Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-07-28

bly, it will effect people according tc
| their state of health or disease, and
| whether it is eaten while fasting or after
or with the meal. Many considerations
are required before one can pronounce
Judgment on the effect of the cure.
Notes for the Scrap Book.
Oil of cedar applied to chests and
drawers will keep moths out of the
clothes, which have been kept twenty
wears with no sign of moth about them
| Apply early in the spring, and once OIL
| twice through the warm SEES on. The
| oil poured ON paper and rolled up Sc
| that the oil cannot strike through is the
best way of applying it. Put it at the
bottom and at the ends, and if a deem
chest in the middle and among the
| clothes The oil does not grease the
clothes, but may spot them if not
wrapped in thickness or two of paper.
The tighter drawers and chests are shut
the longer one application Will continue
effective.
One ofthe minor trials in railway travel
arises from cinders in the eye. A sim
pie and effective cure may be found in
one or two grains of flaxseed, which can
be placed in the eye without pain or in
jury AS they dissolve, glutinous sub
| stan ce is formed, which envelopes any
foreign body that may be under the lid,
and the whole is easily washed out. A
dozen OF these seeds should constitute
part of every travellers outfit.
A German doctor recommends bread
made with sea water as a wonderful
remedy against scrofula and disorders
resulting from insufficient nourishment.
Sea water ought to stand twelve hours be-
fore being used for making dough in order
to free it from impurities. Bread made
with it has no unpleasant taste.
An excellent authority in medicine
recommends little common sugar as a
remedy for a dry, hacking cough, and
gives scientific reasons torit. Iftroubled
at night or on first waking in the morn
Ing, have little cup on stand close by
the bed, and take half a teaspoonfnl;
this will be of benefit when cough syrups
fail.
After the dust has been thoroughly
beaten out of carpets, and they are
tackled down again, they can he bright
ened very much by scattering corn meal
mixed with coarse salt over them, and
then sweeping it all OF. Mix the salt
and meal in equal proportions.
Uncooked meats should not be direct
ly placed on ice, as the juices are with
drawn in this way. Neither should they
be kept in wrapping paper, but put, I'M
covered, in dish or pan and then
placed on the ice.
Nothing is better for whitening gar
ments, particularly those that have be-
come yellow from being laid aside for
several months, than a teaspoonful of
borax dissolved in the rinsing water.
A well-known florist of Cleveland.
Ohio, says the best way to keep cut
flowers fresh is to wrap them up in a
newspaper. This is much better plan
he says, than dipping them in weter,
or putting them in vase with water.
He says he receives flowers from Boston
packed in this way, which reach him as
fresh as when they were first cut.
At a recent English wedding the
magnificent bridecake, weighing about
one hundred weight, was in three tiers,
each of medallions, with basket and
pockets of flowers, with pillars between;
from each was cOrnucOpia of flowers.
The whole was surmounted with vase
to hold the bouquet of the bride. At the
base of this superb structure of comics.
tionery art were cupids, shells, etc.