The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-22
Home Notes.


for cleaning grained wood.
Never put hot iron directly upon
silk; it takes the life out of it.
If your fiat irons are rough, rub
them with fine salt; it will make them
smooth.
-Mildew may be removed by dipping
the steamed parts into buttermilk and
putting them in the sun.
Table mats made of seine twine are
exceedingly durable. They will wash
WELL and two sets of them will last al
most lifetime.
Common wheat flour made into
paste with cold water, applied dry, will
take out grease spots without injuTing
the most delicate fabrics.
Silk handkerchiefs washed in clear
water with pure white CASTLE soap look
like new. Do not iron, but snap between
fingers until almost dry, and then press
under a weight.
Whole cloves are now used to exter-
inmate the mereiless and industrious
moth. 1t is said they are more efectual
as destroying agent than either tobac-
Gu CdLll pA4OI VI SCuhI
E-As soon as felon makes its appear
ance, apply a poultice of equal parts Of
saltpeter and birthstone. Mix with suf-
fcient lard to make paste, and renew
IS soon as it gets dry. A few applica-
tiOns will effect cure.
Leather chair seats may be revived
BY rubbing them with well-beaten white
Of eggs Leather binding of books may
also be cleansed by this method. White
Roman bindings should be washed with
a soft flannel saturated in soapsuds.
Pretty dollies for the cake basket
are made by embroidering pretty little
figures in the corners of plain white
napkins; fringe the edges, if they are
not already fringed; overcast where you
stop rayeling, and if you can do so make
border OF drawn work.
Cherry stain for fine wood is thus
prepared: Boil until dissolved four
ounces of annotto in three quarts of
water in copper kettle; put in piece
Of potash of the size of a walnut; keep
the whole on the fire an hour longer,
and then the stain is ready for use.
A teaspoonful of borax, put in the
last water in which clothes are rinsed,
will whiten them surprisingly. Pound
the borax so it will dissolve easily. This
is especially good to remove the yellow
that time gives to white garments that
have been laid away for two or three
years
The style of night drawers, with
feet attached like a stocking, is an ex-
cellent one for small children. One
careful mother kept her eroupy child
warm at night by sewing up the crib
blanket like bag and letting the baby
sleep inside of it, where, kick as it might,
it could not kick of its clothing.
The most common way of destroying
the lice, or green-hies, as they are called,
on house plants is by slowly burning
tobacco in a close room with the plants.
Waste tobacco or tobacco stems are used,
dampened, so as to produce as mueh
smoke as possible for long time. The
room should be filled with smoke so as
to almost render objects invisible.
TO makes a good polish for furniture,
melt one ounce of black resin and one
quarter pound yellow wax in an earth
en- pipkin, and pour in by degrees two
ounces of spirit of turpentine. When
the whole is incorporated put it In an
earthen jar and keep it well covered Tor
use. When YOU use it spread little
of il on the furniture with q woolen
cloth and rub it well in In few days
the polish will be as bright and hard As
vArnish.
An inexpensive and durable scrap
bag may be made of striped ticking.
Cut three pieces, each an eighth OF
yard wide, or more. and three elghts
long: square it at the top but cut IN
point at the lower end. Between the
strips of the ticking work the briar-
stitch in different colored zephyrs; line
each piece with Turkey-red chintz, sew
together, making each point fit the other
at the bottom of the bag; bind the same
on the right side withred braid, and put
adrawing-string at the top.
Keep fire in the living room night
and morning on these October days,
when It is hot in the middle OF the day,
but cool and damp at its beginning and
close. If YOU have a good old fashioned
hearth so much the better. Keep
bright fire on it, nothing is more plea
SAINT or healthy. But do not think be-
eause you have fire you must shut the
doors. This is better than quinine Tor
keeping off malaria.
The best treatment for ivy poison
Is lime. Slake a small piece OF lime,
making a solution about as thick as
cream, and apply to the infamed sur.
face and waterblisters, morning ana
night. Three days or less viii kill the
poison efectnally. ] suffered severely
several times, in spite of the best medi-
cal treatment, the poison running IT'S
nine days course, but have yet 20 hear
OF 9 case that was not cured by lime
within the time name There IS no
sloughiDg off, but the blisters are dried
and the poison counteFacted, Wills the
parts are left sound and healthy
Toxieus, Springfield, Mass
HILL you want to be good housekeepers.
girls, begin with your own room, and
yonr own clothes. That is what your
mother win probably tell you i you
ruah 70 her With suddenly formed good
Intentions Of relieving her Of bali heE
housekeeping. Arrange your bureau
drawers, relieve your closet pegs q
their burden IF garments not II use.
Put your whole room il clean and pleas.
ant order, and learn 70 keep It thus.
Find out By studying i the best and
easiest way of keeping All fresh and
DAINTY about yeu. Have your eHn
gust cloths and spon9es fog cleaqln8 8, {
bottle Of sweet oil and turpenttne, anq
pleee Of flannel to restore the polish
Nhere dark wood is spotted. When
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