Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-01-24
Household Hints.

Hot dry flannel, applied as hot as
possible, is good for neuralgia.
When not in use the umbrella
should be left loose, uncontined 10y
elastic or silken band.
Broken limbs should be placed in
natural position and the patient kept
quiet until the surgeon arrives.
Rancid lard is improved by trying
it over with little water in the ket-
tie, adding slices of raw potatoes.
1t is said that the juice OF lemon
squeezed into a cup Of coffee will at
ford immediate relief in neuralgia
headache
Do not blow the food to cool it for
children the breath is often impure
and will make the food injurious to
the child.
The light, soft wooden goods Worn
by gentlemen in the summer make
pretty skirts for little girls as well as
for the little boys.
Hemorrhages of the lungs or stoln-
ach are promptly checked by small
doses of salt. The patient should be
kept as quiet as possible.
When white candles appear on the
table, shades OF any other color may
be used, but when colored candles are
chosen the shades are usually of the
same hue.
1t has been decided that shifting
bingham makes the best kitchen
aprons as it is durable and not easy TO
tear. 1t is very wide : one breadth is
enough for the ordinary apron.
Cloth jackets or listers may be
cleaned OF grease by covering the
spot with French chalk, placing a
piece of blotting paper over 1t, and
then pressing with a hot iron. Ruo
with dry flannel and brush well.
Wood, grasses, flowers, moss, etc,
are stained by laying the object to be
colored in solutions, or painting them
over, or pressing the coloring ma tier
into them. The colors mostly are ma
genta, methyl violet, malachite green,
and analine blue.
To make a gargle for sore mouth
and throat, take four large spoonfuls
of good cider vinegar, four Of water
a teaspooful of common salt, and a
very small portion of red or black
pepper; gargle every hour. 1t Is
worth more than all the chlorate OF
potash in the country and it cannot
harm you.
Rain-water and soda will take out
machine grease. To remove oil and
yarnish from silk try benzine, ether
and soap very cautiously. To take
out paint mix equal parts OF ammonia
and turpentine. Saturate the spot
two or three times, then wash out III
soapsuds. Paint can sometimes be
rubbed out of wooden goods after 1t
has dried.
TicEs Magazine recommends coffee
grounds as manure. A lady OF San
Francisco lately received some plants
from Mexico and with the plants came
the advice to fertilize them with waste
coffee. and coffee grounds. This was
done. and results were so satisfactory
that the same treatment was tried on
roses. and the effect was a healthy
and vigorous growth, and more ana
better flowers and of richer colorS
The following is recommended as
cure for sleeplessness Wet hall
towel apply it to the back of the
neck, pressing it upwards toward the
base of the brain and fasten the dry
half of the towel over so as to prevent
the too rapid eXalation. The elect
is prompt and charming, cooling to
the brain and inducing calmer, sweet
err sleep than any narcotic. Warm
water may be used, though most peo-
pie prefer cold. To those who suffer
from over excitement of the brain
whether the result of brain work or
pressing anxiety, this simple remedy
has proved an especial boon.