The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-07-20
Household Hints.

Oxalic acid dissolved in water will re-
move ink stains and iron-rust. Articles
must be thoroughly rinsed after the
stains are removed. The acid should be
applied and then the garment laid in the
sun. Repeated applications may be
necessary.
Broadcloth when worn may have a
new face put on it by the following
method: Rip up carefully, brush thor
oughly, lay on the right side a cotton or
linen cloth wrung from cold water, and
pass a hot iron over the cotton, remove,
and press the broadcloth on the wrong
side.
A handy new garment for travel in
sleeping cars is 81 very thin but all envcl-
oping cloak, buttoning up from chin to
toes. When ready to retro for the ight
the woman puts it on, and then undres-
es under it, safe from those prying eyes
which abound in sleeping cars, and
which curtains cannot efectually shut
out. She uses it for night-gown, too,
and in the morning dresses herself safe
ly beneath its kindly folds.-Harper's
Bazaar.
Fruit to be perfect when canned and
to keep well must be neither underripe
nor overripe when it is put in the cans.
A great deal of canned fruit is lost to the
hollsckccper from fermentation and
souring, because it was already begin
ming to decay when put up. Attention
to this point-the ripeness of the fruit
will secure the flavor and preservation
when other useful requisites are added.
For all ordinary disorders of stomach
and liver the following prescription is
sensible: "The best breakfast is bread
and milk, with perhaps cracked wheat
and syrup. For dinner, use mutton,
beef or fish, with potatoes and course
bread. Never cat any desert, unless it
together. Take q hand-bath every
morning in water of agreeable Temporal
ture, and after a sharp friction thump
the stomach and abdomen during two or
three minutes. Retire and rise early.
Sun your bed thoroughly, and air the
bedroom day and night.
A fine ginger beer may be made as
follows: Take ten pounds of sugar, nine
ounces lemon juice, half a pound of
honey, eleven ounces bruised ginger
root, nine gallons Of water, and three
pints of yeast; boil the ginger half an
hour in gallon Of water; then add the
rest OF the water and the other ingredi-
ents, and strain when cold; add the
white Of an egg we'll beaten; let stand
four days and bottle.
An author says he never met person
who, taking regular morning bath in
this rapid vigorous way, was not salts
fed with the result: "P urchase bath
g-mat, or make one by sewing into the
edge of a large piece Of rubber cloth a
half-inch rope. On rising spring into
the middle Of it and with an old, rough
towel folded eight or ten inches square,
apply the water as fast Us your hands
can fly; then with rough towels rub as
hard as you can bear on, until the skin
is as red as boiled lobster. This will
take but five minutes, and will leave you
in delightful glow:'
Children's hosiery forms quite an item
in the dry goods bill Of a family. Really
good stockings are expensive. Nota little
economy may be practiced by making
over the fancy socks Of father or the silk
or Isle thread hose of mother into little
stockings. If they are made neatly, and
the seams sewed nicely overland, and
made very narrow they will prove quite
a success. An exact pattern should be
cut from the stocking, which is the right
size, and the new ones made from it.