Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-27
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

DIRTY glass bottles may be cleaned
with crushed egg shells.
Small pieces of ice taken in the mouth
will often allay vomiting and qucnch
thirst.
When suffering from overstrained aud
tired eyes, batho them in hot water soy.
eyol times DAY.
For slight cut, bind on q piece of
Common brown wrapping paper, such as
butchers use fir wrapping meats.
When one runs nail or wire in the
flesh, hold the wound over burning sugar
rs coon as possible and it will prevent
soreness.
Soak the feet and bind on baking
soda dampenod. and in the morning you
will be surprised to find the soreness oil
out of corns.
Tho best way to shrink wool goods Is
to wiring sheet out in cold water spread
the cloth on it and roll them together.
This will prevent any shrinkage of tho
dress.
II one mashes finger or toe nail, bore
q small hole close to the root of tho nail
with n penknife, Immediately aftor it is
hurt, and the throbbing will be checked
at once.
Plush furniture should never be
switched in cleaning room, but use q
bristle brush. A small paint brush is de-
sirable and is also great help in busting
shutters, crevices, etc.
A good remedy for sore mouth is one
teaspoonful each Of powdered borax and
alum, onehalf teaspoonful of soda and
teacupful of sage tee. Mix we'll and
rinse the mouth frequently.
When tired of lemon and vanilla
flavoring try mixing them. To tea
spoonful of lemon extract add about a
third of teaspoonful of vanilla aud you
will think you have discovered new
flavor
To seed raisins let them lie in boiling
water two or three minutes, then pour on
cold water; the seeds will then push out
easily. When cutting raisins keep q
bowl of water in which to free the knife
from the seeds.
Valuable furniture may be disinfected
by exposure to fresh air for at least a
month. Carpets, curtains and furniture
a-c best removed from the sickroom at
the outbreak of disease, only such of
them being retained as can be easily dis
infected.
When boiling mutton don't forget to
make some good Scotch broth from the
rich broth remaining in the kettle after
taking the mutton out. Or if you boil,
or roast the mutton down, remove some
of the broth while the mutton is cook
ing.
A magic preparation for keeping frizzes
''ln" is found in mixing equal parts of
giycerine and rose water, and amounting
tho hair freely with it before curling; or
an equally good mixture is made of per-
fumed olive oil with bceswax dissolved
therein.
If ink is spilled on the carpet, throw
quantity of salt on it, which will
quickly absorb the ink; take this up, and
put on more salt. Keep repeating this,
rubbing it we'll into the inkspot, until
the ink is all taken up by the salt, then
brush the salt out of the carpet.
An excellent and inexpensive prepa-
ration for cleaning soiled gloves and
other delicate articles is the following
mixture: One quart of deodorized ben
zine, one dram of sulphuric ether, one
dram of chloroform, two drains of alco.
hol and enough cologne to make it
pleasant.
A sick person should never under any
circumstances be awakened from sleep
without the sanction Of the physician.
Once awakened after a short nap, a
patient can rarely fall asleep again !;
while, mad he slept nsfew hours before
being aroused, he might have fallen
asleep again in few minutes with little
effort.
All articles of clothing should be
changed as frequently as possible.
Especially should wet garments be re-
placed by dry ones as soon as oppor-
tunity offers. Gases of arsenical poison
ing have occasionally been observed as o
result of weaving goods in whose color
ing matter arsenic is found. Green colors
are most suspicious in this connection.