Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-12-29
EVENING STAR.
Household Hints.

The annexed valuable information immedi-
ately connected with the duties and req uire-
hsnts Of housewife, is from Dr. Halls Jour
The earlier the breakfast, the more work will
be got through with during the day, and the
better health will the household have, because
food or warm drink in the stomach antago-
niLes the disease engendering damps. fogs and
niasma, which impregnate the air about sun
rise, IN all countries, especially in warm
Potatoes may be kept a very long time from
rotting, in a cellar protected against frost, by
busting the floor or bin with lime; then put
down a layer Of potatoes six inches thick then
dust with lime, another layer OF potatoes, etc.
One bushel or more of lime TO forty of pota-
toes; they sprout least in the darkness.
Flannel shirts, or other woolens, should have
grease spots removed without falling them up,
thus: Put one OK gall in three gallons OF cold
water, in which immerse the garment, and
spots are removed; tnen thoroughly wash in
cold water, else the odor OF the gall becomes
very disagreeable.
II burning fluid or benzole are used to re-
move grease or other stains, let it be at least
two yards from candles, gas, lamp or fire.
Valuable lives are lost every year by neglect
ing this precaution.
Milk is kept good longer, if II is boiled, eyap.
GRATED, condensed, or kept still at a tempera-
tnre of about forty degrees. If heated three
days in succession in summer, and two in
winter, las per Guy Lussac's experimental mp
10 the boiling point 1t will keep two months
without sOuring.
CARPET SWEEPING.-DraW the broom TO You
with short quick strokes, taking up the dirt
every half ard in a dust-pan, or at each stair,
and thus avoid working the dirt into the clean.
er parts. Never use tea leaves, paper or damp
Grass, TO collect the dust, let the dust-pan do
that
Erysipelas. a disease often coming without
premOnItiOn, and ending fatally within three
or four days, is sometimes promptly cured by
applying poultice of raw cranberries, pound
ed and placed on the part over night.
COstiye bowels have an agreeable remedy in
the free use Of tomatoes az meals-their seed
acting the way of seeds of white mustard or
figs, by stimulating the coats of the bowels
over which they pass in their whole state, to
increased action. A remedy of equal efficien-
cy in the same direction is cracked wheat
that is, common white wheat grains, broken in
two or three pieces, and then boiled until il is
as soft as rice, and eaten mainly at two meals
OF the day, with butter or molasses.
Common sweet cider, boiled down to one
half, makes most excellent syrup for coughs
and colds, for children-is pleasant to the taste,
and will keep throughout the year in cold
cellar.
In recovering from an illness, the system has
craving for some pleasant acid drink. This
is found in cider, which IL placed on the fire
made, and allowed 10 come TO a boil, then
cooled, put in casks and kept in a cool cellar.
Treated thus, il remains for many months as
good as the day il was made
We once saved the life of an infant which
had been inadvertently drugged with lauda-
mum, and was fast sinking into the sleep from
which was no Weakening, by giving il strong
coffee cleared with the white of an egg q tea
spoonful every five minutes, until il ceased 10
seem drowsy.