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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21
COLORED CLOTHES.
How to Wash Prints, Ginghams and Othe,
Cotton Materials.


How to Wash Prints, Ginghams and Other
Cotton Materials.
1t is poor economy to buy any thing
simply because it is cheap and in moth
ing is this truer than in the purchas-
ing of cheap prints for dresses. It does
not pay to make dress of this kind,
for if the colors are good, which, usu-
ally, they are not, the material is thin
and will well repay all the labor and
care spent upon it. In purchasing
prints always see that the colors go
through on the wrong side, and, if so.
they are generally good and the colors
will wear well; but if the pattern is
all on the right side, and the wrong
side of one plain color, they should be
rejected. for they will not wear we'll.
The first washing of prints and cam
brics is always the most important
The clothes should first be placed in
salt and water to set the colors-
Many do not use the salt until the
rinse water, but it is much better used
at first Let them lie in the water I'M
til ready to wash. The following way
is claimed to be excellent for setting
tho colors. although we have never
tried it, having always used cold water
for this purpose wholly. Dissolve
three gills of salt IN four quarts of
boiling water, put the clothes in while
the water is hot, and let remain until
cold. 1t is said that clothes treated in
this way will not fade.
Many women when washing colOred
clothes use the water in which the
white clothes were last washed, and
where the latter were not much soiled
it does very well, but they are much
clearer for having a water for them
especially. Use some good white soap,
and in the water put a tablespoonful OF
household ammonia to pail of water.
If the colors are inclined to run, do not
use the ammonia, although it will not
harm good colors. Wash the clothes
thoroughly, wiring, shake out we'll, and
put Immediately into the rinse water.
Never allow colored clothes, after be-
ing wrung from the suds, to lie piled
together on a table, or in a dish wait
ing the rinse water; but if the water is
not ready, put them in vessel and
cover with clear water, into which
put handful of salt if it
is their first washing. When
rinsed, wiring as dry as possible,
shake out thoroughly, and put out on
the line. Always hang a dress wrong
side out, and use two lines, fastening
the shoulders to one and the skirt, in
two places, to the other. Turn once
or twice while drying, so that parts
may dry equally. Put out on clear
day. and if it should rain, if the colors
are good, it will not harm them; but
if the colors are poor, take in, and if
near dry, finish drying in the house; if
it is wet take in and put in clear water
until the weather is good.
Never boil colored clothes unless in
the case of ginghams that have become
grimy, and some light-colored prints
and cambrics. Most dark-colored
wash goods will not bear boiling, if we
except indigo blues. If borax is dis
solved in the water in which sateens
are rinsed, it will impart the desired
stiffening without the use of starch.
which ought never to be used for these
goods. boston Budget
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21

and studied before there is mastery
that commands respect. Not the boy
or girl who scorns the period becomes
master, but the one who sees in it the
stepping-stone to higher things. How
you would laugh at the little child who,
crying, protesting, or scorning refused
to learn how to add because he wanted
to work problems in algebra!
There are first steps out of school as
we'll as in school.
Ability to work algebra depends on
the quickness and accuracy in addition.
Union.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21
UNMERlTED PRAISE
How Jennie Was Cured of an Unhappy
Trait-A True Story.

