The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16
Miscellaneous Recipes,

A little powdered borax put in the
water in which laces, muslins and lawns
are washed, will improve their appear
ance greatly; use just as little soap as
possible.
The little white worm which some
times makes the earth in a plant-jar
look as if it is alive, can be driven out
by stopping the whole in the bottom of
the jar, then cover the earth with water
in which you have dissolved little
lime. Let this stand for several hours
and it is not likely that you will be
troubled with the worms any more.
If you dip your broom in clean hot
suds once week, then shake it till it is
dry, and then hang it up, or stand it
up with the handle down, it will last
twice as long as it would without the
operation.
To remove paint from the windows,
take strong bicarbonate of soda and
dissolve it in hotwater. Wash the glass
and in twenty minutes or half an hour
rub thoroughly with dry cloth.
To wash tlannels: Make suds before
putting the flannel in: do not rub soap
on them; do not leave them soaking In
the tub, but rub out one piece at time.
Wash in two suds if much soiled, then
rinse thoroughly in clean, weak suds,
wiring and hang up; but do not take
flannels out of warm water and hang
out in freezing air, as that certainly
tends to shrink them. 1t is better to
dry them in the house unless the SIM
shines. In washing worsted goods and
boys wooden clothing, pursue the same
course; only do not wiring them but
hang them up and let them drain; this
prevents wrinkles which are almost inn
possible to press out. They should be
ironed while damp, with as hot an iron
as you can use without scorching the
goods.
For burns and scalds nothing is more
soothing than the white of an egg,
which may be poured over the wound.
It is softer for varnish for burn than
cullodion, and being always at hand
can be applied Immediately. 1t is also
more cooling than the sweet oil and
cotton which was formerly supposed to
be the surest application to allay the
smarting pain. 1t is the contact with
the air which gives the extreme discom-
fort experienced from the ordinary ac-
cident of this kind, and anything which
excludes the air andprevents inilamma-
ton is the thing to be applied.
The Hands and Feet
The hand of the finest lady should be
able to clasp with the full fervor of
friendship, and pull child out of
danger; and hand upon which no de-
pendence could be placed i'm an emer-
gency is by no means credit to man or
woman. The notion that any lady's
hand should be of this kind is, in the
real sense of the word vulgar Delicacy
is delightful, but weakness must either
excite pity or contempt, according as it
is self-imposed or not. The Chinese
mandarin allows his nails to grow till
they resemble claws, priding himself
upon this evidence that he never did,
and is incapable of doing, any manly
work; and many ladies cultivate their
hands to suggest the same notion. 1t
must be remembered that the longer and
more pointed the nails, the more they
are suggestive of claws. This is in
creased by the polishing of them. Surely
it cannot be i'm good taste to recall our
animal origin at the expense of human
capabilities. The Greeks, who accen-
tuated all peculiarly and distinct human
characteristics, carefully avoided point
ing the nails, though no Darwin had
shown them whence the nails came; they
also rejected smallness of hand such as
the ideal of modern taste demands.
Proportion and fitness were to them rul-
ing principles, outside of which they
found no beauty. Hands are no more
beautiful for being small than eyes are
for being big; but many a modern girl
would ask her fairy godmother, If she
had one, TO give her eyes as big us
saucers and hands as small as those of a
doll. believing that the first cannot be