The Portland daily press., 1890-05-10
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HOUSEKEEPING NOTES

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The light in sleeping rooms should neye
fall directly on the eyes, nor should tn
rooms be either too dark or too light.
A small box filled.with lime and placed OF
shelf in thesEpantry or closet will Absorb
dampness and keep the air in the closet dr.
| and sweet.
Oilcloths will last longer if one or tw,
layers of wadded carpet lining are laid undel
them.
The mothers kitchen is the girls best
cooking school.
Paint splashes may be removed from win
dow panes by a very hot solution of soda
using a soft flannel.
An exchange tells how to pick out good
lobster: If you examine lobster that was
alive when thrown into the boiler YOU viii
find that the tail is curled up to the body
while one that was dead has the tail extend.
ed. Choose the former"
Widowed linen may be restored by soap
ing the spots, and while wet covering them
with powdered chalk.
Marks on tables caused by hot dishes may
De removed by Kerosene rubbed in we'll with
soft cloth, finishing with little cologne
water, rubbed dry with another cloth.
For IMPROVING toe nails use equal parts of
mutton tallow, CASTLE soap and white sugar
made into salve. Apply until the swelling
Is down, then trim the nail in the centre.
Mhen paper is to be removed from the
walls OF room, set boiler of hot water in
It, close the doors and windows tightly, and
the steam Will soon loosen the paper so that
IL can be taken off much more readily.
For stains on the hands nothing is better
than little salt, with enough lemon juice 10
molsten IL rubbed on the spots and then
washed off with clear water.
Too much cannot be said in favor of salads
OF every kind in the spring. They seem to
gestive powers after long diet of the heav-
Ter and more fatty winter foods. Piquant
green salads, like watercresses and the bitter
chlcory, or endlve and bleached dandelion,
are excellent in the spring.
A German test for watered milk consists
In dipping well polished knitting needle
into deep vessel Of milk and then immedi-
ately Withdrawing it in an upright manner.
Ii the milk is pure drop of the fluid will
hang on the needle, but the addition of even
small portion of water will prevent the adj
hesion of the drop.
should be rinsed from soapiness and shaken,
to open the cells freely, and well dried
Meat three times a day is more than aver
age down town dwelling human nature can
endure. Functional disturbances of the
liver, gall stones, renal calculi, diseases of
the kidneys, dyspepsia, headache, fits Of i'll
temper or OF the blues, irritability and gene
raj absence of the Joy of life are largely due
to an excess Of meat and other highly con-
centrated food. What shall we eat7 We re-
Ply eat more fruit.--Medlcal Classics. a.,
after long ironingl says an experienced
ironing with one side followed out like the
cutting boards which seamstresses use in
their laps, and chair that can be raised or
lowered at will to sit upon when ironing.
These. with the stove on one side and the
clothes frame on the other. would make that
dreadful ironing day one Of the easiest of the
week.
ABOUT SMALL BILLS.
1t is the most astonishing thing in the
whole matter Of everyday business indebt-
edness how slightly the small accounts weigh
on the conscience of some people. You
might suppose that the more humble and
poor the person is who sends in the little ac-
count while he waits at the door, OF while
she timidly stands at the top of the back
stairs, the more quickly would the indebted
and honest employer make haste to settle it.
Nothing Of the kind; there seems to be in
human nature an almost aversion to pay
seventy-five cents or to hand out dollar
and a.quarter for three scrimpy little bills.
The laundress, hoarsely answering you into
her shawl that the children are all down
with colds, but that she is pretty well herself,
is told to Just leave it until next week."
Leaving IL means, too often, nothing to
meet rent-day with. But what do you care
about thatP She must have fire, or how
could she do the ironing; and so you know
she Is not cold. Yet the delay in getting
even your trifie Of pay means scant meals
for week and the children, still with I'M
mended shoes, sent out to get milk or bread
or kindllng on credit in the next rain. The
breaking OF one miser's dam-f0r this trait
Of holding on to little sums is misery, it is
not prudence, or anything but misery dis
nonestly-the breaking of one chink in the
stored up funds would set countless rivulets
moving. The state of mind of those people
VINO pay their bills of fifty. or hundreds Of
collars quite promptly, and are satisfied so
to do, while they. keep on owing fifty or
seventy-hve cents in numerous other direc-
tions. is curious study.
There are great houses where the cobbler's
boy, or the, carpenters son, or the young
for calling SO often for that 62 cents. He is
treated by the parlor- maid or the waitress,
who take your tone to all dependents, as
though ne had come to steal an umbrella
Yet all the while you are stealing from him,
and the pleasure with which you hear the
retiring footsteps or the door slammed upon
the humble dun is the pleasure of a default
er, not to say of a border thief. There are
survivals of other qualities besides the fit
test, and this. strange disposition evidently
comes down from the days when every man
lifted" his neighbours cattle or sheep as he
got the chance; the more defenceiess the
owner the better fun. The exhileration of
having saved the small amount for that time
is ruffianly feeling in the gentlest breast,
and should be rooted out by prompt resolu-
tons to pay the debt.-Philadelphia Ledger.
RoCKERY.
This is an uneven mound, bank or slope
in which projecting stones, tree stumps or
like material are appropriately used to pro-
duce an ornamental effect, as well as to
afford happy home for the choicer gems
among hardy plants. Sometimes :rockery
is.a regular. feature in Landscape gardening
in which case 1t is constructed in bold style
and furnished with dwarf shrubs like
mezereon and Azaler amena. spreading
bushes like the small-leayed cotoneaster
woody vines as the naked Towering jasmine
bunchy evergreens like the yucca, and a hos
of hardy perennials that Green between q,
spread over the recks as do periwinkle. moss
pink. stonecr0p, creeping erysimum monev
wort, creeping veronicas, and the like n
these are added, for diversity In appearance
and brightness sake, some snowy Towering
plants as columbines, hepaticas. snrins
abonis. dwarf lilies, narcissi OF sorts ninL
phloxes of the stellaria and diyarieata f tvnes
dwarf irises, evergreen candytuft. and man,
Dubious plants. And around the base fern,
in variety, hardy orchids, Soloman's sea
and the like may be freely used. 90"
In the amateurs garden. however ,
rockery also serves dearer purnnse II /
meant as a home for every little plant tha
is delicate or rare, the plants one wishes +,
take particular care of, and those w6icb ! !
left in the open borders, might Get over =
GRO ded and destroyed by t6riftier neieh
bors. A family shaded spot is the hest a.
a rockery, because in it a place NAV he hs,
for the plants that need sunshine as wei
as for those that perfer shade. Against m,
| north. northeast or east side of a bniIdinS i
| a capital place for rockery, for even nIant
| that love shade dislike drip from trees /,
making rockery, if the good of the Diant
| is the primary object, don't make higl
rockery and have it so Constructed tha
surface water from rain or melted snow s Im'I
drain away freely and quickly from ON a I
the plants.
HINTS FOR EVERYBODY,
Here are some things from the "Famil,
Doctor" which are worth remembering:
1t is said that salt should be eaten will