The Dickinson press., 1889-10-12

hiuts tOr housewives.
A raw cranberry, cut in two, and half Of
1t bound over a corn, is recommended as n
relief.
Individual plates for vegetables are not
used mich now Only salads arc separately
served
Cold tea is the best thing with which to
clean grained wood. Never use ammonia
for this work.
After washing a wooden bowl dry it at a
distance from the stove, so that it NAV not
warp or crack.
When recipes call for u cupful it means
Just half a pint. this amount IN granulatcd
sugar weighs just half a pound.
Salt will curlle now milk; so in preparing,
custards or porridges the salt should not be
added until the dish is prepared.
Red pepper pods or II few pieces of char
coal thrown into the pot in which onions,
cabbage, etc. are being boiled will prevent
the unpleasant odor.
Starch Polish.-A piece of ~stearinc candle.
spermaceti or white wax as large as a robins
egg will give n nice gloss. A teaspoonful of
salt to each pint of starch will prevent stick.
ing.
Always sift your flour when you use it,
warming it a little afterward if tue weather
be cold. Sitting twice is even better than
once, US you get more air between the parti-
cles.
Spirits of ammoni is the best thing to
clean hair brushes with, as it does not soften
the brlstles like soap or soda. If a teaspoon
ful of ammonia is mixed with a quart of
water, the brush need only be dipped in the
solution for q moment and all grease is re-
moved. The brush should then be rinscd in
cold water, shaken well and dried in the air,
but not i'll the sun.
The ordinary method of scraping or burn
ing off old paint is hardly expeditions enough
for general purposes, and is also laborious,
Soda and quicklime are far more thorough,
The solution of half of each is thus made:
Dissolve the soda in water, and then add the
line and apply with a brush to the old paint,
which can thus be removed in a few minutes.
Biting the lips frequently makes them sore.
and for hard, dry lips q little pure glycerine
lightly rubbed in at night is often beneficial,
A harmless application for the same purpose
Is made OF a quarter of al ounce of white
wax, with one teaspoonful each of glycerine
and mutton suet. The wax and suet are
melted separately, and then the whole mass
Is well mixed and turned into a mold to cool.
Air mine
DR.. Felix Oswald, in a recent article In a
medical journal, shows that fifty-fve out Of
lW white children die before they complete
seven years of life, but he asserts that hardly
i've of that humble are born with germs OF
an early death and that two-thirds of the
the remainder perish from want of life mir
1t is too commonly assumed that u child's
lungs are too weak to stand ordinary fresh
air. to judge by the precautions that are
taken to shut up every possible avenue
through which pure air can enter a room il
|. which it is kept. There is perhaps no subjec,
pertaining to hygiene upon which parent.
and nurses act SO ignorantly or so pertina
clously refuse to be instructed as in this vita
necessity of fresh air to every human being
young or old, sick or well. 1t is all the NOR,
needful to the delicate child or the ailins
adult than to others, if that is conceivable
when it is SO certainly essential to the healtl
OF al. The abuse, however, is more notice
able III the case of young children, and in
tants especially, who are entirely under th
control of Others in the matter, and suffer
from their lack of Judgment or fatally mis-.
directed prudence.
DR. Oswald remarks: Boys in knee
breeches often manage to remedy the evil
by dint of strategy, while their petticoated
juniors have to stand the brunt Of paternal
lnfatuatlon. Every form of disease is ag-
gravated by the influence of impure air.
Human beings can live a long time without
food, but without air they cannot live six
minutes. Their vitality is proportionately di
minished by the lack of pure air and the sub
staution of air that is vitiated and inadequat,
to supply the sustenance required from it.
One cause of mischief in this direction i
the confusion in many minds of the relation
of heat aud cold to pure Or impure dir. Room
are shut up tightly to keep in the heat, an.
some economical but obtuse people canno
possibly see the use of having a warm fir
with the window or door open. 1t looks t
them like a piece of extravaganza, and ri
you ant the door open what do you want
fire forT' seems to them a question incapabl
of reasonable answer Hence air famine
not alone inflicted on the babies, but is fr.
quently made to curse the individual aud th
family through life.-Good Housekeeping.
Manifesto of French Women Against Wa
We women belong to all lands;
We, who form half the contingent Of til
nations;
We whom the laws Of men have exclude