Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-04-17
THE HOUSE LID,

EVEN TIE WINDOW SHADES are now embroid.
cred, sometimes with flower designs and some
times In simple cross stitch.
THE CoRsorsIs is the flower that the green.
house men are forcing now, and its honest vel
low face Is much used for table decoration.
THE DIGBsTIBnITY OF BREAD depends In great
measure upon its being porous. II 1t is COM
pact and heavy, the digestive juices are unable
to act upon it, and it remains In the aHmentary
canal undigested, giving rise to those disagreed
Die sensations all know as indigestion.
IT A BABY BLANKET that everybody admires
at the Decorative Art Rooms this week; a baby
blanket lined with pink silk turned up around
the edge to make border for the soft creamy
stuff Of which the blanket itself Is made and
having a spray OF Wild roses with dropping pc
| tails worked upon it.-BostOn Transcript.
How TO MAKE THE RUG LIE FLAT.-Ifa "Young
Housekeeper" will buy some strips of oil-cloth
(nOt Linoleum), say six inches wide, and sew 1t
rirmly with linen thread across the ends Of her
tapestry rug, taking care that the stitches do
that the rug viii not turn up, but lie fiat as long
as the Oilcloth lastS.-N. Y. Times.
FLOWERS or ONE KIND are preferred to mixed
bouquets for dinner decoration. 1t is thought
better to fill ones house with the odor OF one
sweet-scentPd blossom. to give all ones guests
a knot of it and to connect its memory with that
OF the dinner, rather than to have medley of
flowers on the table, and to leave confused i'm
STAINING FLOORS.-After experimenting for
myself and others how best to paint floors In a
good and yet inexpensive color, found French
Ochre yellow ochfe) and linseed Oil In all re-
spects the best. If allowed TO dry and get hard,
1t will last in regular use to years This
looks well. and is easily cleaned. Apply the
first coat thin; the subsequent coats tolerably
thick ssay about as thick as poor cream
Country Gentleman.
WRINKLES ON WoMKN's FACES result from
An
advantageous to try to remove them tells of
wonderfully beautiful woman who did as fol-
lows: 'She queezed Dat the juice from the bulbs
Of several white lilies until she had obtained
about seventy grammes of this liquid, to which
she added an equal quantity of the best honey
and thirty-flve grammes OF pure white melted
formed pomade, with which she delcately
rubbed. morning and night. those parts of the
body where wrinkles show most"
To RENovATE BLACK GooDs.-Take one-fifth
Of pound Of extract oflogwood and one on nee
OF saleratus put In boiler with 10 gallo ms of
when boiling hot put in the goods either wet
or dry; let stand 20 minutes, moving about oc-
casionally; rinse In cold water until the goods
drip clear, and iron Immediately. This will
be found a most excellent receipt for restoring
black goods of any kind that have become
rusty or broWn-cloth, cashmere, a water
proof, worsted gre1adine, or any material that
Will not cookie In wetting. Press on the wrong
slde.-N. 7. Times.
ANTIDOTE FOR INFECTIOUS DIsEAsEs.-The
benzoate of soda has lately been recommended
as superior antiseptic In all tGfectfOus dis
eases; II acts very powerfully, and 1t is claimed
that daily dose OF from thirty to fifty grains to
fullgrown man will render the poison of
diphtheria imperative. The benzoate is pre-
pared by dissolving crystaiized beRzoic acid In
water, neutralizing at slight heat with a solu-
ton OF causttc soda, drying, and then allowing
the solution to crystalze over sulphurc acid
under bell glass. Large doses are said not to
appear absolutely necessary-good results may
be obtained by the daily administration of
about twelve grams.
INFLATED AIR.-Dr. Willard Parker, in lee
ture before the students of the College of Ply
SicianS and Surgeons OF New York, used the
following apt words: If. gentlemen, instead
OF air, you suppose this room to be filled with
pure, clear water, and that instead OF air you
were eXhaling twenty times minute pint or
milk, you can see how soon the water, at first
clear and sparkling, would become hazy aud
finally Opaque, the milk diffusing itself rapidly
through the water. You will thus be able to
appreciate. ALSO how at each fresh inspiration
you would be taking in fluid that grew mo-
mentartly more impure. Were we able to see
the air as we are the water, we would at once
appreciate how thoroughly we are contaminat-
ing It, and that unless there be some vent for
the air thus vitiated. and some opening large
enough to admit free supply OF this very
valuable material, we will be momentarily
poisoning ourselves as surely as II we were
taking sewage matter into our StOmachs."
INFLUENCE OF SINGING UPON HEALrH.-The
medical WOchenSCltTif, OF st. Petersburg, pub
fishes an article on the influence of singing
upon the health. 1t is founded upon the eX-
hauStive researches made by Professor Norma
sein, Of st. Petersburg, during the autumn OF
1878, when he examined 222 singers, ranging
between the ages OF nine and fifty three years.
II appears to be an aScertainei fact from these
experiments, that the relative and even the alb
s0lute circumference OF the chest is greater
among singers than among those who do not
sing. ard that it increases With the growth and
age CT the singer. While. too, mder forms Of
catarrh are frequent among singers bronchial
catarrh is exceedingly rare. The mortality of
singers from phthisiS is unfrequent. BrighCs
disease, on the contrary. is not unfrequent
among thtm Professor MonnaSein concludes
that singing Is highly to be recommended as
valuable prophylactic for persons VINO are
phthisically inclined. and that It Is far pre-,
ferable to ordinary gymnastics for developing
expanding and strengthening the chest.
How TO DEAL WITH RArs.-We clear or
premises of these detestable vermn. writes a
correspondent OF the Scientific american, by
making whltewash yellow with cOpperaS and
covering the stones and rafters In the cellar
with 1t. In every crevice where rat may
tread we put the crystals of the copperas and
scatter the same in the corners OF the floor.
The result was perfect stampede OF rats and
mice Since that time not a FOOTBALL Of either
rats or mice has been heard about the house
Every spring, coat OF yellow wash is given
the cellar. as purifier, and rat eXtermInator;
and no typhoid, dysentery. or fever. attacks
many dtt.dCb
all the rats In the neighbOrhOod by leaving
fruits and vegetables uncovered In the cellar,
and sometimes even the soap is left open for
their regalement. Cover up everything eat
able in the cellar and pantry, and you will
soon have them out. These precautions
Joined TO the service OF a good cat, will prove
as good rat eXterminator as the chemist can
provide. We never allow rats to be poisoned
in our dwelling; they are so liable to die b.
tween the walls and produce much annoyance.
IMPROVING OUR LawNs.-At this season,
when the grass Is getting green. everyone's at
tentl0n IS drawn to the lawns and grass plots
surrounding their houses, and any suggestions
for improving their appearance may be accep-
table. Talking with an intelligent English
gentleman some time ago, he expressed the
opinion that much OF the beauty Of English
lawns was owing to persistent wedding out
of coarse vegetation and weeds that might in
terfere with the grass. We replica that such
was no doubt the fact, as IT. was the course
English acquaintance also said tnat their lawns
were regularly rolled after a rain, which closed
the holes made by taking out the coarse grass,
weeds &C. We again replied that it was the
way we had always pursued. In doing so we
initiated no one. We saw the necessity Of 1t
and did it. Many gardeners now follow the
same course, for without 1t firSt-claSS lawn
cannot be maintained. Where a hole may be
too large for this operation of the roller, or
where from some cause there may be bare
spots in the lawn, take q WheelbarrOw load OF
good soil and fill up these holes and where the
place Is bare first scratch with an iron rake or
fork, add little of the extra soil, SOW some
lawn grass seed, which should always be kept