it an excellent plan to drive large nails in a warm, dry corner of my kitchen and hang them in a double row upon the nails. It is said that a cup of strong coffee will remove the odor of onions from the breath. Onions should be eaten more in the raw state. They constitute one of the finest medicines mother nature has bestowed upon her ailing children. During a sad time at Corinth, Miss., when the Improvised hospitals (tents, large and small) dotted the ground at the time of war, a lady had gone to join her husband for a time, and took upon herself the office of nurse. “I am going into town,” said she one morning. “Boys, what shall I bring you?” Expecting to hear some delicacy named, she was the more astonished when the sick soldiers joined, in the feeble roar of “onions."