Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-09-02
WOMAN AND HOME.
SANITARY SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE
TO THE HoUsEkeepER.
GYM astics for Girls-daking Sand
To Preserve Cut FIowers-Gentls-
men of the Old Sehool-F1ute and
Truinpet-stray Notes


loo much importance can not be attached
TO the work Of keeping clean all sinks and
wastepipes Nd disagresable odor from
these should be allowed 70 exist for a day.
A sink or Pipe may be made inodorous by
pouring dowI it one pound Of copperas dis
solved in four gallons Of water, using one
fourth the quantity day for four days
and repeating as often as necessary.
All corners, under porches, and where the
sun does not reach have Of course had their
share of the general cleaning up in the
spring, but it is well to examine them once
every week during the summer time, espec-
tally if number OF servants are kept. for
the best OF servants are apt to be careless
unless their mistress keeps watchful eye
over things
A mixture Of one pound of charcoal,
powdered, to four pounds Of platter Of paris,
sprinkled under porches or in damp corners,
will prove an excellent disinfectant Chior-
ide OF lime is also good to be used for the
same purpose.
Disagreeabl odors arising from decaying
vegetable matter can be destroyed at once
by pouring over it two pailfuls OF water, tc
one Of which has been added one pint of the
liquor of chloride of zinc and to the other
one pounI Of chloride of lime
1t is always a good plan to give the cellar
one coat o. whitewask at spring cleaning
time, then give it second coat in July. II
cnpparas be added TO to this last coat, it
will do much to keep the cellar free from
vermin.
II cellar has damp smell. and can not
be thoroughly ventilated, few trays OF
Charcoal Sc. around on floor. shelves, and
lodges viii make the air pure ami swset II
a large bucketful of charcoal be- placed in
damp cellar where milk is kept there will
be no danger Of its becoming tainted.
Charcoal is one OF the best agents for
purifyin. foul water If cistern water has
TN unpleasant odor from the cistern being
too closely covered. it may LIZ made a
sweet-smeiling as when fresh by suspendiny
in the water muslin bag containing one or
more pounds Of charcoal, according TO the
size of the cistern.
Rain water will often become foul from
the decaying Of the vegetable matter which
has been carried with the water through the
pipes down into the cistern from the roof
BY using one ounce of permaganate Of po-
tassa for each fifty gallons OF water, the
contents of the ci,tern will bs made as clear
and odorless rs well water. The quantity OF
water in the cistsrn can he easily guessed at
The permanganate should be put in and the
water thoroughly stirred up. 1t will turn
bright purple II it does not turn Clear
again in a few minutes a little more permsn-
ganate must bs added. All the refuse in
the water viii settle in q harmless sediment
at the bottom Of the cistcrn-
IL there is the least suspicion that The well
water is not as pure as it should be, it
should he boiled or filtered. Boiled water
is highly recommended. 1t can be made as
cold as fresh water by setting it for time
in the ice box. or it may be cooled by add
ing little pure ice.
Very good filters can lie made with little
trouble. a large filter can be made thus:
Provide a water-tight barrel; place q stop
cock in the lower part Of the barrel, even
with the bottom; fill the barrel half full OF
small clean pebbles; above the stones place
three thicknesses of flannel; tack it around
the sides of the barrel. but leave it slack
enough to rest on the pebbles: on this place
u layer Of charcoal three inches thick, then
as deep a layer Of clean washed river sand,
over the sand another layer OF peb-
bles, then a layer Of charcoal, one Of
pebbles. and so until the barrel
in full to within two inches Of the top, max
ing the last layer of pebbles. Bore several
large gimlet-holes in the bottom Of a good
sized wooden pail, and set it on top OF the
stones. The water is poured into the pail,
from which it runs slowly through the holes
in the bottom, and after filtering through
the contents Of the barrel is drawn off
through tho stop-cock at the bottom OF the
barrel
The warmer and damper the weather, the
more care must he exercised to prevent
food from spelling. By placing dish con-
tanning gcod-sizsi lump OF unslacked lime
on one of the shelves in the refrigerator, the
moisture will all be absorbed, SO removing
all danger from mould, and insuring the
safe-keeping OF the fool for long time.