How Jennie Was Cured of an Unhappy
Trait-A True Story.
Jennie was, I'm sorry to write, a very
INDECENT little girl. Any thing that
savored of work she was very 10th to
do. Her head would conveniently
ache, or something was generally the
matter if she was called upon to per-
form the least task; and yet, strange as
it may seem, she disliked to be thought
or called lazy; indeed she aimed to get
the name of being Industrious But
she was cured of that kind of deception
in very unpleasant manner.
Jennie had a very sensible mamma
who tried in every way to overcome
her little daughters selfish fault-for
laziness is nothing but real selfishness-
She vainly tried to make the tasks in
teresting. She would take much of her
own precious time cutting and trim
ming dolls clothes, hoping thereby to
conquer her daughters indolent habits
by instilling love for sewing.
There was one task above all others
that Jennie hated; yet her mamma in
sisted upon her doing it every week,
and doing it we'll This was to darn her
papa's socks and her own little stock
ings.
One day, an elderly gentleman-a
distant relative of her papa s-came
from Ohio for a short visit. Jennie
was bustling about quite lively during
his stay, and she did not wait, as
usual, for mamma to produce the dread
ed stocking-bag, but set herself at work
with very Industrious air.
She soon caught the smile of approval
upon the gentlemans face.
"What busy little maidenr' ex-
claimed he, putting down his newspa-
per and doffing his spectacles.
81 always mend papa's socks" said
she, fishing for more praise.
''Indeed. papa is highly favored. Do
you find it pleasant task?''
ooh, yes! See, can 1 not do. 1t nice
ly?' said she, handing him sock.
which was examined by the gentleman
and praised to her hearts content
He then arose, went to his room, and
returning, brought at least a dozen paiz.
of socks that were decidedly the ..worse
for wear"
Perhaps" said he, ''yoa would like
to mend these up for me, as / have no
wife or nice industrious little girl to
call upon. 1t will not take you long
you seem so spry with your needle.
may go away this evening. so please
fix them up to-day. Had snch a smart
little girl to mend them onathe start
they would not be SO badly worn. "A
stitch in time saves nine you know"
Vainly Jennie wished that some5ody
had taken the old bachelors stitches
in times" but there was no other way
than for her to YEARLY ply her darn.
ing needle the 'livelong day." It
proved, however, a day we'll spent, for
It effectually cured her of seeking for
unmerited praise. Fannie l. Fancher.
in Ladies' Home Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21
PLANTING FOR HONEY.
A Move That Is in Keeping with Moder
Agricultural Progress.

A Move That Is in Keeping with Modern
Agricultural Progress.
This subject is just now receiving
much attention. The attempt to make
more reliable and more profitable an
already remunerative pursuit by plant
ing for honey, is only in keeping with
the progress that agriculture has
made and if the unfavorable season
just past has developed nothing moro
than to show the desirability of artifi-
cial pasturage, 1888 will have no I'M
important place in its development.
We believe that much lies in store
for our industry, resulting from ex-
periments in this direction.
While our country is abundant in
natural flora, every section having its
flowers peculiar to it that bloom at
different times in the year, it may
be seen that longer succession of
bloom can be had by the propaga-
ton of different plants. Not only so,
but plants that are deep-rooted and
particularly adapted to dry countries,
may be equally well adapted to dry
seasons. Allow me to conjecture that
if the enthusiasm would be put in
this direction that has marked other
departures of the business, we would
be surprised at the results. Flowers
that now ''bloom unseen" so far as
their practical adoption by the bee
keeping fraternity is concerned, would
be brought into prominence. Yes,
flowers that to-day waste tn cir sweet
ness on the desert air. would be cult
waited for honey.
Rightfully the Government is lending
helping hand in this direction. 1t
can afford it better than an individual,
and while we will watch with interest
Prof. Cooks acres of Rocky mountain
bee plant, Chapman honey plant,
pleurisy root and others, we would not
deprecate the Importance of individual
experimenting and research.
Almost every bee-keeper naturally
becomes, and should be, botanist,
and investigate fully the merits OF the
fora of his vicin- y, and those that
would thrive to advantage, and not
only investigate, but let the results OF
his Investigations be known.-Western
Beekeeper.
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21

her friends. who only lightly indulge
are to be found there on another occa-
sion. There are some queer people in
this world and every one doesn't have
to work hard for a living. -Washing-
ton Cor. Boston Traveler
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21

Large. prominent and luminous eyes
indicate language, power, and verbal
memory. No one ever saw reserved.
saturnine person with pop-eye, or
a pupil possessing them on the Ounce
block. This is the eve of the orator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21

"A South German newspaper illus
trates the sad consequences of bad
punctuation as follows: '.After him
came Lord Salisbury on his head, a
white hat on his feet, large but well
BACKED boots on his brow, a dark
cloud in his hand, the unavoidable
walking stick in his eyes, a threaten
ing look in gloomy silence
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21

1t is hurtful to clover to turn stock
on it in the spring.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21
EVERY DAY.

