River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-24
FIELD AND FARM.
Household Hints.

HouSenOiu Hints.
For seriously chapped hands try this.
scrape cake of brown Windsor SOAP
until it is all fine as powder; mix it with
an ounce OF cologne wIter and an ounce
Of lemon juice. Stir this very thoroughly
together, shape it into cakes, let IL hard
ar. and then use it when you wash your
hands
PASTE ron SCRAP Books Mix smooth
y -four and water till snooth batter is
0rned put in pinch of pulgerized
alum, and pourin boiling water till a
,hick paste is formed. lie. it boil min
tie or two; add a few drops of sarbGlc
acid or oil OF cloves. Put in wide-necked
bottle.
PAINTING ON SILI.-Before painting on
silk Cor satin, rub coat of chalk on the
wrong side of the material, if possible,
and use blotter to soak up unnecessary
oil. or procure preparation at an art
sts' furnishing store. In painting with
water colors oa black satin, mix the col
Ors with "a weak solution of gum arabic
or give it coat OF gum arabic when fin
shed.
FREcKLEs.-- is said that freckies may
be thus removed: Put tablespoonful
Of chloride of lime in pint of hot water
and apply it hot to the face, then rinse
of with diluted lemon juice. This should
be used with eat care, as the chloride
IS a caustic poison Hot borax water
made In the same proportion will some
times remove freckles, but continuous
bathing for ten minutes at time, and
oftener is necessary.
SHIRT BosoMs. Make thin boiled
starch, put in it a bit of white soap and
Of 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 pinch of borax in it. Roll
Vp 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
70 cents or 81.
MY Boys.
No, none of my boys are in Chica-
10" said an old farmer from Western
Illinois, just returning from the Union
Stock Yards, where he had sold three
cars of hogs of his own raising. mo,
sir, my boys are ali at home. The three
oldest are teaching school winters and
Helping 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. l amt one of these kind
that lets boys go on thinkin' city is the
incest place in the world, when it is as
easy as nothin' to show 'em different. |
had my boys in some of the saloons
along on State street, and on the West
Side, to show EN- the poor loafers, some
of them evidently farmers bows come
to town to get rich. We all went up in
to the Public Library, as | wanted the
boys to see the poor cusses there lind
ing q good warm place to sleep,
until 10 o'ciork, anyhow. We was also
in some OF them dives along the Levee,
and | tell YOU the boys was
disguised with the dirt and vulgaritv.
Nv 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 S3 for one
little bottle OF wine worth about 70 cents.
| had the boys look in tue morning pa
pers to see how many situations there
were vacant, and how many more there
were wantin' places. When we started
Tor the train next morning early we see
sign out Clerk wanted and thirty or
forty fellows standin' around waiting for
the doors to open. Oh, tell you. the
boys haven't any love for Chicago, and
they are stayin' home and 'tendin TO
business. James has a 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.
Robert, the next one, has the best team
in our county, aud 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 farm whel get through with it. l
believe this keeping OF boys in ignorance
of what great city really s is wrong so
do."-Chicago Herald.