The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-20
FARM, FIELD And FIREsIDE.
household MISCELLANY

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A poultice of tea-leaves applied to
small burns and scalds gives instant re-
lief.
Alittle powdered charcoal will cleanse
and sweeten bottles if it is well shaken
about in them.
To cure toothache take one teaspoon
full each of compton, vinegar and com
mon salt; mix well; divide into three
equal parts; hold in the mouth till the
strength leaves it.
Good taste is against the mixture of
many different flowers in arranging
bouquets. A few kinds, and then differ
ent colors of these, produce the most
pleasing results.
Hardly anything in the line of flow
ers and green can be more beautiful than
a two-yard coil of smilax, perfect in
leaf, and graced with a thousand sweet
white blooms Of this growth.
CuLT1yAT1NG BABY's TAsrE.-"Do
you know, said a wise physician, "that
you can cultivate your child's taste, or
appetite in the same way, or at least
just as far us you can his moral nature?
Instead of feeding a baby o year and q
half old on pork and beans. or cake,
give him oatmeal and milk, and food of
a similar kind; he will know nothing OF
any other food, and he will be forced to
like twill have virtue thrust upon
him.s-New York Post.
If you have not the great luxury of
some modern housekeepers, a cedar
closet, or even a chest, you must look to
the garments that invite depredations
from moths now. Air them and put
away in cotton bags with paper over
them. Fasten the paper with mucilage,
and it will be impossible for moths to
get in.
agree that the tax of carrying clothes
from the waist is utterly nniustifiable,
and that the parts that should bear the
burden are the shoulders and none
other, says DIR. Richardson in London
Truth. In this regard women ought to
be placed under just the same condi-
tions for movement of the body as men,
and the greatest emancipation that wom-
an will ever have achieved will have ar
rived when she has discovered and car
ried out this practical improvement.
A pretty patchwork pillow cover is
pieced in this way: Cut the silk and
satin in pieces about five inches long
and two inches wide; cut the ends in
points, sew the silk together lengthwise;
when you have two strips the requisite
length lay them together to form the
cushion; You will see little spaces left
that are diamond shaped; these should
be filled with blocks of black velvet. OF
course they may be ornamented gayly
if you please to have them so, but they
are pretty plain with fancy stitches over
the seams. The cushion should have a
plain lining, and this may be of any
suitable material; satteen is very nice
for it.
A t~idily-kept cellar has much to do
with the health of q family, especially
in the spring of the year, or wherever
'iheaters" are introduced into houses.
No vegetables, except potatoes, should
be stored in the cellar: Especially
should cabbages. beets, celery and tur-
nips be excluded. All there are offensive
in themselves and injurious to health,
while at the same time they are all
preserved in a much superior manner
out of doors. A celler should be thor
oughly whitewashed once a year and
swept and put in order twice a month.
All cellars should have outside doors
thrown open for an hour or two at mid
day upon clear days, when temperature
Is above the freezing point.
Very grave mistakes are made in prac-
sice by treating cough as a pulmonary
affection. and in itself morbid. It is a
very large proportion extra pulmonary
in its cause, and it is only morbid in it.
self when there is no disease or distur-
bance in the lung which can create a
need for expulsive efforts. Cough is al
ways a nervously induced phenomenon,
and as such it ought to be treated with
uttermost carefulness, so as 10 ascertain
its cause, its raison d'etre, and the pro-
portional relation which subsists be-
tween need and effort where need really
exists. Without clear views on these
various aspects of the question of cough
in each particular case, it can not be iu-
telhgently treated.-London Lancet.