Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-08-22
HOUSEHOLD AFrAms
A HousExEErrR's pos'rs.


A HoUsEKEEPER's DoN'rs.
Don't allow the broom to stand on In
, brush end when not in use; hang it on q
nail by means of ring in the top of the
handle.
Don't forget that broom will last
much longer, if, after using, it is dipped
in boiling water for few minutes.
Don't fill the best windows in the
family living-room with plants.
Don't neglect to air the house thorough.
ly every morning. Open opposite doors
and windows for FIVE or ten minutes.
even If it is stormy.
| Don't undertake extra work to give
pleasure when you know that you have
neither time nor strength forit, and that,
as a result, some one will be sure to be
oyertired and cross.
Don't forget, if you are tall woman,
to have your workable and ironing
board few inches higher than they are
usually made. This little precaution will
prevent many backache.
Don't neglect to have your name
plainly painted on all jugs or bottles that
are sent to the store for vinegar, molasses,
etc. Then you will be sure to get back
your own.
Don't think when you sit down to rest
that 1t is necessary to pick up that un.
nnished mending. Ten minutes abso-
lutte rest is worth much to the tired
muscles.
Don't allow soiled clothes to remain in
the bedrooms. They taint the air and
make it impure.
Don't keep for company the best
room, the best dishes, and especially the
pleasantest smile and most entertaining
conversation.-American Agriculturist.
THE RAvAGEs OF THE BUFFALo-BUe.
1t is found that few of the usual nre.
ventives are of any use against the at.
tacks of this beetle, and for this reason
it is difficult pest to eradicate. In some
places it has proved so destructive that
carpets have to be dispensed with, and
IN their place rugs are used, as being
more conveniently examined.
Iallow or tallowed paper placed around
the edges of the carpet, which are often
the parts first attacked, is said to be eff.
fectual. In many cases the carpets are
cut, as If with scissors, following the
line of the seams in the floor, and as n
remedy for this it has been recommended
that the seams be filled during the win
ter with cotton saturated with benzine.
Kerosene, naphtha or gasoline are often
slve to the beetle as well as benzine. but
benzine is perhaps the simplest and safest
preventive in use. Ie can be poured
from a tin can having very small spout,
1t being necessary to use but little.
Before tacking down carpet it should
be thoroughly examined, and if possible
steamed. If in spite of precautions a
carpet is found infested, wet cloth can
te spread down along the edges, and
hot iron passed over it, the steam thus
generated not only killing the beetles
and larvae, but destroying any eggs that
may have been laid. Clothing is some
times attacked as well as objects of
natural history--such as stuffed birds and
1t was believed that the beetle must
Iced on some plant, for in number of
cases it was captured out of doors, and it
was finally discovered feeding on the
pollen of the flowers of spireas, the bee.
tie living on the plant for while and
then returning to the house to lay its
eggs. When this was proved, it was
that spirnas should be planted
around houses infested by the beetle; by
doing this the plants could be often ex-
smined and the beetles destroyed.-Pap-
1lar Science Monthly