The Portland daily press., 1889-07-01
THE HON e.
PLANT TALK,

Water house plants with cold tea.
One OF the most beautiful ornamental
plants is the castor oil plant. 1t leaf is ele-
CANT, and OF deep green. the plant growing
ten to fifteen feet high in single season.
though it requires rich soil and large guam
tity of manure to be grown to perfection.
Fine, rich compost, or rich earth, is the
best fertilizer for flowers. Roses should be
cultivated by raking the surface of the
ground around them. II Injuries some va
rleties to stir the ground deep. Superphos-
phate is an excellent fertilizer for shrubs and
other hearty boomers.
In watering Towering plants be careful
water does not get into the crowns.
,Geranlums that have done their share of
blooming in summer may be cut back in the
iall, linen set In sunny place for two or
three weeks, given no water to speak of they
Will then flower beautifully in winter
by taking the sweepings from the poultry
house and applying on the flower beds con-
siderable increase in the fertility could read
lily be secnred. When it can be done take
pains to work well into the soil.
MY experience in planting rare and valu-
able plants received in a drought from dis
tant points warrants this advice: Pot them,
shade partially for week and do not trans
plant till vigorous growth has begun and the
weather is propitious. Winds affect newly
SET plants more seriously than the sun. From
secured from one mother strawberry plant
by judicious treatment. Give ample space,
pick off all the blossoms and stimulate with
compost, phosphate, guanO, wood ashes or
liquid manu-e.-[Green's Fruit Grower.
INTERNAL USES OF WATER.
Ordinary drinking water. if taken in large
quantities, acts as a solvent and diuretic,
and also increases the Precipitation If the
temperature of the air be high. Another
effect of large draughts of water is to make
the pulse slower, and to diminish slightly
the normal temperature Of the body.
Increase of weight has been claimed as
result Of systematic water drinking on re-
firing for the night. The latest researches
do not bear out this conclusion. Water thus
taken will prevent any actual loss of weight,
more.
Swallowed as hot as it can be borne, pure
water has lately come into some vogue as on
efficient, remedy for dyspeptie and rheu-
matlc ailments ana for reducing the obesity
consequent upon Idle habits and oyereating.
III is not yet shown that these effects are
caused by the hot water. have seen cases
IN which the treatment, COMBINED with
diet almost exclusively composed of lean
meat and stale bread, has been followed by
a great reduction of the invalid's weight;
eas sNio ioouie oOCiuCQ w lu6 Qut W tLc WlLD-
holding of superintendent food from the
patent, and not to any positive virtue in the
not water itself. In dyspepsia the hot water
treatment sometimes succeeds for the same
reason. Nature. If given chance, has
good zeal 70 say in the cure of ailments that
result from misuse of the digestive organs
But this treatment has the double advantage
OF giving the disturbed stomach comparative
rest. and OF gently stimulating IT to the d.
gestiye duties that 1t cannot wholly forego,
unless tne patient IS to be sustained by faith
alone.-l Harper's Magazine.
HOW HAIR CLOTH is MADE.
Many people understand, of course, how
hair cloth is made, but for the edification of
those who do not we will explain the pro-
cess. In the first place, horse hair cannot
be dyed. 1t repels coloring matter; SO to
make black cloth it Is necessary to secure
natural black hair The horses. in many
cases absolutely wild, running unrestrained
are regularly coralled and shorn. OF course
hlaek hair &c rrafareh,a. hut snmetimas rrav
stock is utilized. Not only the tails, but also
the names are cut; the hair is punched.
These punches seldom contain hairs of less
length than two feet; some are even three
and three and half feet, and the thickness
of the punches is usually two or three inches
The hair-clofh looms are provided with what
the nipper is so finely actuated that it travels
across the warp and seizes from the punches
one hair only, the jaws of the nipper being
too fine to grasp more than one, and carries
1t across the welt threads, dropping it into
Its exact place. The action of the loom me-
chanically forces the hair next to its prede-
cessor. the warp crosses upon 1t, snugly
holds 1t in its place, the nipper travels back
and seizes another, and so on and on. The
delicacy and almost human accuracy with
which each seperate hair is placed between
the warp threads is really increnible-TUp-
holsterer.
HOW TO MEND TlNwARE.
Procure 25-cent bar Of timers solder
and melt it up in old dipping pan, one end
of which has two holes or more it it. When
melted tip the pan so that the melted metal
will run toward the holes. Let it run
through them on a long board or hard wood
floor; pull the pan slowly so as to make the
solder come out in long, slim bars. Cut up
In lengths Of six inches or so. Purchase five
cents worth of mpriatic acid. Scrape the tin
with an old jack knife; if not rustry no acid
Is need. Now light candle or lamp. If a
lamp is used, turn up the cap which is over
the Durner: leave off the chimney. Now
hold the hole in the pan to be mended over
the flame, and with a bar OF solder rub
around the hole: The flame will melt
enough solder to fill the hole In moment,
and the work is done. In this way keep
all my pans and cups mended. 1t is less
trouble than to send to timers and less
trouble than to be pulling strings to fill the
holes: Apply the solder to the side of the
mend before the hole gets to large, as it is
more easily done. Practice first on the
small holes, and then on the larger.