The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-03
Househoid Hefps.

RATS.-A handful of fresh chloride of
lime sprinkled in rat holes will keep them
away for months.
FOR beetles or reaches mix equal parts
of brown sugar and Indian meal with
Paris green.
To CLEAN ALABAsTER.-Wash with
soapsuds; if stained, whitewash the
stains; let the whitewash remain on
several hours.
JELLY-MoLDs should be washed with
the white of an egg toinsure a clean i'm
preston. Dipping in hot water spoils the
sharpness of outline.
To Cook COLD MEAT.-Put the meat
into a chopping bowl, cut it fine, season
it with salt, pepper, and a little onion !;
add half a pint of drawn butter. Fill a
tin bread pan two thirds full; cover over
with mashed potato which has been
sailed and has milk in it; lay bits of but
ter owe the top and set it into an oven
for fifteen or twenty minutes.
Usefut Information.
LEMONS form a very agreeable, cheap,
and satisfactory medicine to be taken as
a preventive of the ague, and withal
are better than nine-tenths of the ague
cures palmed off on the public. The
best substitute, il lemons are not to be
had, is eitric acid, prepared as follows:
Dissolve fifteen grains in a cup of hot
coffee, and drink just before the usual
attack of chills.
A WASH for the teeth to whiten them
is often made with acids, which whitens
simply by destroying them. To keep
them thoroughly clean is really to Written
them. A good wash is made by dissoly-
ing two ounces of borax in three pints
of boiling water, and adding a teaspoon
full of spirits of camphor when it is
nearly cold. This should be carefully
bottled and reduced one-half in tepid
water before using. 1t beauties the
teeth and arrests decay, aside from i'm
proving the gums.
A food portable fence is made in
panels, consisting of four boards, six
inches wide and twelve feet long, nailed
to three 2 by 4 joists, five feet long ; the
outside ones should be nailed clear at
the ends of the boards. AS each length
is nailed, raised up, and, standing at the
end, bore an inch hole just under the
top board in each of the outside posts
When it is ready to set up, cut braces
four feet long and bore a hole in each
end. Raise two lengths at a time; put
one end of the brace between them NJ
even with the holes in the top, and faster
them all together with a wooden pin
Then drive down a peg, bore a hole il
the top two or three inches above tn,
ground, and fasten the bottom of tn,
brace to it by means of q pin. Thi
fastens it securely, and leaves it at tn
same time perfectly temporary.
AN English writer gives the followin,
directions for cleaning clocks, which sui
all metal clocks, and the larger an,
coarser they are the better: Dip a feathe
into common parafine oil, such as i
, used for lamps, and touch up all the oil,
places of the clock, especially axles an,
holes; then let the clock stand for a fey
hours, give more parafine, and touch off
: ener if you think it is better for il
/, Afterward strew strong washing powde
among the wheels, etc., and plunge tn
clock into a strong solution of the sam
: in boiling. Let it lie therein until tn
water gets cool enough to place you
: hands in, when, with a tooth brush rub
bed with soap, wash out the dirt fror
the works. A%fterward cleanse completed
from all trace of soap and powder i
: plenty of warm water, and the operatio
is complete, the clock not having to b
: taken asunder at all. Many an old clec
could be cleaned by this method, whic
: if taken asunder, even by skilled hand
. would never tick again, owing to fires
portions of the wheels being placed
contact.
Don CARLOS says hat Gilmore's be-
garden in New York "pleases SPANS
y;s;tors-at 1east IL does me-much he