East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-02-28
Household Hints.

The annexed valuable information
Immediately connected with the duties
.and requirements Of a housewife, is
from DIR. Halls Journal Of He0ith.
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
drinks in the stomach antagonizes the
disease engendering damps, fogs aud
miasma, which impregnate the air
about sunrise, in all countries, especi-
ally in warm weather.
Potatoes may be kept n very long
time from rottlng, III a cellar protect
cd against frost, by dusting the floor
or bin with lime; then put down n
layer of potatoes six inches thick /;
then dust with lime, another layer of
potatoes, &c. 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
without fulljpg them up, thus; Put
one ox-gall in three gallons Of cold
water, in which immerse the garment,
and squeeze or pound, (not wring) it,
until the spots are removed then
thoroughly wash in cold water, else
the odor Of the gall becomes very dis
agreeable.
If burning fluid or benzole are used
to remove grease or other stains, let
it be at least two yards from candles,
gas, lamp or fire. Valuable lives are
lost every year by neglecting this pre-
caution.
Milk is kept good longer, if it is
boiled, evaporated, condensed, or kept
still at temperature Of about forty
degrees. If heated three days in snc-
cession in summer, and two in winter,
las per Guy Lassac's experiments up
to the boiling point, it will keep two
months without souring.
CARPET SwEEPING.--Draw the broom
to you with short, quick strokes, TAX
ing up the dirt every half yard, in a
dust pan, or at each stair, and thus
avoid working the dirt into the cleaner
parts. Never use tea leaves, paper or
damp grass, TO collect the dust, let
the dust pan do that.
Erysipelas, disease often coming
without prclnonition, and ending fa.
tally within three or four days is
sometimes promptly cured by apply
ing poultice of raw cranb,rrics,
pounded and placed Oh the part over
night.
Costive bowels have an agreeable
remedy in the free use of Tomatoes at
meals - their seeds 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 repedy
of equal efficiency in the same direc-
ton is cracked wheat-that is, COM
mon white wheat grains. hr"l"'' = :
IL. a. ,wa meals. of the day, Win
Common sweet CIDER, boiled down
To one-hs,if makes a most excellent
syrup for coughs ana cuiir, ~. -Ln
dren-i, pleasant to the taste, and
will keep throughout the year i'll a
cold cellar.
Iu recovering from an illness. the
system has craving for some pleas
ant acid drink. This is found in
cider, which is placed on the fire as
made, and allowed to come to a boil,
then cooled, put in casks and kept i'll
cool cellar. Treated thus, it re-
mains for many months as good as
the day it was made.
We once saved the life of an infant
which had been inadvertently drugged
with laudanum, and was fast sinking
into sleep which knows no awaken
ing, by giving it strong coffee cleared
with the white of an egg, tea%boon-
full every FIVE minutes, until it ceased
to seem drowsy.