Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-20

CARPETS-HOw TO KILL MOTHS ROSE sLUGs,
ETC.-HEALTH NTs-HoUsEHOLD RECIPES
ETC.
DRINKS FOR CHnDREN.-Rice water. barley
water, oatmeal water, with lemon and sugar.
should be ready in every house where children
are. These drinks are surely better than cold
tea, which is often given, or doubtful tea. How
ever, milk is better than anything, when it is
sw eet and pure.
ROSE INsECTs-The following remedy is sue
cessfuly employed by some cultivators to destroy
rose-slugs and other insects on roses: Steep
tablespoonful of white hellebore in a gallon of
hot water for a few minutes, and apply the water
through syringe or the fine rose of a Watering
pot. 1t does best while the leaves are still wet
with dew. Repeat in a fortnight if necessary
Country Gentleman.
NEW REMEDY FOR BALDNEss.-In cases of
confirmed badness the new remedy proposed is
to remove the scalp, Bit by bit, and substitute,
by skin grating, pieces of healthy scalp. taken
from the heads OF young persons. The success
which has heretofore attended operations of this
nature III cases OF scalp wounds gives prOmis-
ing outlook for this new mode of curing bald
ness; and perhaps the day is not far distant
when the shining pates of our venerable fathers
Will bloom with the flowing locks of youth.
TARTARIC ACID IN DIPHTHERIA-The tropical
use of tartaric acid in diphtheria has been sue
cessfully resOrted to by NJ Vidal, who, in one of
the foreign medical journals, remarks upon the
necessity of thus making use of topical agents
against the false membrane, as it has great
tendency to spread bya sort of INSTRUMENTATION,
comparable to what occurs in certain cutaneous
affections. His formula is ten parts by weight
of tartaric acid, fifteen of glycerine and twenty
hve OF whitewater. The acid acts upon the
false membrane converting it into gelatinOus
mass, and favOrS its expulsion.
FALL. CLEANING brings again the questions
from correspondents about staining floors. The
permanganate of potash is inexpensive, and, be-
sides, is healthy, as it is the same stuff that is
used to dsinfect. About two ounces of it. mixed
In water is enough to stain good sized room.
Don't get 1T on your hands unless you wish to
stain them too. Put on pair of old gloves
Use whitewashers brush without handle of
course, for the whole floor, and paint brush for
the corners. Mix the permanganate in a bucket
of water. When it is first applied it is bright
crimson. but it Immediately turns brown. After
the first coat is dry you can put on another until
you get the shade desired. When you are salts
fled leave it to harden for day or two and then
dissolve some beeswaX in turpentine and polish
it over. A few applications will give fine
POLISH
ANOTHER ECONOMY THAT MAY BE NEW to some
people is making pillow cases from the corners
of WORKOUT sheets. There will be more seams
than is quite orthodox in such pillow covers. be-
cause the center piece on each end is generally
too thin to be available and cutting it out neces
States join Of the pieces. Where old linen pill
low cases are good at the corners small square
napkins for washstands bureaus and toilet tables
can be made by rayelng out deep fringe. 1t
will be beautifully soft and silky on coarse old
linen. ard working an open buttOn-hole stitch
all around, in colOred crewel to keep it from
further Taveling. If the linen is worth ii letter
or little figure can be put in the center in outline
stitch with crewe or indellible silk. Useful table
napkins for every day can be made from the cor
ners and sides OF wOrnOut table cloths, and it
would be well not to cOnsign the WORKOUT CEN
tiers to the rag-bag. but keep them in the bag or
box which. in every family. should be appropri-
ated to old linen and cotton to be ready for any
mergency.-Andreac's Queen.
MOTH PREvENTIvE.-A correspondent of the
Furniture Gazette cOmmends the following rem
edy for exterminating moths in carpets and fur
niture: After some years of experience with the
troublesome pests. says the writer found
sure preventive OF moths in pitch paper, the
same as roofers use The moth will live and
grow on cayenne pepper and tobacco, while
never could see that the use of these articles
kept the moth miller out The plan for the fur
nlture dealer or housewife is to cut the paper in
slips and place about the room, under and be-
hind sofas chairs. etc. This should be done as
early as the middle of April and in warm elm
ates earlier. If the dealer wishes to make par
ior suits moth proof he should place on the in
side OF packs OF chairs and seats small strips of
the pitch paper, and rest assured that the miller
Will not select these places to deposit eggs. II
Is the miller that is the foundation of all the
mischief
MATING IN PLACE OF CARPETs-Olive Lo-
gan writes from London to the Cincinnati En-
q't''e' as follows: " read in a recent Enquirer.
some humorous remarks about paterfami]jas
VINO was putting down mating on his floors for
the summer and what time he had ''wrest-
ing with 1t to make it fit into the corners I
wish L had been there to tell him not to try to
make 1t tit into the corners. Why dear heart.
you should never cut mating, except on the
straight. as you unwrap it from the roll have
just had mating put down in my dining-room,
and watched the men all the time they did it.
They were l wOrkmen and the mating was
bought at 1.-THE Bungalow" and came
straight from India They put oil-c!oth all
around the other edge of the floor Gan
o.cioth with the mating pattern closely
imltated), fitting it neatly around the door
jambs and so forth; then the mating was
simply big square piece, or rather longer one
way than the other. such being the lay of the
room; IN other words, there were four breadths
OF mating joined together. and the two raw
edges were bound neatly with scarlet leather.
The Oil-clOth shows about foot all around be-
yond. You've no idea how fresh and handsome
it looks. In this country the mating only
costs 371s cents a yard, but suppose it is
duty. capital substitute for carpets is mat
ting, and may be used with perfect propriety
any where, even in drawing-ro and even
in winter. All you've got to do to give a nice
warm effect in cold weather is to lay down
plenty of bright-colored rugs over it. 1t is such
comfort to feelthe sweet cleanliness of it. too
It can be washed like pine floor, and
II, after period of time, you fear the
dust has sifted through it. it is tn
easiest thing in the world to lift up a mating
hoor-cloth, made as have described: for as
the workman said to ME, 1.-THE fewer tacks YOU
put in it the better" The one thing to be
avoided is having Fuckers or s'rucks up'
anywhere. for the feet wear mating out at these
inequalities. Both for floor coverings and for
decorative purposes mating is becoming every
day more and more popular. Many people use it
for dadOes both in rooms and i'm railways. fast
ening it on the walls with gilt nails The Queen
will not sleep in a room with carpet on the
floor, and Her Majestys bedrooms at all the pal
aces are covered with mating In the new
cottage on Dee Side, on the border of Balloch-
buie Forest. In Scotland, which has just been
erected for the Queens use, there are no carpets
whatever, every floor being covered with Indian
mating.