Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-14
USEFUL HINTS.

NEATsFooT oil is the best for softening
leather.
AIR STACKED lime is an excellent polish
for silver and tin ware.
For tender feet, rub them with spirits
mixed with tallow dropped from a candle
before retiring.
For strengthening the hair use the
following Scald black tea, two ounces,
with one gallon of boiling water, strain,
and add three ounces of glycerine, tinct-
IRE OF cantharides one half ounce, and
bay rum one quart. Mix well by shak
ing, then perfume.
GARMENTS to be ironed in cold starch
should be Immediately dipped in boiling
water, and ironed as soon as starched.
You will, in this way, have no trouble
with flats sticking to the cloth. Another
good way is to wet the starch with
weak, cold suds made from white soap.
For dandruff, the following is an ex-
cellent remedy: Take one ounce of -four
of sulphur and one quart of water. Pour
off the clear liquid after the mixture has
been repeatedly shaken during intervals
of few hours. Wash the head with
this every morning, and avoid using q
fine comb.
How TO DETECT INoIPIENT SMALL
Pox.-The feeling of tiredness and pain
in the back are almost universal and
! prominent symptoms, but the one thing
| that distinguishes smallpox from every
other is the hardness of the eruption.
| BY pressing or passing the hand over
the forehead or legs the feeling is exact
! ly that which would be caused by me-
| dunn sized shot being buried under the
skin, and the severity of the disease
may certainly be known by the number
or thickness of these shot like bumps.
| BABY's FIRST STEPS. A young child's
bones are soft aud cartilaginous, and
keeping a poor little thing tied up
against chair, when it ought to be
lying on its back kicking the air and
Strengthening its limbs, or crawling ON
the nursery floor, is positively injurious
and sinful. 1t is done with the view
of teaching it all the sooner to main
tain the erect attitude; but bent legs
may be the result, and, however strong
bent-legged man may be, he certainly
| does not look elegant. Let the child
creep, then, and as soon as he finds that
he can pull himself up, and stand by
the side of box, he will do so. This
is the only safe and natural process.
Soon after this he will, if encouraged,
venture upon what parents call the first
step. Let him creep, and when he
walks and falls, laugh at him. Unless
| You want to make the child an idiot, do
not rush to pull him up. Children are
not at all brittle, and they ought to
learn at a very early age to depend upon
the strength nature has endowed them
with. Some nurses tie band around
poor child's waist, and then shove him,
kicking and sprawling, on before them,
during which time the child looks as
graceful as the golden lamb which
hosiers hang out as a sign. The prac-
tice is most injurious.
EATING BETWEEN MEALs.-If your
children are disposed to be greedy, and
desire food between meals, reason with
them on the subject. A woman who has
even very superficial knowledge of the
working of the stomach can explain it to
her child In such way that it will make
strong impression upon his mind. To
represent to an imaginative child that
the stomach is like man who, when he
has eaten his breakfast, goes to work
upon that with all his might, and who
does not rest until he has ground the
food up and given the good part to the
blood, so feeding each portion of the
body, not forgetting the fingers and toes
even, and who rejects all the bad, keep
ing you from sickness and pain, will
awaken interest in the childs mind, and
be great aid to obedience. Put it be-
fore him, and ask him if it is not unkind
and even cruel to give out another task
before the first Is finished and little
time for rest been given. 1t will help
you greatly in enforcing it upon his
mind that he must not eat at irregular
intervals. A child's digestive organs
may be weak; he<may need to eat more
frequently than grown person, but it
should invariably be at some stated time.
Cake or pastry should be given him but
seldom, if at all there is nothing which
is more ruinous to the digestive organs.