The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-07
DOMESTIC WESDuM.

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DOMESTIC WISDUM.
There is nothing better for clean
ing painted woodwork than
piece of common India rubber
rub the wood as ifyou were eras
ing pencil marks, and then pass /
dry brush over it. No water is nee
essary.
/ A writer in the Household ad
vises ladies who have furs t.
cleanse, to take nice Indian mea
in large pan and rub them will
it-using no water, nothing bu
dry meal, and they will look a.
good as new.
Borax is a useful article to have
about. A half pound of it vii
drive the cockroaches out of any
house. A large handful of the
powder to ten gallons of water
will effect saving of fifty pei
cent. IN soap. 1t is an excellent
dentifirice, and the best materia
for cleansing the scalp.
Alum and plaster of Paris
well mixed with water, and used il
a liquid state will form a very care.
full cement. 1t will be found quite
handy for many purposes. II
forms a very hard composition,
and for fixing the brasses etc, or
lamps nothing could he better.
For preserving hams and
shoulders, take ground black pep.
per-a quarter of a pound will dc
for two hundred weight, though 6
little more or less will do no harm
sprinkle first with pepper until
quite black, and then salt in the
usual way This method of pre-,
serving meat adds much to its flaw.
or.
To mend china, take a very strong
solution of gum arabic in water
and stir into plaster of Paris until
the mixture becomes of the proper
consistency. Apply it with q
brush to the fractured edges of the
china, and stick them together
In three days the article cannot
be broken in the same place. The
whiteness of the cement renders
it doubly valuable.
An excellent washing fluid may
thus be made: Three tablespoon
fuls of soda, the same quantity OF
dissolved camphor (the same as
kept for family use, to quart OF
soft water; bottle it up and
shake we'll before using. For a
large washing take four table
spoonfuls offiuid to pint of soap
make a warm suds and soak with
clothes half an hour; then make
another suds, using the same
quantity of soap and fluid, and
boil them just fifteen minutes, then
rinze in two waters.
To make court plaster, soak is.
inglass in a little warm water fol
twenty-four hours; then evapor.
ate nearly all of the water by 9
gentle heat, dissolve the residue
in little proof spirits of wine
and strain the whole through {
piece of open linen. The strained
mass should be a stiff jelly
when cool. Now, extend a piece
of silk on a wooden frame and fiji
it tight with tacks and wooden
thread. Melt the jelly and apply
it to the silk thinly and evenly
with hair-brush. A second coat
ing must be applied when the first
is dried. When both are dry
cover the whole surface with two
or three coatings of balsam o
Peru, applied in the same way
Plaster thus made is very pliablt
and never breaks.
HEAT OF RooMs.-The purchase
of a thermometer will make paying
returns in health. The great tend
ency in winter is to keep rooms toe
warm. The foundation of pneu
monia, pleurisy and pulmonar.
consumption is frequently laid il
overheated, ill-ventilated apart
ments. The inmates become accus
toned to breathing hot, close air
the systom is toned down anC
relaxed, and slight exposure e
cold results in serious illness
"S. me years since,' says q medIca
writer, "we called, one winter even
ing,ion a friend, whom we found il
cozy sitting-room, with larg,
fire, low ceiling and the heat rang
ing about the eighties. She wa
suffering from . severe cold, bu
could give no account of how sht
took it. A month later she wa
Frustrated with pneumonia, ant
she and her sister died within
a week of each other. and wer,
buried in the same grave. The in
teliigent use of a thermomete
would doubtless have saved both o
those valuable lives"
The mercury in the tube shoulC
never be permitted to stand abov
seventy. If that temperature is no
> sufficient to give warmth, it is al
indication that the person does no
take sufficient exercise, and the cur
; for it is more miles and more fan
mel. In the coolest weather, wheI
the ground is like stone under thu
feet, when there is no drip from tn
, caves, and when snow lies on thu
roof, rooms should be ventilated
Pure air should be admitted through
open doors and windows, so tina
the oxygen consumed by flame AM
and by respiration may be replaces
, and the effete and poisonous mat
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{ oughly driven away. AS one O
. our best household writers Of
science remarks, ventilation is
question of money.