The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-18
PiRM AND HOUSEHOLD.
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A messenger has .at last arisen with
the good tidings that a sponge soaked
in creosote not only drove away the red
ants for @ time from q haunted closet.
but for allthe time since, which is lucky
for people who would as easily choose
the ants as the creosote smell constant
~ among their sweet things and food.
Ants do not swim canals. Make o moat
OF q yellow happy, OF other fat dish,
around CAKE box or open preserve lar.
and you are secure. 1t is not convenient.
certainly, to keep up the reservoir sys-
tenn, but it is sure.
Many of the pieces that compose
crazy quilts are now painted. A square
of white silk has a corner spray of
violets and one of cardinal, a couple of
half-blown tea-rose buds. A stripe Of
white satin ribbon is adorned with q
graceful spray of arbutus blossoms, and
n of palest blue is decorated with
pink heath. An oetagon shaped piece
OF black plush has painted upon it a
little circular landscape surrounded by
sprays of flowers, another has q gilded
horseshoe suspended from a towering
spray of IN apple tree, while from the
very bottom Of the piece spring daisies
and grasses. Pretty memorial blocks
have the initials Of the donor in Gilt
frosted over with diamond dnst and en-
twined with sprays of iowers.-Amer-
Jean Queen.
REMoDELNG A LOUNGE. II have
been ~remodeling an old lounge, and
am SO pleased with che result that I
will give a description of the process, as
it might help some Of your readers to
do as l am trying to do, and that is to
make home pleasant and comfortable,
with very little money to do it with.
Having an old frame Of O common
Straight lounge to begin with, my hus-
band kindly nailed it solid, and made a
headboard Is inches high; / then pad
ded it to resemble a couch, using straw
for the filing, covering it with gay
cretonne; and 10! the result is a piece
of furniture which is nice looking, as
we'll as very comfortable.
TO CAS CoRN.-Use glass cans. Cut
the corn from the cob, press 1T into the
csns till the milk flows over. Put on
the tops, screw down tight. Place
Diem In a boiler with sticks on the bot
Tom, pour in cold water enough to
about two-thirds cover them. Boil
five hours. When about ~half-cooked,
remove o can at a time, tighten the
tops and replace.
A Fly PREyENTIyE.-An Iowa lady
writes to an exchange, 9For three
years ! have lived in town, and during
that time my sitting-room has been free
tom flies, three only walking about my
breakfast table, while all my neighbors'
nors are crowded. / often congratu-
LATED myself ON my escape, but never
New the reason Of it until o few days
do. I then had occasion to remove my
goods to another house, while / re-
mSi4ed on for q few days longer. Among
other things removed were two boxes
Of GeEaniulns and ~calceolarias' which
stood Id my window, being open to its
toll extent, top and bottom. The boxes
we're not gone half an hour before my
room was as full Of flies as those of my
heighbors around me. This, to me, was
. new discovery, and perhaps it may
serve to encourage others in that which
is 'always o source of pleasure, namely,
Window gardening. Mignonette, plant
Cd IN long, shallow boxes, placed On the
window sill, will be- found excellent for
this purpose"
ROUND SHoULDERs.-N. A. writes:
Perhaps my experience will be of bene-
fit to some one. When twelve Or four
teen years Of age / was so round-shoul-
dered and hollow-chested that my par
ents feared / might have consumption.
They required me to straighten up,
throw back my shoulders, and at the
same time inhale slowly as much air as
ny lungs would hold, retain it IS long
1s I could without too much effort,
then exhale In the same manner. This
j did many times a day. Isoon became
stronger, my chest expanded, and in a
year or two / stood erect. 1t is difficult
for children who are growing fast and
have become much stopped 20 return an
dfeot position. No one knows how tir-
ihg it is until he has tried it: Lifting
and otherwise caring for babies u apt
To draw the shoulders forward, and
mothers would do well fthey would
tkequently initiate the lungs as above
e~uggested."
nxosher speak Kindly.