The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-09-26
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Hints for Housewives.

soaking for awhile in cold water be-
fofe boiling.
Folds of newspaper upon a tin or
earthen plate makes q satisfactory
tor the oilcan;
fit is desirable to freshen salt fish
quickly, place it in plenty OF cold wa
ter the flesh side down.
Suspend a small bag of charcoal
in the cistern. 1t will have a purify
ing effect upon the water.
Ceilings that have been smoked
with a kerosene lamp should be
washed off with soda water.
Silver may be kept bright for
months by being kept in an alright
case with a good-sized piece OF cam
phor.
Spare your te~
the top of the fir
in hot " ater b..
remove it.
The haunts of black ants ga,
attractive to the bothersome insects
when powdered borax is scattered
over them.
tits very seldom that the proper
stress is laid upon the thorough ven
tilation of the bedrooms and the ar
ranging of the bed.
Advice from the medical attendant
respecting diet, exercise and manage
ment in the sick room is often lar
preferable to medicine.
"Never scold your wife for crying, :"
says DR.. Agnew. $50 long as a
woman can weep she will never do
anything desperate, and she will have
much more patience than dry eyed
woman"
The labor of ironing is diminished
when clothes are we'll shaken before
hanging out, especially when a
wringer removes the water. Fringed
articles need special attention in this
particular.
The French water-ices are some
times made with syrup of sugar
md water boiled until it forms fine
thread between the thumb and fore
finger. This syrup contains -four
times as much sugar as water.
Miss Frances Graham French, Of
Washington, holds the position otlin,
guist and translator in the bureau o.
education, and is engaged in the
work of classifying 10000 foreign
books in twenty different languages
One way of DISCRIMINATING red ants
is to moisten q sponge with water
scatter sugar over it and place on g
shelf frequented by the pestiferous
mites. 1t will soon be densely popu
lated; then is the time to drop it into
hot water.
The children are now in thei1
cradles who will live to see pauperisn
and drunkenness swept away, like
the hogs that hang over us for weeks
till a strong breeze comes, and smitt
them with the scimitar of light anC
| they are gone.-Mrs. Livermore.
A good work is being done in some
of Boston's suburbs by women's so
cieties supporting Industrial schools
during lifelong summer vacations
These schools are generally for girls
alone, and teach sewing and domestic
arts, and insome cases fine cooking
There is often waste of juice anC
sugar during the process OF baking
fruit pies. By rolling out an undo
paste an inch larger than the plate
and turning it over the fruit when tn
pie is filed the loss will beprevented
Wet with cold water before laying tn
top crust.
English girls are to be laugh
laundry work besides cooking in tn
boarding schools. A committee Q
the London school board and tn
city and guilds institute have jus
completed arrangements for maxim,
an experiment in this unique branch
There was more fairness and com
mon sense in the ruling ola Souther,
official, who, being asked, els Their
any law allowing a woman to hol
such an Officer" answered, lis ther
any law forbidding a woman to hol
such an Officer and, finding tina
there was none, he let the lady VIII
had been appointed keep her position
-Woman's Journal.
An attractive pin cushion is mad
by stuffing three silken sacks firml
with bran or any other material an
tying them together round the neck
with a bow of MORE ribbon. TIL
sacks should be six inches high an
about four inches in width and mad
OF some pretty shade of pongee sill
They may be all of one color tt
match the toilet set or of three di
ferent shades. A light fall of crear
lace falls from the ribbon bow.
1t is true economy to adopt oil res
aids in the laundry room. Anon
those may be classed agood washin
fluid. An ounce of muriate of ammo
MIA, one ounce of salts of tartar an
a box of potashdissolved in a gallo
of boiling water produce a cheap an
eficacious fluid. Soak the clothe
for an hour or two in luke-warm SUD
containing half a cupful of the liquit
and add the same quantity to tt
} water in which the clothes are boileC
: Let the rinsing water be abundan
A drapery for doors orupper part
of windows to cover stained glass, c
to serve as lambrequin, is made I
: seine, fishing rod used in place of