The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-24
Household Hints.
SHIRT-MAKTNG.

The most durable material for shirts
is, as almost everybody knows, New
York Mills; but as that is rather hard
to wash and iron, many prefer VAN
sutta, which ranks Dext in durability
and quality. A pattern may readily be
obtained of the pattern-venders, or it
may be cut from well. fitting shirt, but
the very best course of procedure in
this difficult and delicate matter is to
send the candidate for new undergar-
ments to professional shirt-maker, who
will take his measure and cut pattern
warranted to fit. In this way the chief
responsibility in the getting up of the
garment does not rest on the seamstress.
There has been of late a decided i'm
provement made i'll the shape of shirt
bosoms. Instead of being cut, rs they
formerly were, IN rectangular shape,
they are sloped from about half way
from the top toa point at the waistband,
thus escaping the wear and pressure of
the suspenders, and retaining their
smoothness and shape far mora
readily than when modelled
after the old style Butch
ers' linen Is used to line, not bosoms
obA' bAt SOlid1S dIl(i Culo- IL Is dlldll1-
able at nearly all dry goods stores. This
coarse and heavy threaded linen holds
starch much better and longer than
cotton. If the shirt is open in the
back the wear and tear of buttons and
button holes in the bosom will be totally
avoided. Eyelets may be worked in the
middle fold of the bosom to receive the
studs, which are held in place by spiral
coils. Shirts thus made, with pointed
bosoms, lined with butchers linen, open
in the back, stihy starched, nicely
ironed and polished, will last, without
appearing rumpled or soiled, for several
days. The stiff the starch and the
lighter the polish, the greater Will the
resistance OF the linen be to dust and
tarnish of every kind. Button holes
made in linen will wear much longer if,
before inserting the button, the starch
is carefully rubbed ont of the thread
around the button-hole. This also
makes the process OF unbuttoning the
linen much easier, and saves impotence.
SOAP VERSUS DISEASE.
Sidney Smith said: "The degree of
civilization and refinement of family
quantity of soap it uses. Later OBJ
servers andwriters on health and disease
fully approve this utterance of the
famous wit and divine. Cleanliness
Is next to podliness, and this contiguity
of the two virtues is not affected in any
way by the fall or rise of the mercury
IN the thermometer. The skin is the
gran outlet of excrementitious matter
from the body; it contains twenty eight
miles of tubing. This tubing when OBJ
structed, can not perform its Office, and
sickness follows. Cold hands and feet,
the result of imperfect circulation, are
often cured by keeping the skin IN a
perfectly healthy condition.
Want OF cleanliness has more to do
with the prevalence of Group and diph-
liberia in cold weather than many people
think. Our city physicians, In consulta-
ton over the cause and cure of diphthe-
ria, give prominence to cleanliness as the
best preventive. Not long since, in a
fashionable house III New York, three
children died of this fearful disease.
Upon careful inquiry it was found that
the carpets of the house, which was
rented furnished, had not been taken
up ordusted for many years. Curtains,
carpets, and wooden garments, which
cannot be washed, may be cleansed by
thorough airing and beating, and how
ever clean they may seem to the eye,
they should undergo this process fire.
quently. Especially is this true OF blan-
kets and other bedding.
Perfect cleanliness is luxury, and,
like other Injuries, not easily attainable
by the very poer. They cannot afford
the changes necessary, or the comforta-
bile warmth and surroundings which
make the bath enjoyable even in winter.
and therefore it 10 that disease infests
/ their dwellings,. Herein Is a field for
the philanthropist. The bath room is
now as much part of every first class
| city and country house as is the bed