The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-17
SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE,
NEVER let tea boil.
For rough hands use lemon juice.
STRONG lye cleans tainted pork bar

For rough hands use lemon juice.
/ STRONG I've cleans tainted pork bar
rels.
TEP1D milk and water clean oil cloth
without soap.
A HOT shovel held over furniture re-.
moves white spots.
| TURPENT1NE applied to cut is pre-
tentative of lock-jaw.
SPRINKLE sassafras bark among dried
fruit to keep out worms.
OIL stains ON carpets, if action is
taken at once upon the oil being spilled,
may be removed by scattering corn
meal upon them. The meal will absorb
the oil. Also the application of hot
iron through heavy sheet of blotting
paper will have like effect.
A. USEFUL and even tasteful cover for
the marble slab of the sideboard is made
of strip OF. canton flannel just the
width of the slab. It should be long
enough to hang over at the ends with
white or colored ball fringe, and row
OF Kate Greenaway figures may be out
lined at each end. Line the flannel
with fine white cotton cloth, or with
Turkey-red cotton.
The broad and sometimes very un.
slightly looking window sills of the base
ment windows can be greatly improved
by being covered with the dark, double
faced canton-fannel. Tack it on with
very small tacks. First cut the flannel
to fit the window sill, and tack the side
next to the window on the under side
OF the flannel, and then turn it over 80
IS to entirely conceal the tacks. It
must be put on very smoothly, and it
will give comfortable aspect to en-
otherwise barren-looking room.
To CLEAN PAPERED WALLs.-Cut
the crust off of stale bread very thick,
and rub the walls carefully from top to
bottom, in straight line, using fresh
piece of bread as soon as it looks much
soiled. Wall paper is cheaper than it
used to be. You can get a fair quality
of paper in exceeding pretty patterns
for 25 cents roll. The American
papers measure eight yards to q roll.
The English rolls contain twelve yards,
and are about an inch and half wider
than the American, so that if one fancies
patterns or colors most in the English
papers, it is just as economical to buy
them, although the cost of each roll is
little more than that asked for those
manufactured in our own country.
USE BoRAx IN WAsHNa.-In en-
ploying a common, cheap, but clean
soap, I often put less than level tea
spoonful of powdered borax into tho
bottom of my tub, pouring hot water
on it, and then cooling to the proper
degree. This borax makes the wash
ing more easy. and is good for the
hands, healing them when chapped, and
leaving them in good condition after
washing. Whatever good soap you
use, it is not necessary to boil the
clothes, but this process helps in most
cases, especially if the clothes are we'll
stirred about the boiler. It is not best
to leave them actually boiling many
minutes, as this will turn them yellow.
The whole washing may be done with
out warm water, if desired. but more
or stronger soap must be used, and the
labor is harder. We want to loosen the
dirt between the fbres of the cloth as
easily as possible, and then to rinse it
all away. This is the philosophy of
making soiled clothes clean.--Ameri-
can Agricultalrist