St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31
NYE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
His Experience With Wall Paper
ing and Turkish Baths for Home

do 1t very economically. too, II we Will
go at it right. In this way we can, at a
slight expense, have those comforts and
even luxuries for which we would other
wise pay great price.
For instance. l economical once in
the matter of paper hanging, deciding
that l would save the paper hangers
bill and put the money into preferred
trotting stock.
So read recipe in household hint,
which went on to state how one should
make and apply paste to wall paper,
how to begin, how to apply the paper
and all that. The paste was made by
uniting flour, water and glue in such
way as to secure the paper to the wall
and yet leave it smooth. according to
the recipe. FIRST the walls had to be
sized however.
took tape measure and sized the
walls.
Next l began TO prepare the paste and
cook some III large milk pan. 1t looked
very repulSiye, indeed, but it looked so
much better than it Smelled that did
not mind: Then put about five cents
worth OF it on one roll of paper, and got
up on chair to begin. My idea was
to apply it to the wall mostly, but
the chair tipped, and so l papered the
piano and my wife ON the way down.
My wife gasped for breath. but soon tore
hole through the paper so she could
breathe. and then she laughed at me.
that is the reason | took another end of
the paper and repapered her face. 1
cannot bear to have any one laugh at me
when am myself unhappy.
1t was good paste. if you merely de-
sired to diStigure piano or wife, but
otherwise it would not stick at all. |
did not like it. | was mad about it. But
my wife seemed quite stuck on it. She
hasn't got it all out of her hair yet.
Then man dropped in to see me
about some money that l had hoped to
pay him that morning, and he said the
paste needed more glue and quart of
molasSes. L put in some more glue and
the last drop of mOlasSeS we had in the
house. 1t made a mass which looked
like unbaked ginger snaps and smeiled
as imagine the deluge did at low tide.
next proceeded to paper the room.
Some times the paper would adhere,
and then it would refrain from adher-
ing. When got around the room had
gained ground so fast at the top, and
lost time at the bottom of the walls SO
much, that L had to put in wedge of
paper two feet wide at the bottom, and
tapering to point at the top, in order
to cover the space. This gave the room
the air of one that had been tOyed with
by an impatient cyclone.
L went 10 bed very weary, and
abraded in places. had paste in my
pockets, and bronze up my nose. LIN
the night could hear the paper crack.
just as | would get almost to sleep. it
would pop. That was because the paper
was contracting and trying to bring the
dimensions of the room down to fit it.
In the morning the room had Shrunken
so that the carpet did not tit, and the
paper hung in large molasses-covered
weltS Oh the walls. 1t looked real gro
tesque. | got paper hanger to come
and look at it. He did so.
''And what would you advise me to
do with it, sir?!'' | asked with degree
of Difference which L had never before
shown to a paper hanger.
''Well, | can hardly say at first. 1t is
very bad case. You see, the glue and
stuff have made the paper and wrinkles
so hard now, that it would cost great
deal to blast it off. DO you own the
house,"
Yes, sir. That is, have paid one
half the purchase price, and there is
mortgage for the balance"
"Oh. Well, then you are all right"
said the paper hanger with a CLEAN of
hope in his eye, ''Let it go on the
mortgage"
Then | had to economic again, so
next resorted to the house method of
administering the Turkish bath. You
can get Turkish bath in that way at ii
OF AZ to cents, which is fully as good
as one which will cost you dollar or
more in some places.
l read it i'll paper. My wife said
she would help me. So she read the di-
rectiOns. and | got out the alcohol lamp.
There are two methods of administer
ing the low-price Turkish bath at home.
One consists in placing the person to be
treated in cane-Seat chair, and then
putting pan of hot water beneath this
chair. Ever and anon hot stone or
hot fiat iron is put into the water by
means of tongS, and thus the water is
kept boiling, the steam rising in thick
masses about the person in the chair.
who is carefully concealed In large
blanket Every time a hot flatiron or
stone is dropped in the pan it spatrers
the boiling water up the bare limbs OF
the person who is being operated upon,
and if you are living in the same coun-
try with him, you will hear him wreck
ing his chances beyond the grave by
stating things that are really wrong.
The other method, and the one |
adopted, is better than this. You apply
the heat by means of spirit lamp, and
10 one, to look at little 15-cent lamp,
wonld believe that it had so much heat
in it till he has had one under him as
he sits in wicker char.
A wicker chair does not interfere
with the lamp at all. or cut off the heat,
and one if so swarthed in blankets and
rubber overcoatS that he an'thelp him
self.
My wife got me seated that way. and
then applied the torch. Did the reader
ever get out OF bath and sit down on a
wire brush to put on his shoes. and feel
a startled thrill peryading his whole
being? Well, that is good enough as
far as it goes, but it does not really
count when you have been through the
Home treatment Turkish bath.
After my wife had me arranged she
went into another room to read new
book in which she was greatly inter
ested. While she was thus storing her
mind with information, she thought
she smelled something burning. She
went around all over the house trying
to find out what it was. Finally she
found out.
1t was her husband. | called to her,
of course, but she wanted me to wait
until she had found out what was on
fire. | tried to tell her to come and
search my neighborhood, but presume
| did not make myself understood, be-
cause | was excited, and the fluff and
bloom of my calves were being siiged
off in way that may seem funny to
others, but not to one who has it to pass
through.
1t bored me quite deal. Once the
Wicker seat of the chair caught fire.
'.Oh, heavens" | cried, with a sudden
pang of horror, IAN l to be thus de
5KQured by the fire fiend? And is there