St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
Useful Hints.

Useful Hints.
A tablespoonful of black pepper will
prevent gray or buff linens from spot
ting, if stirred into the first water.
To take out ink, immerse the spot in
boiling hot tallow when cool, wash
ont i'll soap suds, and the ink will have
disappeared.
For burns or scalds cover the place
with baking soda, and tie up with
wet cloth the pain is relieved at once.
and the sore heals rapidly. Coal oil is
also an excellent remedy for burns.
Remember that broOms that are
dipped for minute or two in kettle
of boiling suds once or twice week,
will last much longer and il carpet is
not worn half as much by them.
Wings of turkeys are nice to dust
furniture, but, best of all, to wash win
dows with, because the corners can be
easily and perfectly cleaned by them,
leaving no lint behind, as when cloths
are used. Use them to spread paste
when papering walls; there is nothing
that does that work better.
To take ont fruit stains, tie up cream
of tartar in the spotted places, and put
the article into cold water and boil it.
Recent stains of fruit may be removed
by holding the linen tightly stretched
over tub, and pouring hot water over
the stain do this before applying the
soap. If on table linen, rub on it com
mon table salt before it has had time to
dry. The salt will keep it damp till
the cloth is washed, when the stain
will disappear.
The objection to horses with white
feet is reasonable enough, for white
hOofs are more brittle than black ones,
and are much more liable to break and
contract than those of dark color.
In experiments to ascertain the
depths beneath the surface of the sea
sight could penetrate, it was found that
twenty-five fathOms was the maximum
of visibility. And when the tempera-
ture of the water was highest the wa
ter was clearest.
Powder, when exploding, eXerts an
elastic force of one Thousand times the
pressure of the atmosphere.
The long Enfield rifle consists of
| tifty-three different parts, and passes
through 74O processes of manufacture.
To CURE A FELON.-Dr. L. C.. Bran
non in the Therapeutic Gazette, pre-
scribes the following treatment for this
painful malady: Take of soft lye
soap and tiax-seed meal a sufficient
quantity, stirring the meal in slowly
with spatula or case-knife, manipu-
lating thoroughly, so as to form IA salve
or pOultice. Corn meal is Il good sub
| 4, Il. .l = L.,
finger in this, applying snugly, and oc-
casionly pressing it to bring it i'll closer
contact. Renew the poulticc every -
to "A hours. Don't try every prcscrip-
| ton YOU may hear of. Depend on this.
1t will, if applied in time, abort the
disease if adopted later, it will bring
it to Il small head (if too far advanced
to he 'scattered,) when it may he
picked almost painlessly.
The waste of time, the waste of
strength, and the waste of health which
women accept on account of fashion is
appalling. The shoes of women have
pegs for heels, half way under the foot,
on which they walk with Il tOttering,
hohbling gait, like Chinese women.
Frills, fIinges, cords, straps, buttons,
pull backs, and tiounccs, supposed to
be ornamental, but which have no
other use, burden and deform even our
young girls. If the rising generation
is to be healthy, there must be "A re-
turn to simpler, as well as more be-
coming styles. We need artists, who
can devise simple and beautiful dres-
ses, which shall secure to the wearer
the free and untrammeled use of the
whole body Lucy Stone.
The first thing the average man does
in hot weather, when 'laying off" and
seeking comfort, is either to take off
his collar and cuffs, unbuttOn his vest
or loosen the waistband of his trousers
after which he takes long breath
and declares that he is at peace. The
average woman probably does the
same thing in kind, although, i'll view
of the ingenious discomfort of feminine
dress. it is not easy to see how she can
ever be comfortable ut all. In view of
these things it seems as though some
sort of garments could be devised for
summer wear which should look well,
and be easy also. Clothes are pOpu-
larly supposed to he made to promote
the comfort of the wearer. but in sum
mer the modern dress of civilization is
the most uncomfortable of inventions.