Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-24
The Household.

To CLEAN BLACK CAsHMERE.-Place the dress
or goods In In strong boraX water, made luke
warm; let it remain In soak all night, then take
out and hang on line to drip, and when nearly
dry press eff. Do not rinse or wiring.
TO RENoyATE BLACK CHIP HAT-Add to
nonia; use with a soft tooth or nail brush; when
c!ean rinse with cold water and place In sun TO
Cry. Do not soak or scrub sufficiently to de-
ARROW Roof FOR SICK PEOPLE.-The follow
ing often use for my patients: 1 take a des-
sert teaspoohrul OF arrow root and add a table
spoonful OF milk; wet and rub 1t smooth. To
this add teaspo0nful OF powdered sugar,
neat hall pint OF good rich milk and bring it
Juss uR 10 Sne Doll: Then, when it boils, stir In
TO boil three minutes, and give either warm mr.
cold -THospital Nurse.
To DESTROY ANGLE-WORMs-App worms at
the root OF plants can be made to come to the
surface by inserting fine air-pin or darning
needle into the mold, and then pouring lime
coed for the health OF the plants also, and viii
keep the foliage fresh and green. Apply once
week. Gala lilies should be placed In shady
corner OF the garden during the months Of June
and July, and be given no water except that
which falls from the clouds. Early in August
they should be put In size larger pot with
very rich earth-that is, loan and peat mixed.
You cannot give too much water when growing
and they are wanted to Dloom.-fN. Y. Times
Soft BEps.-There are differences in opinion
In regard to the best beds for refreshing sleep,
beds The difference between them is that the
weight OF body on soft bed presses on q
larger surface than upon hard bed, and con-
sequently more comfort is enjoyed. Hard beds
should never be given to little children and
parents who suppose that such beds contribute
TO health, by hardening and developing the con-
st1tut1on, are surely in error. Eminent physt-
this opinion, and state that hard beds have often
proved injurious to the shape of infants Birds
and animals cover their offspring with the
sOftest materials they can obtain, and also
make soft beds for them; and the softness of a
bed Is not evidence OF its being unwholesome
But II 1t Is not kept sweet and clean by daily
ah1ngs and frequent beatiDgs-whether it is
tCou7stTy Gentleman.
FLOORS AND CARPETs.-There is a strong pro-
test offered, In different ways and from various
sources, against our long established practice
OF making poor floors, with the design OF keep
ing them covered with carpets stretched and
lifted to every part and carefully tackled down.
Carpets in daily use cannot be kept clean ex-
cept by very frequent shaking and beating, and
they do much toward corrupting the air by re-
tanning impure gases. hiding the finest, most
penetrating enta DUST IN their meshes and under.
wool into the atmosphere, with other dust, as
they are swept or walked upon. There Is a de-
mand Tor PETER o9rs not necessarily inlaid or
made double, Of strong seasoned wood, that
Will not shrink or warp spruce, however well
seasoned, Is almost sure to warp, and then
carefully finished so as to be durable and easily
cleaned. Carpeted floors seem relief to the
housekeeper, when once the carpets are pro-
cured and fitted to the rooms and tackled down,
because they do not show the dirt as the bare
floors do. But oh! when they do get full of
dust! And when house-clean1ng time comes
and they must be taken up and shaken and
whipped as they well deserve! With warmly
made floors and large warm rugs, couldn't we
do without these denominations even In winter.
Gel tainly our rooms would be cooler and sWeeter
without them In summer. But In that case we
must take more pains with our floors, and we
must have something better than the common