The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-12
USEFUL HINTS.

LINEN garments which have become
yellow from time may be whitened by
being bathed in a lather made OF milk
and pure white soap, a pound OF the lat
ter to gallon of the former. After the
boiling process the linen should lie twice
rinsed, little blue being added to the
last water used.
To UTILIZE the feathers of ducks,
chickens and turkeys, generally thrown
aside rs refuse, trim the plume from the
stump, inclose them in tight bag, rub
the whole as if washing clothes and you
will secure perfectly uniform and light
down, excellent for quilting, coverlets
and other purposes.
WHEN sudden, though probably
brief, visitation of fine and warm sum-
mer weather entails small plague of
flies and insects, it is well to remember
that the prompt application of an alkali
to the bitten part allays the irritation
and commonly at once relieves the suf-
fering consequent on class of injuries,
which, though small, are often exceed
ingly annoying and even troublesome,
especially in the case of children and
persons with sensitive skins. Soda and
ammonia will answer the purpose.
TEA drinkers nowadays will do we'll to
apply the following simple test to the
tea purchased of their grocers. Turn
out the infused leaves, and if they are a
good brown color, with fair substance,
the tea will be wholesome but if the
leaves are black and of rotten texture,
with an oily appearance, the tea will
not be fit to drink. The purer the tea
the more the distinctively brown color OF
the leaf strikes the attention. The
mixing that is frequently adopted to re-
duce prices results in the two kinds OF
leaves being supplied together. 1t is
important to see that the leaves have
the serrated or saw-hke edges, without
which no tea Is genuine.
THE best material for cleaning coat
collars and grease spots of all kinds is
pure benzine. The article is sold at the
principal drug stores in cities. That
used by painters is not pure enough,
and has very unpleasant odor, which
the pure article has not, and the little
which it has soon disappears. If this
cannot be obtained, strong alcohol (9j
per cent? will clean collars very well.
A mixture of equal parts of strong alco-
hol and water of ammonia is also used.
The trouble with all these liquids is that
not enough is used small quantity
only softens and spreads the grease
spot they should be applied in suffi-
cient quantity and repeated to not only
dissolve the foreign matter, but to wash
it out.
DURING one of the discussions on the
Authorization and diseases of infants,
which now occupy so much attention in
France, M. Jules Guerin stated that the
addition of little charcoal (about halt
a teaspoonful of Belluc's or other finely
powdered charcoaD to nursing bottle
full of milk exefts most remarkably
curative effect on the diarrhea of infants.
He has repeatedly seen children who
had become exhausted by seven or eight
days duration OF an obstinate diarrhea
regain all the appearance of health in
two or three days. AT the same time
that the charcoal is added, the milk
should also be diluted with half or a
third of sugared water, the children
taking the mixture without any re-
pugnance, and no vomiting being in.
duced