The Monitor., 1885-07-31
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

There are some precautions which the
present high temperature prompts US TO
offer to those who are obliged to labor out
of doors in the hot sun. Avoid drinking
large quantities of cold water; it is better,
if possible, to take small draughts at fire.
anent intervals. If some of the cold water
is poured upon the wrists, or held upon the
temples, or both. the temperature of the
body will be rapidly reduced. and with
better effect upon the system than il taken
internally. A light. white hat is far more
comfortable than black, heavy one, and
If it has q wet cloth, or even fresh cab
bage leaf. placed in the crown, it will he
all the more cool and comfortable. \
light handkerchief tied loosely about the
neck will protect it from the burning sun
A bath at night is very refreshing, but
should not be prolonged.
read SO many cures for felons, and |
viii give you mine. which think is better
than any have seen. As soon as you feel
pain. as though you had briar or thorn IN
your finger, take a stout thread or wrap
ping yarn and commence to wind the fin
ger, always leaving one joint of the finger
between where you commence TO wind and
the afflicted part. Wind tight as you
can ON toward the end of the finger. and
when You have come near the seat of the
pain hold your thread tight and let your
finger beat and throb for five minutes, and
your felon is cured. | have cured half
dozen on myself by this process.
You will save time and hands by using
an old scrubbing-brush for removing the
skins from new potatoes.
Kid shoes can be kept soft and free from
cracks by rubbing them once week with
pure glycerine or olive oil.
A whitewasher tells us that flour of
sulphur mixed in whitewash will drive out
and keep out yermin from the poultry
house.
If tie back legs of a chair are cut an
inch or two shorter than the front ones,
the chair will be easier and more comfort
BILE to sit in.
When tins are made blackened by fire
they should be secured with soap, water,
and fine sand.
Spools sawn into and screwed ON to the
screen doors make good handles for open
ing tlrem.
SCOT falling on carpet. if thickly Gov
cred with salt may be brushed up without
injury to the carpet.
An exchange says that chloroform will
remove paint stains from clothing when
nothing else will.
For years was tormented with ants of
all kinds, large and small. We have eff
fectually rid the house of them by putting
air-slaked lime around the house, close up
to the underpinning every year. Use very
freely
A new way to cook breakfast bacon is
TO soak thin slices in milk 10 cover them
fifteen minutes. Dip in flour and fry in
bacon fat.
Grow crop of string beans and pack
them away in layers, using salt as pack
ing material, and they will keep till beans
are in season again. The crop grow :
quickly. is easily removed when the ground
is wanted again, and yields well. Grow
them in succession, if you want them ten
der and choice The German black wax
are the best.
To serve muskmelon, cut in quarters,
take out the seeds, put together again.
and arrange on grape-leaves.
Small fruit dipped in white of an egg
and then in sugar, or large fruits cut up
and served the same way, are pretty for
tile table.
To serve currants, pile red and white in
glass dish, with border of small, green
leaves.
To can large fruits, lay them on cloth
in the steamer until soft; put them in the
cans, and pour on boiling sirup as sweet
as you wish it.