The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-04
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Many persons prefer almond meal
or oat meal to soap for washing the
face and hands.
If any plants have been nipped by
frost. water very sparingly until fresh
leaves have unfolded.
-Hoarseness may be relieved by eat
ing freely Of fresh raw egg beaten
thick with fine white sugar.
Grained woods should be washed
with cold tea. and then, after being
wiped dry, rubbed with linseed oil.
Whether lamp explodes or is over
turned, the only rational attempt to sx-
tinguish the fire is by smothering.
Water only spreads the oil and thus in
creases the evil.
Dried Preserves-Any fruit which
has been preserved in strip may be
drained from the sirup. dried slowly.
sprinkled with powdered sugar. and
packed neatly in boxes.
For collie. cold, fever. convul-
sions-indeed, at the outset OF an at
tack of most any infantile derange-
ment bath is invaluable. and not in
frequently the only remedy required.
DO not take either very hot or very
cold foods or drinks. they crack the
enamel of the teeth, and thus destroy
them; they also weaken the salivary
glands, enfeeble the stomach, and i'm
pair digestion.
Five cents worth of vaseline. which
is tasteless and odorless, will cure all
the chapped hands, sunburned faces and
cracked lips, heal all the sores. burns
and abrasions with which family would
ordinarily be afflicted.
Cream Beets.-Cut three or four
boiled beets into pieces the size of a
grain of corn. Place in stew pan; to
one pint cut beets add one teacupful
rich, sweet milk, piece of butter size of
butternut, or small egg. Salt and
pepper to season. Stew ten minutes
and serve hot.
To whiten and preserve the teeth
take one ounce of borax, and put it in
three pints of boiling water; before it is
quite cold add to teaspoonful of
spirits of camphor. When cold put in
a bottle, and cork tightly. A table
spoonful is to be used daily in the same
quantity of tepid water.
One of the incest contrivances for
keeping knives. forks and tablespoons
in is a pocket tackled on the pantry
door. Make this of enamel cloth, and
line with red canton flannel, stitching
small divisions to fit each article. The
canton flannel will absorb all moisture
that may be left on these articles.
Good humor is conducive to health
and long life; worry has more victims
than work, and good humOr is certainly
a great producer of good looks. Not
only expression. but even the complex
ion we are usually anxious to preserve
depends upon the temper, whether
amiable or the reverse.-RuraL Ne,0
Yorker.
Many methods are recommended
for the cure of the habit of biting the
nails, such as wearing glove-tips, the
application of bitter aloes or some
equally disagreeable substance to the
finger-ends, or tying up each separate
finger in cloth. None of these. how
ever, can be said to be Of any real
benefit, and prove almost as much of a
Disagreement rs the bitten nails. The
only proper mode is to determine to
exercise ones will in the matter, and
with the majority of persons it proves
effectual, although some time may
elapse before reform is evident When
the nails begin to grow, keep them
nicely rounded by trimming all pro-
jecting edges.