Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-03

| sEAsoSABLE SUGGESTIONS FOR PRACTICAL HOUSE
xEEPERs-REcIPEs WORTH REMEMBERING
HINTS FOR THE DINING ROOM, PANTRY AND
kITcHEN-sANITARY REcoMMESDArIoNs-
Two TEAcUPs (LEvEL) OF GRADUATED SUGAR
| weigh one pound.
PATIENT RUBBING WITH CHLoRoroRM will
| remove paint from black silk or other material
If QULTs ARE FOLDED OR ROLLED tightly
after washing, then beaten with rolling-pin
or potato masher, it lightens up the cotton and
| makes them soft and new.
DILUTED LAUDANUM Is EXCELLENT TO apply
to sores or wounds to heal them. II the
| wounds are fresh and of great extent care
must be taken to not use il full strength nor
| too freely.
| NEVER ENTER SICK Room in q state Of per-
SEPARATION, as the moment you become cold your
pores absorb. Do not approach contagious
diseases with an empty stomach nor sit be-
tween the sick and fire, because the heat at
| tracts the vapor
| DROP CAkEs.-one cup Of butter, three cups
OF sugar, five cups of -four, three eggs, beaten
hight; one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoon of
soda, two teaspoons Of cream tartar. Drop in
tins and bake quickly. For molasses drop
| cakes use two cups of moasses instead of sugar
| and add two teaspoons of ginger.
BEEF ToSGUE.-Get a smoked tongue (fresh
smoked) from your butcher. Put on to cook
in cold water. When the water comes to boil
pour off and put on more cold water Boil
until very tender. Set aside to cool when done.
| linen skin on the outside and pare off all the
tat. Cut In thin slices and garnish with parsley.
REMOVAL AND PREVENTION OF DANDRUFF.-
Two ounces of pulverized borax, two ounces of
| gum camphor, broken in small pieces. one
quart Of boiling water. Bottle and cork tightly
| Before each time of using strain a small guam
tlty and dilute with an equal portion of water.
| Apply to the head with flannel cloth or with
| the hands. Wash the head and hair afterward
| with soft water.
| Sort WATER FOR BREAD.-Hard water con-
tains too much limestone and that causes
bread baked with it TO soon dry out II you
use soft water to mix the dough you get a
| much better article of bread and one that
Will retain it's freshness. A good plan is to set
emp OF water in the oven when your bread is
baking. This will enable you to get softer
bread and only half as thick a crust.
FLY AND MosoUIro REMEDIEs.-It is said that
| piece of cloth saturated with turpentine hung
| in a closet where there moths or in a room
| where flies are troublesome will kill the moth
miller and Danish the flies Twenty drops of
carbolic acid evaporated from a hot shovel
will so far to Danish flies from room, while a
bit of camphor gum the size Of a walnut held
| over lamp till it is consumed will do the same
| for the active mosquito.
If THERE SHOULD OCCUR case of typhoid
fever or diphtheria near you during the sum-
mer weather test the drinking water or have it
done at once. few cents will buy an ounce
OF saturated solution of permanganate of pot
| ash 1t a chemists. II, when a drop of this
| solution is added to a tumbler of water its
color changes to brown it is unfit to drink: if il
remains clear, or slightly rose-clored, after an
hour, it is, broadly speaking, safe.
IT Is, AS Is SHOWN By MEDICAL CLASSICS. mis-
take to suppose that because milk is LIQUID that
it is at the same time drink capable of satisfy
| ing the thirst of infants Although milk ap-
| peases hunger it makes thirst more intense
after il remains some time in the stomach and
| its digestion has begun. 1t is thirst which
| causes healthy breast-nourished infants to cry
| for long periods of time, in many instances
There are many cases of indigestion due to
| weakness OF the childs gastric juice or INSULT
cheney, which would be greatly benefited or
| even cured if the child were allowed an occa-
sional drink Of water.
HINTS FOR SUMMER.-An excessive amount of
| fruit, or if eaten either in the unripe or over
ripe state, produces various disturbances in the
system, chiefly so because Of its tendency to
ferment and decompose within the digestive
| tract and to produce stomach and bowel dis
orders. II these disturbances are not too great
or too prolonged they need occasion no special
anxiety. A dose of castor oil, to which a few
drops Of laudanum have been added, is usually
sufficient to clean out the irritating debris"
and in a day or two the natural equilibrium is
restored. If there is much gripping and pain
with the movements and these become too nu-
| merous to be comfortable the dose of oil
should be followed by curtailing actiyity-by
quiet and repose-by diet of meat broths,
containing rice, barley or sage; by rice and
milk toast, &c. The following recipe, known
as the Sun cholera mixture, is a useful and
| ''handy thing" to have about for .just such
disturbances: Take equal parts of tincture of
cayenne, tincture of opium, tincture Of rhu-
barb, essence OF peppermint and spirits Of
camphor and mix well. Dose-15 to SO drops
in a winegiass Of water, according to age and
violence of the attack. Repeat every Is or 90
minutes until relief is obtained.
SANITARY SueaEsrIoNs.-To keep the pores
of the skin open there is nothing that will do
this work well soap and water Rain
water is the best where it can be conveniently
used. Have the water quite warm and with
some white CASTLE soap make q suds. with
which wash the face thoroughly, then rinse in
warm clear water and dry on a soft towel II
the skin is not sensitive brisk rubbing is a
great addition to open the pores This wash
ing should take place just before retiring.
Then, in the morning wash in clean warm
water, emitting the soap. II il is necessary to
go out immediately after washing do not use
the warm water. but cold, as the face will be
monia in hard water will render It soft and
cleansing TO the skin, but have care Of put
ting in too much ammonia, or il may chafe the
skin. Borax is also good to soften the water
and is great healer and cleanser. A quarter
of a teaspoonful to q basin of water is usually
q sufficient quantity. II the skin is apt TO be
too dry the ammonia or borax ought not 10 be
used frequently, but instead, q little yaseline
or diluted glycerine will be found beneficial.
A few drops Of spirits Of camphor in the water
once . week is good 10 whiten the skin.
Chewed to the Tune Of the Music.
From the Boston Times.
He-''You evidently knew that song. II
noticed that your mouth kept moving as though
you were repeating the words"
6he-"No, George, that was gum"
One Hundred Degrees In the Shade.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
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