The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-29
USEFUL INFORMATION.

USEFUL INFORMATION.
In winter every sleeping room had
better be little cool than not be album
dainty supplied with pure air. One
should see to this on going to bed, and
so adjust the window sash that there
will be proper supply of good air
through the night
FLOUR, like milk, though not so much
SO, is affected by odors of any kind,
which 1t readily absorbs. Hence it
should never be kept where vegetables,
onions, etc, or fish, and such odorous
things, are stored. Flour should always
be kept in sweet, dry, cool and airy
room.
In selecting articles for a scrap-book
it sometimes occurs that one wishes to
save the matter that is on both sides of
the clipping. This may by done by
splitting the paper. Place the paper
under piece of glass so that it will be
smooth, after which it is thoroughly
soaked with water, when, with a little
care. the upper surface of the paper can
be entirely removed. The process is
as much matter Of curiosity as Of util-
ity.
Too MUCH sleep blunts the nervous
system, impairs the memory, enfeebles
muscular energy, and is apt to produce
1nordinate fat. To sleep much is not
necessarily to be good sleeper. Gen
orally they are the poorest sleepers who
remain longest in bed; that is, they
awaken less refreshed than if the time
of arising were earlier by an hour or
two. While it is true that children and
young people require more sleep than
their elders, yet it should be the care
OF parents that over-indulgence be not
permitted. Where the habit is for
children to lie in bed until or 9 IN the
morning, the last two hours, at least,
do not bring sound, dreamless sleep,
where the hour Of retiring is or 9 in
the evening, but are spent in dozing,' -
and, in fact, such excess cannot fail to
insure harmful results, and establish
habits of Incidence that last through a
lifetime.
HINTS about calcimining: Buy the
best bleached glue, if the walls are to be
white or some light tint Cf dark it is
immaterial, SO that the glue is clean),
and use it IN the proportion of quarter
OF pound to eight pounds of whiting.
Soak the glue over night; in the morn
ing pour off the water, as it simply
swells while soaking. Add fresh water,
put in pail, and set that in kettle of
boiling water. When dissolved, stir it
into the whiting, adding enough water
to make it, after mixing, of the same
consistency of common whitewash. It
may be tinted any color, and is applied
with whitewash brush. If the color
is rubbed smooth in little water, and
then mixed with the wash it will be
more even. II the walls have been
previously whitewashed, scrape away
all that will come of, and wash with a
solution of white vitriol-two ounces
in pail of water. The vitriol will be
decomposed, forming zinc white and
/ plaster of Paris, to which. calcfmine
easily adheres. It is important to dis
solve the glue in hot-water bath, for
if scorched by too great heat its tenac-
lty is impaired Or destroyed.
The ancients attached much value to
the cabbage as an article of food, and
the Egyptians gave the cabbage the
honor OF letting it precede all their
other dishes; they called it divine
dish. The Greeks and Romans had a
great affection for cabbage, and con-
ceived the idea, which [ have myself,
that the use of cabbage keeps people
from drunkenness. / am persuaded
that the constant eating of certain vege-
tables kills the desire for alcoholic bev-
erages. The Greek doctors ascribed all
kinds of virtues to the cabbage. It was
thought to cure even paralysis. The
Russians esteemed this vegetable much
higher than the Greeks. They ascribed
to it the fact that they could for 900
years do without doctors, and Cato
actually maintained that cabbage cured
all diseases. The ancients knew sew
eral kinds of cabbage long-leaved
green cabbage, the hard white, now so
much used in Germany for "sauerkraut"
or fermented cabbage, the curly, and
the red. This last seems to have held
the place of honor, and was first intro
duced by the Romans into Gaul or
France, and then brought to Great
Britain. Later, the green-leaved cab
bage was introduced. A rich dish was
made Of it, as it was seasoned with oil
and wine.
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