The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-24
FIELD AND FARM.
Household Hints.

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For seriously chapped hands try this:
Scrape cake of brown Windsor soap
antil it is all fine as powder; mix it with
an ounce Of cologne water and an ounce
Of lemon juice. Stir this very thoroughly
together, shape it into cakes, let it hard.
az, and then use it when you wash your
bands. s...., 30 .-...,-s-... ..s -..
PASTE FOR SCRAP BooKs-Mix smooth
" -four and water till snooth batter is
formed put, in a pinch of pulverized
alum, and pour in boiling water till a
thick paste is formed. lie: itboil a min
lte or two; add few drops Of carbolic
acid or oil OF cloves. Put in ide'necked
bottle. ~. - -. I'm >,
PAINTING ON S1LK.-Before painting on
silk cor satin, rub coat of chalk on the
wrongs side ofthe. material, if possible.
and use blotter to soak up unnecessary
uil, or procure preparation at an art.
lists furnishing store. In painting with
water colors on black satin,- mix the COL
urs with d weak solution fgum arabic,
Of give 1t coat Of gum arabic when fin.
ished: .l..
FREcKLEs.-tt is said that frecktes may
be thus removed: Put tablespoonful
Of chloride of lime in pint of hot water
and apply it hot to the face, then rinse
6H with diluted lemon juice. This should
be Used with g eat care. as the chloride
made in the same proportion will some-
times remove freekles, but continuous
bathing for ten minutes at d time, and
ottener is necessary.
Sn1Rr BosoMs. Snake thin boiled
starch; put in it bit Of white soap and
81 butter, starch the bosoms in it after
they have been rinsed, and dry them. A
few hours before ironing them wiring
The bosoms and wristbands from thin
cold starch-starch dissolved in cold
,water-with a pinch of borax in it. Roll
pp tightly till they are ironed. Linen
prepared IN this Way Will give no trouble
in ironing. After one or two expert.
ments the laundress will know just what
PROPORTIONS to use. Polish with a poi
ishing iron, which may be bought tor
rs cents or 81.
MY Boys:
/ "No, none of my boys are III Chica-
so," said an old farmer from Western
, Illinois, just returning from the Union
Stock Yards, where he had cold three
cars of hogs of his own raising. "No,
sir, m, boys are ali at home. The three
oldest are teaching school winters and
t.elping on the farm summers. I've had
all my boys in the city, though, and
they know. what it is: / showed 'em all
around myself. amt one of these kind
that lets boys go on thinkin' a city Is the
incest place in the world, when it Is as
easy as noth;n' to show 'em different. I
{ had my boys in some OF the saloons
along on State street, and ON the West
Side; to show 'em the poor l0afers, some
of them evidently farmers boys come
to town to get rich. We all went up in
to the Public Library, as l wanted the
boys to see the poor cusses there find.
until 10 o'c.ock, anyhow. We was also
in some of them dives along the Levee,
and l tell you the boys was
disguised with the dirt and vulgarity.
My oldest boy went into the wine: room
to see the girls and come out mad, say
ing they was nothing but paint, powder;
and stuffing, and charged him $3 for one
little bottle of wine worth about rs cents.
[ had the boys look in the morning pa
pers to see how many situations there
were vacant, and how many mo- re there
we're wantin' places. When we started
for the train next morning early we See
!. sign out Clerk wanted and thirty or
iorty felloTs standin' around waiting for
the doors to open. On, 1 tell you, the
boys haven't any love for Chicago. and
they are stayin' home and 'tendin to
business. James has small farm Of his
own, and I'm going to give him half the
money from them hogs to furnish his
house with, cause he's to- marry soon.
Ro"ert, the nextEone; has the best team
in our county, and the handsomest gal.
My boys have seen Chicago with their
eyes open, and are satisfied to stay at
home, behave themselves, and take the
old tarm whe, get through with 1t. /
believe this keeping Of boys in ignorance
Of what great city really is is wrong: 80
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