The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-15
Useful HINTS for All.

Eggs with spot of blood on the vol
are from diseased hens.
Clean tea or coffee cups With securing
brick; it makes them look as good a
new.
/ Dried bark of sassafras root put NJ
around dried fruit will protect it from
worms.
Remove ink stains on silk, woolen OF
cotton by saturating with spirits Of tur
pentine.
Cream cures sunburn on some com
plexions, lemon juice on Others. and
cold water still others best.
Remove 1ower-pot stain from window
sills by rubbing with fine wood ashes
and rinse with clean water.
Cover plants with newspaper before
sweeping. Also put little ammonia
upon them once week.
Mixtures of two parts of glycerine,
one part ammonia, and a little rose
water whiten and soften the hands.
Washing pine floor in solution of one
pound of eopperas dissolved in one gal
Ion OF strong lye gives oak color.
Tough meat may be made as tender
as any by the addition of little vinegar
to the water when it is put on to boil
Cabbage is made digestibIe by first
slicing, and then putting in boiling
water with a pinch of soda and some
salt, and boiling just fifteen minutes.
A half bushel of lime and eight
pounds of powdered sulphur make a
whitewash for trees and out-buildings to
kill insects. Put some on chicken roosts.
INK STAINS ON MARBLE.-A few crys-
tails of. oxalic acid, diluted with spirits
of wine, will remove the stains. When
they have disappeared wash well with
water.
To purify cistern water, put peck of
charcoal in a bag and hang it in the
water; it will take up all bad odor. Put
some in the sink, and keep it over the
screen, and no bad small will come from
it.
Old putty can be removed without
injury to sash or glass by passing a hot
soldering iron over it. The heat of the
iron softens it readily, and permits its
removal with knife or chisel without
much trouble.
An excellent yarnish for plows and
other tools that arc. laid away for winter
is made by melting one pound of lard
with eight ounces of Iosin apply it warm
with a brush or swab. Tools thus pro-
tected will come out bright as new in
the spring.
Beeswax and salt will make your
rusty fiat irons as clean and smooth as |
glass. Tie lump of wax in a rag and |
keep it for that purpose. When the
irons are hot, rub them first with the |
wax rag, theh seour with a paper or |
cloth sprinkled with salt.
Pickles are unhealthy as articles of |
food, and often cause acute dyspepsia |
Young ladies addicted to their free use |
nay be assured that they must certainly |
part with their irfavorite'dainty or bid fare |
we'll to good digestion. Cucumbers pre-
pared with salt and vinegar are next to
for digestion.
A HINT FOR RATs-Cover the floor
near the rat hole with layer of caustic
ootassa. When the rats walk on this it |
makes their feet sore, and the result is
hey shun the locality not alone but
appear to tell all the rats in the neigh
)orhood about it, and eventually the
house is abandoned by them.
To cure colds keep cup of pine tar,
md when you feel cold coming on,
lrop some of the tar on live Goals and
nhale the smoke three times day. 1t
s a great relief, will often effect a cure
IN one application and rarely requires
more than two days to break up a cold.
The tar can be obtained at drug store
Like all other remedies, this will be
ound better for some persons than for
,thers. No two systems are exactly |
like.
Mothers are often annoyed by their
.hildren getting CALLED in the creases of
heir bodies-especially the legs and
rms. Common -four parched to a
'rown, and applied to the sore parts, is
N infallible remedy. It will cure in
rom twelve to twenty-four hours.
The best OF all reliefs for a choking
hid, is to take it by the heels and
hake it, with its head down-the OBJ
truction in the throat is sure to fly out.