The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-08-10
Ladies Department.
Seasonable Hints for Comfort and
Health,


half drachm of nitrate of lead in
pint of boiling water, then dissolve
two drachms Of common salt in eight
quarts of water. Pour the two mix
lures together. After the sediment
has settled, the liquid is a saturated
solution of chloride OF lead. A cloth
dipped in it and hung up in a room
will purify fetid atmosphere. 1t
may also be used to pour down a
sink, drain, or water closet. This is
very cheap, as a pound of nitrate of
lead will make several barrelluls of
the disinfectar
DAMP CELLARs.-If a cellar has a
damp smell and cannot be thorough.
ly ventilated, few trays of charcoal
set around on the floor, shelves, and
lodges will make the air pure and
sweet. If a large basketful of char
coal be placed in a damp cellar where
milk is kept, there will be no danger
of its becoming tainted.
The following, it is said, is an ad-
mirable cure for damp cellar walls
Boil 2 ounces of grease with 2 quarts
Of tar for nearly twenty minutes in
an iron vessel, having pounded glass
] pound, and slaked lime 2 pounds,
well dried in an iron pot and sifted
through -four sieve. Add some of
the lime to tar and glass to form a
thin paste, only sufficient to cover a
square foot at time about an eighth
of an inch thick.
KEEPING BUTTER.-A simple mode
of keeping butter in warm weather
is to invert a large crock of earthen-
ware, or flower pot, if need be
varying with the size of the vessel
containing the butter), over the dish
or ferkin in which the butter is held
Thepoiousness of the earthenware will
keep the butter cool, and all the more
soifthe pot be wrapped in wet cloth.
with little water in the dish with
the butter. Not the porosity of the
earthenware. but the rapid absorption
of heat by external evaporation,
causes the butter 70 become hard.
To ExPEL MosoUIToEs.-Take of
gum camphor piece about one.third
the size of hens egg, and evapor
ate it by placing it in tin vessels, and
holding it over lamp, taking care
that it does not ignite. The smoke
will soon gil the room and expel the
mosquitoes, and, even though the
the windows should be left open all
night tLey will not enter the room as
long as the odor remains.
How TO Cool A CELLAR.-A great
mistake, says Medical Classics, is
sometimes made in ventilating cellars
and milk houses. The object of ven.
tilation is to keep the cellars cool and
dry, but this object often fails of be.
ing accomplished by common mis-.
take, and instead the cellar is made
both warm and damp, A cool place
should never be ventilated, unless
the air admitted is cooler than the
air within, or is at least as cool as
that, or very little warmer. The
warmer the air, the more moisture it
holds in suspension. Necessarily,
the cooler the air, the more this
moisture is condensed and precipi-
tated. When a cool cellar is aired
on a warm day; the entering air being
in motion appears cool, but as it
fills the cellar, the cooler air with
which it becomes mixed chills it, the
moisture is condensed, and dew is
deposited on the cold walls, and may
often be seen running down them in
streams. Then the cellar is damp
and soon becomes mouldy. To AVOID
this, the windows should only be
opened at night, and late-the last
thing before retiring. There is no
need to fear that The night air is un-
healthful; it is as pure as the air OF
midday, and is really drier. The cool
air enters the apartment during the
night and circulates through it. The
windows should be closed before sun
rise in the morning, and kept closed
and shaded through the day. If the
air in the cellar is damp, it may be