The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
household MISCELLANY.

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To TAKE Our M1LpEw.-Rub soap
on the widowed spot, make it quite
wet, scrape chalk on it and lay it in the
sun, Repeat if necessary.
Farmers wives. The following is an
extract from a private letter: II think
the life of o farmers wife is just what
she makes it. A woman can make her
duties Q burden and her life miserable
in any situation in life, for my part I
am thoroughly sick Of hearing farmers
wives and daughters spoken of as poor,
miserable drudges, unfortunate beings
to be pitied and looked down upon.
BRAIDED MATs.-Use large sack
needle and medium-sized hemp Irvine.
The sack needles are four or five inches
long, and have a fat, curved point.
Pass the needle under the folds of
braid on each side Of the seam to be
joined and draw the thread tightly, miss
ing one or more folds of the outer
braid when rounding a curve, or when
necessary to keep perfectly fiat. Lay
the work on q table or on some flat
surface while sewing, when joining
the Irvine tie a firm square knot, and
draw it through. Use only strong
cloth, and sew the strips firmly when
joining. Made in this way a braided
mat will last for many years.
A lady writer in The Western Rural
who took "a great deal of medicine"
prescribed by several different, or in
different, and expensive doctors, until
she could not walk across the room
without help" finally learned wisdom
from bitter experience, discharged the
physicians, eschewed drugs, ate plain
wholesome food and not much of it,,
went gradually into the open air and,
two years latter, is this season able to
care for the garden, fower-yard and
chickens, beside doing her part Of
the housework."
"Fret not myself, for anythingn
Fretting never did any good at any
time, it never made poor hired help any
better; it never makes children any
more careful or quiet, and it certainly
never makes them love you any better.
No! The worst thing, the most sense
less thing a farmer Tor his wife either
can do, is to fret. Fretting irritates
eve the animals you may be using;
try the experiment; when they are
working as nicely as you can wish, COM
mence jerking the reins, talk, loud,
scold them a little, and see how quick
ly they become manageable. And
then fretting operates badly on the
f%retter; it makes him excited, peevish,
and to feel that all the world is awry
No! don't fret, though things may not
go just to your wish; take it coolly;
think the matter over; nine times in
ten the fault is your own, and if it is not,
a cool head is worth a hundred times
more than one in a fret.
1t is n of the best recipes printed
for gratuitous distribution by the Ma
tionaI Health Society. Putthree table
s%poonfuls of coarse oatmeal into three
quarts of cold water and boil it for half
IN hour; while hot sweetent to taste with
brown sugar. Most people prefer 1t
strained. This is very good mixed with
cocoa, about half of each, as hot drink,
Or it can be favored with cloves and
lemon peel boiled in it. If it is to be
drank cold one-half ounce citric acid
may be put to each two or three gal
Ions. Lemon juice is preferable to the
acid, but very much dearer. Rice or
barley drink can be made in the same
way, using broken rice or barley instead
of oatmeal. Any of the above are ex-
cellent drinks for the harvest field and
very cheap.