The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-23
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

SUBSTANCES containing tannin are the
best for preserving wood.
To KEEP lawn fresh and velvety, cut
it once week with lawn-mower.
THERE is new hat for rainy days
simple frame with handkerchief
stretched over it.
GRAPE-vINEs must have the supernu-
merary shoots rubbed off as soon as their
needlessness is seen.
EMILY FAITHFUL is no longer Emily
Faithful, but Mrs Forbes; yet she'll be
Emily faithful still.
To FIX pencil drawings apply thor
oughly-skimmed milk with camel-hair
brush or soft sponge.
HoED crops cannot be cultivated too
much, and it is better to cultivate with
horse-labor than the hand-hoe.
For preserving iron, coal oil of a
medium density, between burning oil
and good lubricating oil, has been found
to be the best
FAsHIoNs demand for bonnets to match
the deess has introduced among those
economically inclined movable trim
mings," of different shades and colors.
To PREVENT paints from cracking and
peeling, boil the linseed oil by the heat
of steam until all the moisture is expelled.
Oil thus served will dry in one-half the
usual time without any dryer.
A DRESS for country wear is of ecru
linen trimmed with English embroidery.
The skirt is bordered with deep plait
ing edged with band of English en-
broidery. This band is of the same ma
terial as the dress
sharpening razor is to put it for half an
hour in water to which one-twentieth of
its weight of muriatic or sulphuric acid
has been added, then lightly wipe it off,
ana after few hours set it on hone.
A MASSACHUSETTS cultivator says, in
Secretary Flint's report, that he has
noticed in his garden that " that portion
which is hoed or cultivated with the dew
upon the ground produces better crops
than when hoed in the heat of the day"
MEAT cut in slices and placed in a
room the air of which is heated to $40
degs and only allowed to enter and es-
cape through cotton filters, becomes so
dry in three hours that it can be ground,
and it loses none of its nutritive proper
ties.
Low, square-cut bodices are very
fashionable for young girls, and with
these chemisettes are worn, the great
lure of which are the extremely fine
tuckings. The opened and tlattencd-out
tuck is once more exchanged for the very
narrow tuck, the fine sewing of which
remains visible.
WATERPROOF CEMENT.-Soak plaster
| Of Paris in concentrated solution of
alum, then dry it and bake in an oven
at such heat as is used to change
gypsum or alabaster into plaster of Paris :;
then grind to powder and use with water
like plaster. 1t is white, but may of
course be colored
TRAVELLING costumes are now occupy
ing the attention of dressmakers Dust
gray and cigar brown Indian cashmere
are considered the most elegant costumes
for the purpose, but serge de laine is far
less costly and preferable, because it has
more substance as material, and conse-
quently less perishable.
For a paste for wallpaper take gal
J Ion of water and bring to boil in a ket-
| tie; one quart Of flour stirred up in cold
water, and strain through sieve so as
| to have no Jumps in it; stir well into the
| boiling water, then add one teacup of
| West India molasses. Let it boil up
once and remove from the fire, stirring it
up occasionally till cool.