Any one Know such a boy?
Geo. Cooper, in Golden Days.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22
TO REDUCE DISCOMFORT.
How Ladies' and Gentlemen Should Cou-
duct Themselves in Public Places.

How Ladies' and Gentlemen Should Cou-
duct Themselves in Public Places.
Do not carry your umbrella or Gane
so that the person behind you is
threatened with the loss of an eye, Or
must dodge to avoid a thrust in the
face Or ribs. Be especially careful not
to carry it under the arm at an angle
of forty-ive degrees going up stair
ways.
Do not wait until in front of a rail-
road ticket window to consult the time
table. Do not wait until in front of the
ie&et-seller before your pocketbook is
found. Try to have the money ready,
the exact cs.ange if possible, and re-
member that, while you may have
plenty of time. every n following
you is not so fortune. %
When entering a pew in church, do
not sit down in the aisle end, and COM
pei each person to crowd past you. Go
through to the end, and remember that
to be polite requires that the least dis
comfort and excitement shall be caused
by your acts. Brigands, robbers, or
Indians are not likely to make descents
on public places of worship or amuse-
ment in our day, and women may be
trusted to sit in the aisle end of the
pews and seats.
When there are no reserved seats,
and the whole house is sold at a uni
form price, it is hardly fair for one
person to go and reserve three Or four
seats for her friends, saying ''the seats
are engaged to those who, more just
and polite, refuse to question the in
justice, GAd unquestioningly take less
advantageous seats, though they sacri-
feed time to secure better, and are dis
turbed, after the performance or lect-
r has begun, by. the late arrivals
who had used a friend to defraud the
public.
If you meet a friend in a store, do
not forget, in your W joy of meeting
her, that the clerks time is paid for,
and that you have no fight to monop-
Ollie it to the exclusion of other trads
In leaving church or any public
hall. do not stop in the ~aisie-cn6s of
seats, preventing other peopie from
leaving the building who nay have no
time to spend that way.
To remember that there are other
people who have their own affairs that
need immediate attention, who make
engagements for certain time which
they expect to keep, is to be simply
just. To clog a little as possible tho
currents of travel is the part of every
considerate man and woman.-Chris-
tian Union.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22
HOMEMADE CHEESE.
how q Massachusetts Lady Make q Prime
Article for Home Use.

how a Massachusett Lady Makes q Primo
Article for Home Use.
In these days of cooperative dairy
ing, when cheese is so generally made
at factories, it is impossible to compete
with them in the cost of manufacture
ing by any home dairy, yet it is nice to
have a few old-fashioned homemade
cheese, to recall the good old times
when we used to eat the cheese made
by u grandmothers. This is the
plan of a Massachusetts, lady who
makes rich, fine and ~delicately-
favored cheese. The nights milk
is strained into pans till morning,
when the cream is taken off, and the
milk warmed to blood heat, when the
cream is returned to the milk and thor.
oughly mixed. This prevents the
melting of the cream, that would 9TH
erwise run off with the whey. The
whole is then put into a tub with the
mornings milk and set for the cheese,
with rennet enough to form the curd
in about thirty minutes; and here much
care is thought to be necessary In
cutting and crossing the curd, and
moderation in dipping and drawing
the whey from it that the white whey
$50 called) may not exdde from it.
When sufficiently drained, it is taken
and cut with a sharp knife to abent
the size and form of dice, when it is
sailed with one pound of fine salt to
twenty-five of curd. 1t is then SUBJ
jected to pressure, moderate at first,
gradually INCREASING it for two days,
in the meantime turning it twice a
day, and substituting dry cloths. 1t is
then taken from the press and dressed
all over with hot melted butter, and
covered with thin cotton-cloth, and
this saturated with the melted butter.
1t is then placed upon a shelf, ane
turned and rubbed daily with the dress
ing until ripe for use.-Chicago Jour-
nal.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22
What a Pound Will Yield.

