Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
USEFUL HINTS.

USEFUL HINTS.
TO KEEP seeds from the depredations
OF mice, mix some pieces of camphor
with them. Camphor placed in trunks
or drawers will prevent mice from doing
them injury.
To KEEP your knives and forks from
rusting, make flannel bag, and stitch
from top to bottom, an inch and half
apart, dozen times, making recepta-
Gle for each. Roll and keep in a dry
place.
A TEAspooNFUL Of black pepper will
prevent gray or buff linen from spotting,
If stirred into the water in which they
are washed. It will also prevent the
colors running, when washing black Or
colored cambrics, or muslins, and the
water is not injured by it, but just as
soft as before the pepper was put In.
IT is always best to wash fannels,
calico dresses and aprons before the
white clothes are wet, especially if the
day is cloudy and threatening. Then if
it rains the white clothes can be rubbed,
scalded and left in the rinsing water,
and it is small matter next day to wiring
them out, blue them, and hang them
out to dry.
To MAKE the hair stay in crimp, take
cents worth of gum arabic, and add
to it just enough boiling water to dis
solve it. When dissolved, add enough
alcohol to make rather thin. Let this
stand all night, and then bottle it to
prevent the alcohol from evaporating.
This put on the hair at night after it is
done up in paper or pins will make it
stay in crimp the hottest day, and is
perfectly harmless.
ONE can have the hands in soap suds
with soft soap without injury to the
skin, If the hands are dipped in vinegar
or lemon Juice Immediately after. The
acids destroy the corrosive effects of the
alkali, and make the hands soft and
white. Indian meal and vinegar or lem
on Juice used on hands when roughened
by cold OF labor will heal and soften
them. Rub the hands in this then
wash off thoroughly and rub in glycer-
inc. Those who suffer from chapped
hands in the winter will find this COM
forting.
MOST persons, when they come in from
the rain, put their umbrellas In the rack
with the handle upward. They should
put it downward, because when the ham
die is upward the water runs down in
side to the place where the ribs are
joined to the handle, and cannot get out,
but stays rotting the cloth ard rusting
the metal until slowly dried away. The
wire securing the ribs soon rusts and
breaks. If placed the other end up the
water readily runs off.
In removing grease spots from carpets,
make lather of hard soap; use only
cold, soft water and rub the soap from
the carpet with clean dampened cloth.
If you have screw rusted into wood,
or bolt that will not readily turn, pour
Oh it little kerosene, and let it remain.
In little while it will penetrate the
interstices so the screw can be easily
started.
NEVER set the lamp upon red table
cover; if you can not find time to make
green lamp mat, put piece OF green
cardboard under the lamp and you will
find the reflection upon your work much
more agreeable to the eyes than that
from the red cover.
The little boxes of thin wood which
are used to carry butter or lard in, when
covered with CAM brio or silk, make pretty
work boxes. Small peach baskets, paint
ed and lined with q bright color, are
ornamental and convenient, besides
affording the satisfaction which comes
from making something from nothing.
To MAKE lavender water: Best English
oil of lavender, four drachms; oil Of
cloves, halt drachm; musk, five grains;
best spirits of wine, six ounces. Mix
the oil of lavender with little of the
spirit first, then add the other ingredl-
ents, and let it stand, being kept well
corked for at the least two months before
it is used, shaking it frequently.
A LADY writes to contemporary as
follows: A wing for brushing the smoke
from lamp chimneysand the cinders from
the burners is very convenient; they re-
move all the grease, and there will be no
drops standing upon the chimneys, like
water on ducks back, and SO will need
no wiping, which is saving of time; a
chimney, as you all know, needs so much
WlplQS aIL6T OuC COmuSuCtS. L WASH
mine with soap, to remove al grease, in
the dish water; before put in my
dishes rinse in the rinsing water and all
is done. Soap never has made my Chin
neys brittle, perhaps it is because it is
removed quickly; never have found
that soap made glass brittle.
AMMONIA is very useful. It cleans
gentlemen's coat-collars and felt hats
nicely. Dilute with water one-half, use
cloth same color, rub well, using sew
eral clean cloths if very much soiled. A
few drops in abath water, especially if
hard water, is refreshing and purifying.
1t cleans glassware, silverware, windows,
paints and bottles beautifully and easily.
1t takes up the grease spots from the
floors. It is good for stimulast to
house-plants; one teaspoonful to one
gallon of water once week. Put few
drops in basin of water, wash your
ir-brushes in it, and see what It'll good
for. It is good for catarrhal cold, and
stings of insects. Inhale for colds, aud
apply to affected part In stings.