The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-27
EARN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Home Notes.

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Home Notes.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser remarks that sit is again fashiona-
BILE for ladies to comb their hair back
from their foreheads and show they
have brains"
There are several kinds of paste made
for sharpening razors; the sharpest is
made of the finest emery powder, 2
parts, mixed with spermaceti, l part,
and rubbed on the strop. A finer one
is levigated oxide of tin, l ounce; pow
dered oxalic acid ounce, and powder
ed gum, 20 grains, made into q paste
with water and spread on the strop the
strop is moistened occasionally with
warm water; the finest is made ofjewel-
ers' rough black lead, and tallow in
equal parts, we'll mixed.
Fashion kills women than toll
or sorrow. Obedience to fashion is q
greater transgression of the laws of n
woman's nature, a greater injury to her
physical and mental constitution than
poverty and neglect. The slave woman
at her tasks viii live and grow old and
see two or three generations of her mis-
tresses fade and pass away; the washer
woman with scarce a ray of hope to
cheer her in her toll, will live to see her
fashionable sisters die all around her;
the kitchen maid is hearty and strong
when her lady has to be nursed like a
sick baby.
A good glue is made Of two parts gum
tragacanth, one part gum arabic, and a
dropo or two of carbolic acid to keep it
from souring or getting musty. I,
70 make paste for papering walls add
to a quart of -four a %teaspoonful of soda
and a tablespoonful of salt: mix it
smooth with warm water, then add boil
ing water till it is the consistency of
thick cream; keep it on the stove only
long enough to boil, set aside till near
ly cold then strain through a colander,
adding hot water if too thick. Use the
paste cold. 1t can be made the day be-
fore just as we'll. 4
iSAoSoao 1ahIp DuI1ieIS WHICH IdNe
become gummed up can be cleansed by
boiling them half an hour in a kettle
containing a quart of water and a pint
of wood ashes.
A Silk handkerchief can be so ar
ranged as to make one of the daintiest
woorkbags for holding crochet or knit
ting. One Of pale blue or pink brocade
is prettiest for the purpose. Lay the
handkerchief out flat, turn over to the
inside q small portion of each corner,
and hem each down with silk to match.
About two inches from the edge, all the
way round, sew, as n casting, a ribbon
half an inch wide, and through this run
drawing strings of narrower ribbon, the
same color. Trim the edge all round
with Q fine lace two or three inches
wide. The work is placed in the mid
die of the bag, and the strings drawn,
to gather the bag, thus making the lace
rutfie at the top. 1t will be found much
more convenient than any other bag,
and remarkably pretty.
Rose Coloring or Blush. Mix togeth-
er quarter of an ounce each of powdered
alum and cream of tartar, one ounce of
powdered cochineal, four ounces of loaf
sugar, and a small quarter of a teaspoon
full of soda. Boil about ten minutes in
a pint OF pure, soft water; when quite
cold bottle for use. L his is used for
coloring cake jellies and ice-cream.
The latest fashions for dressing chill
dren's hair are as follows: Ringlets are
always pretty for babies. Little boys
have curls in the back and bangs in
front. Little girls have their hair cut
short into a crop, but it is not so much
favored rs long waved hair gracefully
falling down the back, with II colored
ribbon to keep it in place. Young lalies
wear their hair high and twisted on top
of the head, though the Grecian knot is
still worn on the street. Bangs are not
worn as they We're early in winter. Side
puffs are very becoming to elderly ladies
whose hair mingles with gray. Cen
tlemen continue to part their hair in the
middle, while only the dude effects the
side lock.
Inc tfue way TO elevate woman is to
put into her hands the instruments of
self-support; to make her a fit COM
panion in the world of business and let
tiers as she now is in domesticitv; to
pare down the hide of man, to cut off
two-thirds of his rights" to pull out
the bnng of his barrel of conceit, and
let him understand that she who was
given to him as a companion was not in
tended to be q slave. When American
m understand that there is moth
ing degrading in work, when the seed
of ambition is planted in the breasts of
schoolgirls, when children are taught
to regard life as n field of labor, one
great step will hava been taken toward
the plane on which albright thinking
men desire to see their mothers sex.
Farm Notes.
If you have a supply of poultry drop
pings, this should be worked in where
peppers, onions OIL cabbages are planted,
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