It has been fairly tested that this
weight of wool can furnish in fine yarn
eighty-four thousand yards, lacking
but eighty yards to complete forty.
eight miles. This at the time-more
than one hundred years ago-was re.
garded as a triumph of skill, and it
was said by more than a score of mis-
tresses in the art of spinning that the
worthy dame of East Dereham, in Nor.
folk, could not be beat This was CON
sidered SO great a curiosity that the
Royal Society of England did not hesi-
tate to make honorable record of it.
Since then, however, another lady
''has spun a pound of combed wool
into a thread of one hundred and sixty.
eight thousand yards; and more than
this was her success of producing a
thread two hundred aud three thousand
yards long from the same weight of
cotton. Her ball unrolled would
measure II hundred and fifteen miles.
II this ball of cotton-thread had been
woven it would have made twenty
wards OF muslin one yard in width"
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22
THE HORSES FOOT.
Corns and How to Treat Them-Use of
the Frog.

-
Corns and How to Treat Them-Use of
the Frog.
II a horse is supposed to have a corn,
let the shoe be removed; the inside
quarters of one Or both forefset upon
being pared will show a streaked, in
famed appearance. The horn will be
soft and more spongy than other por-
lions of the hoof. In bad or long-neg-
lected cases, if you follow the corn
with the knife you will come to sup
puration. In all such cases n invari-
able condition is found-the horse
stands upon a thick-heeled shoe and the
frog of the hoof a not touch the
ground. The whole weight of the
horse rests, not upon its natural, elias
tic support, but upon long, horny heels
asnd iron. This condition is a violation
of natural laTs, and corn is the
first and most easily-managed conse-
quence. The smith, whose ignorance
of the anatomy of the organ he has
disabled, is the sole cause of the
trouble, ''cuts out the corn" and
attributes the difficulty to weak
feet, hard pavements, OF gives any
excuse he thinks may answer for the
moment, and puts on, perhaps, a "bar
shoe" He a not tell why he puts
on a bar shoe, but hg kaaws it will
give temporary relief, ana the relief
is in this wise-the bar NUS rest upon
the frog, and the heels cut away to al
low it to do so. This, by a clumsy
contrivance of heavy iron, Il getting a
part of the relief that nature oe&1ands.
1.-THE true relief is in such a systo<tt OF
shoeing as will preserve the natufAs
action of the foot. The natursi action
is with a low heel, to have the frog OF
the foot strike full upon the ground
and press upward, against the DOWN
ward action of the coffin bone, JUST as
a spring acts when a weight is thrown
upon it.
The horses hoof, continues tue au-
thority quoted, is simply a boot; IN
side of it is a true foot. The frog IS
only a part of the hoof that has a ner"'
GUS connection with the living tissue
inside the horn. Just above the frog
is the sensitive frog, and on this rests
the coffin bone. The vascular bone is
connected with the hoof sy elastic
lamina, and moves in the hoof by the
action of the horse, having its natural
rest upon the frog. If the horse stands
upon a rim of iron, the center ofr@+,
hoof is unsupported; the points of the
pressure are under each wing of the
coffin bone. From lack of action the
frog dries up and loses its function;
the sensitive frog ssmpathizes in this
condition. Circulation and secretion
are lessened. There is more Or less
fever, probably not perceived by the
groom, or, if perceiv ID, he ~''stuffs' the
feet, Inflammation bEins at the points
of pressure under the wings Of the
coffin bone and the horse has a orn
The cure of thEDdefect is obvious when
the cause is stated; it is to shoe so that
the horse will invariably stand upon
his frog. This must be secured by the
use of a shoe that will admit no other
bearing. No horse can travel safely
without the use of the frog.-Whip and
Rein. Q
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22
HOMES OF CASTAWAYS.

