The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-27
on the plant when it is full blown. 1t ex-
'hausts the plant very much.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Comforts of a Loose feet oil
Various Soaps on the Skin.
Scald rhubarb for a few moments be.
needed.
A chimney with ground glass edge at
the top is less likely to break as the
ground glass edge allows more room for
expansion.
strips of cotton cloth, an inch wide, wet
and placed around pies will keep. the
the oven.
How to iron napkins: Iron perfectly dry
before folding; iron only on one side, to
preserve the polish, aud with the sewage,
to bring out the pattern.
A lump of sugar saturated with vine
gar will cure hiccoughs.
To polish nickel plating when it be-
comes dull, use jewelers. rouge and fresh
lard, or lard oil. applied to a piec. OF
chamois skin. Rub the parts using as
little of the mixture as possible, and wipe
off with II clean, Slightly oiled rag. or
some cotton waste. 10 many cases, per-
baps In most. no preparation Is needed to
clean or polish nickel, a simple rubbing
with chamois skin or very soft cotton be-
ing all that Is required.
Devlled Sardines-Cut some neat fingers
OF bread, and fry them a golden brown,
drain them we'll, and sprinkle rather
thickly with grated cheese and cayenne.
Heat the sardines by putting them
In the oven well covered with oil,
and busted with cayenne, black pep
per and a little salt. When thoroughly
hot. place q sardine on each finger of
toast, add a squeeze of lemon juice to
each, with a dust of. pepper, and serve
very hot.
In working letters and monographs on
ait n or fa hla ~ I,nA li-a,1 fho ln,% ,o,,11t1
are obtained by using u hand frame.
Without it even a skilful worker may
draw or pucker the background. The
letters must be neatly outlined with fine
French embroidery cotton. and then pad
ded to produce a raised effect. This pad
ding should be thickesJ through the
centre of the letters, and kept on top by
taking up tiny stitches at intervals on the
surface of the work.
There isn't any way of Judging of the
value OF q toilet soap except by trial, be-
cause the value OF a soap, no matter how
loudly the advertisements may cry its
merits, lies In its adaptability to the skin
OF the person using it-thatis to yourself.
And toilet soaps are like friends-purely a
matter of personal idiosyncracy. Either
they agree with your skin, or they do not.
If they do they will leave it clean ant
white, and soft and fresh. 1t they don't
they will either roughen it into minute
points ike sand paper. or dry it, making
it feel withered and old, Or redden it, or
make 1t smart as ii with sunburn. All
these latter things may happen, and yet
the soap need not be a wicked soap at all.
1t may be as pure and as extensively son.
cocted as it is advertised to be, and yet it
MAJ do your hands a positive injury. 1
Know one woman whose hands are dried
by one of the most famous and expensive
French soaps; one that is known to all the
world as perfectly pure and even of an
unusually healing ana sofGening power.
And yet the white o that she buys at
her grocerIS for five cents q cake keeps
her hands as smooth and soft as velvet.
Soaps that contain much g1ycerihe do not
agree with some skins; soaps that contain
an excess of oils do not agree with Others.
1t Is like tastes; there Is no accounting
for 1t.
A warm bedside wrapper ana soft Slip
pers, which may be easily slipped on,
should be a part of the outfit of every
woman and child. Many a severe cold,
which may even have come to a fatal
termination. may be traced to the foolish
habit which some people have formed of
getting up In the morning and going
about the room before dressing with I'M
clothed feet. A mother o is compelled
to see to her child at night should always
have such a warm wrapper and kuitted
shoes conveniently at hand. In cases of
illness such a wrapper and slippers are
Invaluable. The invalid has not strength
to bear The weight of a heavier shoe than
u light toilet slipper OF wool, or to enuure
a closer dress that a soft wooden wrapper
that is warm and light. Such wrappers
aud shoes are also especially valuable as
q hath drpla