The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-12-06
on ECONOMY AT HONE.
Bill Nye Gives Home Hints, Which he has
Tried on Himself Before Publishing.
1Collier's Once a Week. |

! There are great many luxurie
which we may treat ourselves to, ant
do it very economically, too, if we viii
goat it right. In this way we can, al
slight expense, have those comforts
and even luxuries, for which we woul(
otherwise pay a great price.
Costly rugs and carpets, though
beautiful and rich n appearance, il
volve such an outley of money, tha
many hesitate about buying them; but
a very tasty method of treating floors
inexpensively consists in staining the
border several feet in width, and leav
ing the center of the room for large
rug. Staining for the floor may be
easily made, by boiling maple bark
twenty parts; pokeberry juice, twenty
five parts; hazel brush, thirty parts
and sour milk, twenty-five parts, until
| it becomes about the consistency Of the
theory of infant damnation. Then let
it stand for a few weeks, until the rich
flavor has died down, SO that you can
look at it for quite while without gag
giness; then add vinegar and copperas
to suit the taste, and apply by means OF
a whisk broom. When dry, help your
self to some more of it. This gives the
floor rich pauper's coffin shade, over
which shellac or cod liver oil should be
applied.
Rugs may be made of coffee sacking
or Turkish gunnysacks, inlaid with
rich designs in red yarn, and a beauti-
full fringe may be made by raveling the
edges.
A beautiful receptacle for soiled col
lars and cuffs may be made by putting
a cardboard bottom in discarded and
shattered coal scuttle, gliding the whole
and tying pale blue ribbon on the
pail:
A cheap and very handsome easy
chair may be made by saving into a
-four barrel and removing less than half
the length of slaves for one-third the
distance around, then fasten inside
canvass or duck seat, below which the
barrel is filled with bran. The follow
ing drawing will give the reader bet
ter idea of the chair, as described above.
A neat little mackerel tub makes a
most appropriate foot-stool for this
chair, and looks so unconventional and
rustic that it wins every one at once.
Such chair should also have linz
tied number of tides on its surface.
Otherwise it might give too much salts
faction. A good style of inexpensive
tidy is made by poking holes in some
heavy, strong goods, and then darning
up these holes with something else.
The darned tidy holds its place better,
I think, and is more frequently worn
away on the back of the last guest than
any other.
This list might be prolonged almost
Indefinitely, and I would be glad to
write my own experience in the line of
experiment, if it were not for the dan
ger of appearing egotistical. For in
stance, I economized once in the mat
ter of paper-hanging, deciding that I
would save the paper-hanger's bill, and
put the money into preferred trotting
stock.
So read a recipe in household hint,
which went on to state how one should
make and apply paste to wall paper,
how to begin, how to oapply the paper,
and all that. The paste was made by
uniting flour, water and glue in such a
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.
I took a tape-measure and sized the
walls.
Next I began to prepare the paste
and cook some in large milk-pan. 1t
looked very repulsive 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 I
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 l
took another end ofthe paper and re-
papered her face. cannot bear to have
any one laugh at me when am myself
unhappy.
1t was good paste, if you merely de-
sired to disfgure piano or wife, but
otherwise it would not stick at all.
did not like it. I 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. put in some more glue,
and the last drop of molasses we had il
the house. 1t made q mass which look
ed like unbaked ginger snaps, and
smelled, as imagine the deluge did at
low tide.
1 next proceeded to paper the room.
Sometimes the paper would adhere,
and then it would refrain from adher-
ing. When I got around the room
had gained ground so fast at the top,
and lost time at the bottom of the walls
so much, tina had to put in wedge
Of paper two feet wide at the bottom,
ood +oparjno To q Doint at the ton in