Thoughts Suggested ~ a Recent Dis
coverY at Palmerston Island.
The recent discovery by a British
bark that the small Polynesian island
known as Palmerston island is inhab-
tied by men of our race, will revive the
hopes of those who have long incurred
for relatives lost on the Pacific. There
is hardly a person in California who
car not recall the memory ofsome n
who went to sea long ago ON the widest
of the oceans, and was never heard of
again. Spiritualists and other impos-
tors have reaped a living by deluding
survivors with stories of the happy life
Of the supposed corpse on some sunny
isle, where, as the poetess sang. the
skies forever smile and the beaches
forever weep. Now that we are actu-
ally finding crews long since wrecked
on islands far out of the track of pass
ing vessels, it must be expected that
these sanguine hopes will be revived.
Palmerston island is only one exam
pie. 1t was found to be occrpied by
an English sailor, who had lived there
for twenty-five years. He had DESERT
ed from his ship at Tahiti in a small
boat, had picked up a wife on a pass
ing island, and had made himself a
home on Palmerston, where he was
lord of all he surveyed. The nearest
land is three hundred miles away; his
subjects number thirty-three, of whom
fifteen are his w children. In/two
years it will be a century since the
m%utineers of the Bounty established
themselves On Pitcairn's island. They
E1ed there eighteen years before they
were discovered, and even now one
only hears of them at intervals. Three
quarters of a century ago three sailors
established themselves on Tristand
Acunha. They got wives from St.
Helena, and led happy lives, seldom
communicating with the rest of the
world.
SIN the tropical zone an island
which bears cocoanuts and plantains,
and On the shores of which fish are to
be found, will sustain human life in
definitely without Imports from the
civilized world. But little uclothing is
necessary, and food, with but slight
labor, can be made abundant and
varied. What sort of life the inhabit-
ants would lead we can learn from
Robinson C~rusoe" and Charles
Reade's Foul Play" To one who is
accustomed to his daily papers and to
the hum and stir of the busy world,
life would be a trifle moAotonous, but
there are persons in every age for
whom the r of a hermit has
charms. 1t is quite possible that many
islands which sea captains class az UNI
inhabited are really the home of casta-
ways, and it might be worth the while
of the schooners which sail out of this
point to Polynesia in quest of copra to
keep a lookout as they pass them
San Francisco Call.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22
GOING OUT AND COMING IN.

Going out to buy US clothing,
Going out the bills to pay:
Coming in SO very slowly,
Coming in each working day:
Going out from US SO easy,
Coming in, so hard to win,
Ceaseless stream Of little pennies
Going out and coming in.
. Through the many wants of hone-lifa.
From beneath our humble cot,
To the butcher and the baker
Where the meat and bread are bought
From the old and much-worn wallet,
To the cruel world of greed;
Going out with signs and sadness.
Z To supply each family need
Through the wants that crowd us daily,
Through the bills that must be met,
Through the many needs of children,
Where the family's growing yet,
To the busy world about us,
With its heartless woe and sin,
Restless stream of little pennies
Rushing u into the din.
Coming back so very slowly.
Though we try to toll and save;
Coming to the dear old homestead,
Coming in to keep us brave;
Weary, are we very often,
Weary, when we try to win
From the world the little pennies,
Which are slow "a coming in.
Going out to pay the taxes,
Coming in our hearts to cheer;
Going out to pay for schooling,
Coming in to family dear;
Ceaseiess stream of little pennies,
Which we find so hard to win,
From the doorways of the homestead,
Going out and coming in.
Portland Transcript.