Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
"A good way to clean the inside of
| old iron pots and pans is to fill them
with water in which a few ounce of
washing-soda are dissolved, and set
them on the fire. Let the water boil until
the inside of the pot looks clean.
Keep a small bottle of glycerine
near the place where you habitually
wash your hands, and, before wiping
them, put one or two drops of glycerine
on the wet palm and rub the hands
thoroughly with it as if it were soap,
then dry lightly with a towel.
Take your board that you scour
your knives on and nail it firmly, so
that it will be stationary near the table
where you wash dishes. You don't
know, unless you've tried, how much
labor it saves; for if at any time you
use a knife just step right there and rub
it over with the securing material. |
use bath-brick and a large cork. And
you wouldn't do this if you had to go
to some cupboard, take down the board,
and afterward have to put it back as ain.
An open fire, with a large chimney
throat, is the best ventilator for any
room; the one-half Or %two-thirds of the
heat carried up the chimney is the price
paid for immunity from disease and
large though this seems from it's daily
draft on the wood pile or coal-bin, it is
triiing when compared with doctors
bills and with the loss of strength and
efficiency that invariably results from
living in unyentilated apartments-CoL.
Warasg.
i wonder if all the mothers know
what a nice remedy cold water is for
Group. I think it superior tie any thing
else. As soon as my little ones begin to
choke up and cough like Group, I bind
a napkin wet with cold water, and a dry
one e it, around the throat, and give
a good dose of sirup of ipecac. The
cloths must be changed every few min
utes till the choking is over. II neces-
sary, give the ipecac or hive-sirup till
the child begins to vomit. I think it a
splendid remedy. Group must be treat
ed Immediately, and cold water is al
ways handy to get.
An easy method of breaking glass
to any required form is by making a
small notch, by means of a file, on the
edge of a piece of glass; then make the
end of q tobacco pipe, or a red-hot iron
about the same size, red-hot in the fire,
apply the hot iron to the notch, and
draw it slowly along the surface of the
glass, in any direction you please; a
crack will be made in the glass and will
follow the direction of the iron. Round
glass bottles and TASKS may be cut in
the middle by wrapping round them a
worsted thread dipped in spirits of tur-
pentine, and setting it on fire when
fastened on the glass.
This is the way / make coffee: In
the first place / get the green coffee,
roast it, take the quantity required, put
in ~coffee-pot, pour boiling water On it;
have a pot of boiling water, set the cot
fee-pot, with q small piece of wood for
the cotfee-pot to rest on, so it will not
touch the bottom Of the pot, let it boil
! hour, or, for that matter, it might boil
all day, and be all the better for it.
Your coffee will be as clear as crystal.
You will need no egg, and will also find
you will not require as much coffee as
boiling. This way does not boil but
sleeps it. Be careful to use boiling
water tor both. =
In all our experiments, in sweeping
carpets, we have found nothing so safe
and serviceable as moistened bran. In
stead of stopping to clean the broom
every few minutes, sweeping the car
pets with bran not only cleans the car
pets, frees it almost entirely from dust,
but keeps the broom clean at the same
time. 1t must be moistened only
enough to hold the particles together.
If too wet, there are the same objec-
tions as to each of the various ways
above mentioned. 1t will leave the
carpet SC damp that the dust which will
settle over it will deface the carpet more
than it will clean it. Besides, it makes
the work much harder, because the
bran becomes heavy with much mois-
ture. Distribute the bran evenly over
the floor, and then sweep as usual. The
bran scour or cleans the whole fabric.
Very little dust is made when sweeping
with it, and scarcely any settles after the
work is accomplished, because every
thread, bit of paper, lint or dust, is
gathered into the mass of bran that is
moved over the floor, and is so thor
oughly Incorporated with it that it can
not be easily separated. Carpets swept
in this manner gather very little dust,
as will be plainly seer whenever they
are taken up for shaking.-Mrs. II. W.
Beecher.