Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1874 — Care of Fanners’ Boots and Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Care of Fanners’ Boots and Shoes.

A farmer who has been accustomed to wear thick boots for more than forty years past says: Before wearing the boots give the bottoms a good coating of tallow or coal tar. Mid dry itjn; then oil the “uppers” with castor oil, abbut one tablespoonful to each boot; then oil them twice a week with the castor oil, when one teaspoonful will be sufficient. If the weather should be rainy, or you are compelled to work in water during the day, wash your boots clean at night, hold them by the fire until quite warm, and oil them while wet, and you will have no trouble about your boots getting hard and shrinking up so that you cannot get them on. If the leather should become red give a coat of ordinary shoe blacking before oiling. The effect of castor oil is to soften the leather, while it fills the pores and prevents the water from entering. I have stood in mud.and water two or three inches deep for ten hours a day for a week without feeling any dampness or having any difficulty an getting my boots on or off. Of course, if they are kept constantly wet they must be oiled every night. Some may think that castor oil is too expensive, but as so little is required each time the cost is trifling. Fifty cents, or less, will furnish a sufficient quantity to last as long as an ordinary pair of boots, and they, will wear much longer when the oil is used than with anything I ever tried. When boots are exposed to mud and wet several hours a day a coat of shellac varnish applied after the leather is oiled will exclude the water better than any other material. — Cor. N. Y. Herald. While American women are so shy of going out to service, it is said that many of the Eastern college students eke out their income by spending the summer as waiters in the larger country hotels. One landlord in New Hampshire says he has forty waiters of this stripe engaged for this season. - —A well-known physician says that he considers the following prescription for purifying the blood as the best he has ever used: One ounce of yellow dock, one-half ounce of horse radish, one quart of hard cider. Dose, one wine-glassful 'four times a day. A five weeks’ Normal School for Pian ists and Organists will begin at Evanston, 111., July 8, offering superior advantages. Full particulars can be had by addressing W. S. B. Matthews, Chicago, 111. —A Connecticut lady remained too long on a train to kiss female friends, the other day, and, trying to get off after it had started, was thrown on her face. “If ever I kiss anybody again!” she said, revengefully, as she arose, “ any woman, at least,” she added, thoughtfully, “then it will be when I am crazy. ”