The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-17
Household Hint.

The annexed valuable information,
immediately connected with the duties
and requirements of a housewife, is
from Dr.. Halls journal Of Health
The earlier the breakfast, the more
work will be got through with during
the day, and the better health viii the
household have, because food or warm
drink in the stomach antagonizes the
disesse-engendering damps, fogs, and
miasma which impregnste the air ABOUT
sunrise, in all countries, especially in
warm weather.
Potatoes may be kept 4 very Icing
time from rotting, in q cellar protected
against frost, by busting the floor or bin
with lime; then put down q layer Of
potatoes six inches thick; then dust
with lime another layer of potatoes,
etc. One bushel or more of lime to
forty of potatoes they sprout least in
the darkness.
Flannel shirts, or other woolens,
should have grease spots removed with
out fulling them up, thus Put one
ox.gall in three gallons Of cold water,
in which immerse the garment, and
squeeze or pound mot Wring) il, until
the spots are removed then thorough
ly wash in cold water, else the odor of
the gall becomes very disagreesble.
II burning fluid or benzole are used
to remove grease or other stains, let 1t
be at least two yards from candles, gas,
lamp or fire. Valuable lives are lost
every year by neglecting this precau-
ton.
Milk is kept good longer, if it is
boiled, ey~apOrRted, condensed, or kept
still at a temperature OF about forty
degrees. If heated three days IN sue.
cesGion IN summer, and two in winter
las per Guy LhlssaCa experiments, } ny
TO the boiling point, i will keep tWC
months notwithstanding
CARPET SWEEPING-Draw the broom
to YOU with short, quick strokes taking
ND the dirt every half yard, ir adusi
nan. or at each stair, and thus ayois
working the di-t into the cleaner parts
Never use tealeaves or damp grsss, q
collect the dust, lei the dust pan d.
that
Ervsipelas, 4 disease oiien cOmini
without premonition, and ending fatal
lv within three or four days, Is some
times promptly cured by applying
3 Doultice Of raw cranbernes, pounded
, and plac d on the part over night
1, Costiye bowels have an agreeable
, remedy IN the free use OF tomatoes q
, maals-their seed acting the way o
seeds Of white mustard OF hgs, by stimu
lsting the coats of the bowels owe
which they pass in their whole state, {
increased action. A remedy OF eGua
efficiency in the same direction !
: cracked wheRt-that is, common whit
wheat grains, broken in two or tire.
! piec~s. and then boiled until It Is as sol
a. rice. and eat mainly a. two meals G
the day, with butter or molasses.
Common sweet cider, boiled down {
one half. makes a most excellent syru
j for coughs and colds, Tor children
pleasant 20 the taste, and Will Ree
z throughout the year in q cold cellar
In recovering from an Illness, IN
system has a craving for some pleasar
10 acid drink. This is found in eide
i which is placed on the fire IS mad
C; and allowed 10 come to a boil, the
cooled. nut i ncasks and kept IN n co
cellar Treated thus, 1t remains Il
! many months as good as the day II va
~ made.
W. once saved the life OF an infaT
@, which had been inadvertently drugge
e.. with laudanum, and was fast sinkir
into the sleep from which there was
waking, by giving it strong eoh'
A cleared with the white Of an egg, 8 te
spoonful every five minutes, until
a ceased to seem drowsy.