The Forrest City times., 1891-04-10
Hints for the Home.

Strawberry cream, honey paste and cucumber butter form part of the list of new greases for keeping the face and hands smooth.
 A cup of mashed potato mixed with a teaspoonful of sugar at night will tighten the batter in the morning and the expensive egg will not be missed. The torturous hinge can be rendered noiseless by the use of a black lead pencil of the softest number, the point rubbed into all crevices of the hinge.
 A bright little housewife is reported by the Philadelphia Record as having caught eight mice on sticky fly paper placed over night on the kitchen floor.
 In England celery is much used as a last course at dinner dipped in grated cheese-~that is, the cheese Is passed with it and the celery dipped as it is eaten.
 Don't neglect to have your name plainly painted on all jugs or bottles that arc sent to the store for vinegar, molasses, etc. Then you will be sure to get your own back again.
 Brown some flour and make gravy of boiled milk, with salt and sugar, and it will often cure bowel complaint either with children or adults, If no other food is eaten for day or two.
 An excellent way of testing tea ia to put a teaspoonful in q glass of water and shake it thoroughly. If the tef is puro the water will be clear amber tint but if adulterated, strongly sos- | ored.
 Three persons who ate food cooked 1 in a new tin pan were attacked with severe cramps and vomiting-due to lead poisoning from which only prompt medical attendance saved their 1 lives.
 It is stated that glyccrine washed 1 into flannel after it is wrung from the warm rinsing water will render it most agreeably soft. Half spoonful of glycerine to pound of dry flannel is the usual allowance.
 A fresh egg will sink in water be- cause of the water in it. It will lie on its side also rather than endwise. Should the yolk be plainly distinguish able upon being held up to a strong light the egg is good.
 lncalculable harm Is done to both the health of a child and to tho in- i tegrity of a second set of teeth in al- lowing the temporary teeth to become decayed and abcessed, causing pain and suffering and frequently indigestion and all its accumulated evils. When children have taken cold there is nothing better to give them than molasscs, butter and vinegar; to half cup of molasses take a teaspoonful ci butter and two teaspoonfuls of vinegar; cook few minutes and give u little frequently. Quite young children can take this.
 To fumigate room after contagious disease: Put sulphur (brimstone) in tin pan, set it on brick in & tub 1 having little water in the bottom, set it on fire and hasten from the room, having all cracks tightly stuffed, oven the key hole. After six hours open and air the room.
 Coffee and tea pots become discolcr.ed on the interior in a very short time To prevent this about every two week. put into thom a teaspoonful of soda enc fill them two-thirds full of water; lc boil two hours. Wash and rinse wei before using. In this way they will a, ways be sweet and clean.
 Husk mats are the best boot wiper. in muddy weather. There is some one in most neighborhoods qualified to in struct in their making. It Is nics business to do in rainy time; tn, husks are damp and pliable then. 4 person can make a dozen a day ant sell the surplus in the village for 2. cents each.
 The real Boston baked beans served for its Sunday morning break lasts are cooked thus. They are soaked during Friday night in cold water. Or Saturday morning the water is changet and then gently parboiled for two hours then rinsed and put in an earthen poi with good sized piece of pork with g lean streak in it, then slowly baked through the day and left in the over through the night having plenty o water in the pot during the process o