The Portland daily press., 1890-03-29
HOUSEHOLD MOTEL.

To renovate plush goods sponge carefully
with chloroform. This is also excellent fol
restoring the color to goods that are faded.
Plaster OF Paris Will stop leak OF almost
any kind. 1t will mend tin ware-so will
putty-broken lamps, holes in plaster, and
comes handy In many ways.
Miss Maynard, of the Boston Cooking
School, says it is great mistake and the
cause of many failures In cookery to dissolve
soda in liquid, ALWAYS sift it in flour meal
Whenever baking powder is substituted fol
soda or cream tartar. always allow little
more for the rice flour used in the making Of
the powder.
Liquid glue possessing great resisting
power, and particularly recommended fol
wood and iron, is prepared. according to
HesZ, as follows: Clear gelatine, 100 parts
cabinet makers glue, 100 parts; alcohol, q
parts; alum, parts, the whole mixed with
200 parts of 20 per cent acetic acid and
heated in water bath for six hours.
To cut meat with the grain will make il
tough, no matter how good the meat.
When potatoes or rice are done drain of
the water and cover them with a coarse
towel that will allow the steam to pass off
but will retain the heat. Covering them
with tight lid will surely cause them to be
sticky, dark and illfavored.
The best liquid for cleaning old brass is q
solution of oxalic acid.
A damp cloth dipped in common soda will
brighten tinware easily.
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SO inches wide, for facing skirts that are to
do duty in wet weather. This facing will
not wet through, when muddy can be wiped
off with a damp towel, and half yard will
suffice for one skirt.
In dampening clothes for ironing, use
warm water as hot as you can bear the hand
in, sprinkle fine, fold smooth, and roll up
tight. and they will iron much easier. The
hot water penetrateS more readily, and you
do not need to dampen so much as with cold
water.
Every school boy is not aware that ink
spots can be removed from the leaves OF
books by using solution of oxalic acid in
water.
In rolling pastry pound it out rather than
roll it for rolling causes 1t to stick more east
ly and II it once sticks it will surely do SO
on Lne board as possible for the added flour
renders the paste tough.
Honey should never be kept in cellar
neither comb nor extracted. That is the
worst possible place for 1t. 1t will gather
moisture or Sweat" and soon become .of
flavor" If not possibly sour. Store in dry
warm room IL possible (safe from mice), then
1t will keep ten years. 1t will not granulate
so quick In warm room, and its flavor will
improve.
DR.. Munds says that to the imprudent act
of getting out of bed without projecting the
feet, one so commonly committed by women
without thought of the consequences, may
be traced many an attack of cellulitis,
brought on by the sudden though momentary
exposure of the feet to cold. 1t has caused
more diseases to women previously healthy
than could result from any other single act
of imprudence.
APPLES AS MEDICINE
Chemically, the apple is composed of vege-
table fibre, albumen, sugar, gum, chlorophyll-
malic acid, gallic acid, lime and much water.
Enrtbu,ora tba Herman on olvsie COW fhat tho
spple contains large percentage of phospho.
rus than any other fruit or vegetable. This
phosphorus is admirably adapted for renew
ing the essential nervous matter, lethicin, OF
the brain and spinal chord. 1t is, perhaps,
for the same reason, rudely understood, that
old Scandinavian traditions represent the
apple as the food of the gods, who, when
they felt themselves to be growing feeble and
infrm, resorted to this fruit for renewing
their powers of mind and body. Also, the
acids of the apple are of signal use for men
of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish
in action; those acids serving to eliminate
tanned, would make the brain heavy and dull,
or would bring about jauDdice or skin erup-
lions and other allied troubles.
Some such an experience must have led to
our custom Of taking apple sauce with roast
pork, rich goose and like dishes. The malic
will neutralize any excess of chalky matter
engendered by eating too much meat. 1t Is
also the fact that such fresh fruits as the
apple, the pear and the plum, when taken
ripe and without sugar, diminish acidity in
the stomach rather than provoke 1t. Their
vegetable salts and juices are converted into
alkaline carbonates, which tend to counter
act acidity.
A good, ripe, raw apple is one of the east
est Of vegetable substances for the stomach
to deal with, the whole process of its diges-
ton being completed in eighty-fve minutes.
Gerard found that the 'pulpe of roasted
apples mixed in wine quart of faire water
and labored together until 1t comes to be as
apples and ale. which we call lambes-wool
never faileth in certain diseases OF the raines,
which myself hath often proved, and gained
thereby both crownes and credit" The
pairing of an apple, cut somewhat thick. and
the inside whereof is laid to hot, burning oil
running eyes at night, when the party goes
to bed, and is tied or bound to the same, dotE
help the trouble very speedily and contrary
to expectation, an excellent secret"
A poultice made OF rotten apples is Of very
common use in Lincolnshire for the cure Of
weak or rheumatic eyes. Likewise in the
Hotel des Invalides at Paris an apple poul
tice is used commonly for infiamed eyes, thu
apple being roasted, and its pulp applied
oyer the eyes without an intervening sub
stanes>-LOng ago it was said apples d.
easily and sDsedlly pass through the belly
tberefcre thew do mo,iislify the belly, and. TO
| the same reason, a modern maxim teaene
| that: To eat an apple going to Bed,
| doctor then will beg his bread.-Hospital
| London.
OUR SCHOOL GIRL.
The average school girl rises only in tim
to eat hurried breakfast and reach schoo
at 0. The girls under u, who are not tn
ones to break down, are not too dignifed t
romp at recess, and in that way they fill thei
lungs with fresh air every day. Those aboy
| II or 10 rarely have breath. of outside al
! from 8 till in the afternoon. They ca
| their luncheon cdrled up in heaps, in comfort
| able corners If they can find them. The
| take little exercise, except in few schools
where they dance for few minutes: A so
itary lunch of cold or warmed over" food o.
reaching home is followed usually by a.
hour or two Of study, instead of by bris
walk or other exercise. There Is more stud
after supper, ambitious girls studing late II
to the evening. Ifthere is any well-estabiisl
ed physiological fact, it Is that girls in thel
teens need an abundance Of rest. and SIC sIee
! before midnight, If possible. The teacher
ust give certain amount of home work I
their pupils in order to keed up to the grade
more is the pity; but since that is a neeesslt
the fathers and mothers at nome should max
every thing bend to that and health. Ther
is no one thing that is so necessary and ths
might be so easily secured, if firmness were .e'
ercised, as long nikht Of Sleep for the ta'
growing brain and the girlish frames ths
are rapidly assuming the proportions of mi
turity.-Christian Register.
| USE BOTH HANDS.
Teach the children to use both hand
They will find the knowledge useful in aftt
life. Writer'S cramps can be cured in n
way but by rest. If a man be copyis
clerk or a telegraph operator, sits down an
writes for eight, ten or twelve hours a day {
fast as he can, he must expect to suffer, III
less he is unusually strong. We have mu
cular bands and connections which are lab
l..al