The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-17
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Household Miscellany

Household Miscellany
Another significant statement is that
about the great increase of mortality
from consumption among the Menomee
Indians of Wisconsin since they began
living in houses. Nevertheless it is an
easy matter to provide for the constant
change of air and the free circulation of
fresh air in rooms even in the coolest
weather-evcn most in the coolest, and
without unpleasant and dangerous
draughts.
The craze for useless bric-a-brac and
insane decoration has had its dav.
Sensible people do not care to live in
china shops or museums, or in apart
ments so crowded with furniture and so
loaded with ornament that q life in
them is a burden, that enthusiasm is
crushed under repletion and appetite
destroyed by safety. A few well-se-
lected decorations are ample proof of
the taste of the owner and may be so
disposed as not to be in the way and
hinder the labors that go on about
them.
Want of exercise and too constant ex-
posure to one condition of dry heat are
common causes of liability to colds, and
so of i'll health. The pores Of the skin
become clogged and inactive. Physical
stir, exertion, labor, as we'll as mental
storm Is necessary to complete develop
ment of a human life-to its long con-
f,p,,o,no orl &c ,,c,F,1pocc ia -,
thankfully meet our physical as we'll as
other hardshlps and brayely bear them,
and surmount them if there is any pos
sibility at all of doing SO. They are
ordered specially to incite us to such
exertion.
The best soil for the chrysanthemum
is a loose. friable loan, we'll enriched
with thoroughly decayed manure, and
the plants when growing should receive
m occasional dose of weak liquid
manure. AS the pots become filled
with roots-which may be ascertained
by carefully turning out the ball-they
must receive a larger size, not forgetting
to ram the soil gently all around the
edges, or, as gardeners say, firm" it.
Use plenty Of drainage, for, notwith-
standing this plant loves plenty of
moisture, it will not thrive with old
stagnant water in the soil.
EPSON SALTs.-"This admirable but
~unsavory drug may, according to Bar
tholow's Materia Medica and my own
experience, be made almost palatable
by boiling one ounce of the salt with
two tablespoonful of ground coffee in a
pint of water in an earthen dish for two
minutes, then setting aside to draw for
a few minutes and straining. The laxa-
tive dose would be about half a tumbler-
full. Coffee aids this action tea binders
it. Would that this harmless but very
efficient medicine might in a measure
prietary preparations which often by
their use create their necessity"
The American Garden makes this
very practical suggestion: Sand is very
essential to window gardening, and it
is we'll to have a box CT it placed in the
cellar where q supply can be obtained
when needed. Warm it in the oven so
as not to chill the plants, and whenever
the surface soil seems heavy, or q green
mold forms. dig it into the soil with a
large hairpin, and mellow the soil. A
large hairpin is an excellent implement
in house-gardening, as it stirs up the
soil in the pots SO easily without throw
ing it out.
Among the beautiful bedroom furni-
ture now in use by our better classes.
whose wealth permits their indulgence
in such luxuries, not the least conspic-
uous are the latest style of gorgeous
counterpanes used for ornamenting
beds during the daytime, with pillow
shams to match. These articles are
made of pale tints OF cream, blue and
Nilegreen Saline, upon which are either
embroidered or painted rose vines and
other floral decorations. The prettiest
counterpance and rillow-shams of this
kind were those presented by a school
mate to Commodore Garrison's grand
daughter on the occasion of her mar
riage to Count de Brialles. They were
composed Of rose-pink ottoman silk,
bearing exquisitely-painted clusters Of
full blown Marguerites and edged with
creamy oriental lace set on to simulate
tiny cascades.