The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

By adjoining our farms and homes
we thus contribute large charities to
the world, for the beauties we add to
our premises are the property of the
neighborhood and the world.-Iowa
State Register.
BEFORE putting blankets away for
the season they should be carefully
washed and summed. This can De easily
accomplished if one have a washer and
wringer. Borax and ammonia mixed
with the first water in which blankets
are washed make them very white and
soft. The soap used should be entirely
devoid of resin, as resin invariably
hardens the fibers of woolens. Washed
II scalding water, rinsed in the same
and hung at once on the line under 4
clear sun, blankets may be cleansed
year after year without perceptibly
shrinking and without losing their
primal softness and delicacy.
THE careful housewife will utilize a
great many useless articles. Old tin
fruit and vegetable cans have been
thrown into the back yard and alley
long enough. Instead of disposing of
them in this way, they can be used for
tiower-pots, and may be made very or
namental, too. Here is an opportunity
for display of the decorative art"
at present 50 popular. The plants will
thrive if hole is made in the bottom
of the can, quite as well as in porous
pots. The rust from the tin is more of
benefit to the plants than otherwise.
They may be painted any color, with
some pretty pictures pasted on.--Chi-
cago Journal.
MANY persons complain of always
getting up tired in the morning. This
IS very often due to defective ventila-
ton of the bedroom, or from using an
undue amount of bed-clothes and bed
ding. Feather-beds are too soft and
yielding, and partially envelop the
sleeper, thus producing profuse per-
spiration. The habit of living too much
under blankets is also very pernicious
by reason of the carbonic acid exhaled
by the sleeper being respired. Again,
it is common error to suppose that
by simply opening window a little at
the top, y room can be ventilated.
People forget that for proper ventila-
latiOn there must be an inlet and out
let for the air. In bedrooms there is
often neither, and if there is fire.
place, it is generally closed up. Again,
it is a mistake to suppose that foul air
goes to the top of a room. Certainly,
the heated air goes to the top, but the
chief impurity, the carbonic acid, falls
to the bottom. There is nothing so
efficacious in removing the lower strata
of air as the ordinary open fireplace,
especially if there is fire burning
N. y. Times.
To ALL who make use of the cOmpar-
alive leisure of midsummer to visit the
orchards, gardens and grounds of
others, we have one bit of advice to
give: "Shut your own gate behind
your When you leave your garden,
fruit-patch or grounds, of whatever
kind, shut the gate and leave whatever
is behind you there-don't take it with
you. Rccollect that when you visit the
place of another you go to see what he
has to show and learn what he has to
teach. If you would be welcome WIS.,
itor and dismissed with a pressing in
vitation to come again, place yourself
in receptive mood; be for the time
the attentive pupil and not the teacher.
When others visit your place will be
the proper time to teach. Of all the
intolerable bores who visit us is the
man who brings his own place along
with him, and who, whatever may be
shown him, at once Institutes
comparison with his own, and
at once begins to tell that
'mine are much better than that and
ignoring the things before him, tells
us, "Ah. you should see my strawber-
ries, my roses, my tomatoes and so on
all through; in short, the man who did
not " shut his own gate behind him. y
american AgricultMrist.