The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-19
Household Hints.

HALF a teaspoonful of sugar will re-
vive a dying fire, and, unlike the kero-
sene which housemaids are prone to
use, is absolutely safe.
A COUPLE of paper bags slipped over
your hands will prevent your backing
those useful members while you are
polishing the range. Try it and see.
A BIT of butter we'll rubbed over the
top of loaf of bread as it is taken
from the oven will give the crust that
dark, glossy brown surface that is 80
appetizing.
IF you will dip your broom in clean
hot-suds once a week, then shake it
until it is almost dry, then hang it up,
or stand it with the handle down, it
will last twice as long as it would with
out this operation.
For soft corns, dip a piece of linen
cloth in turpentine, and wrap it around
the toe on which the corn is situated,
every night and morning. 1t will
prove an immediate relief to the pain
or soreness, and the corn will disap-
pear in few days.
THE leaves of geraniums are an ex-
cellent application for cuts, where the
skin is rubbed off, and other wounds of
that kind. One or two leaves must be
bruised, and applied on linen to the
part, and the wound will become cica
tried in a very short time.
NERVOUS people should eat fat food
Every irritable and exhausted nerve
should, if possible, be coated with fat.
Fat is to tender nerve what an air
cushion is to a tired invalid; it eases
jolts wonderfully. With the fat should
be combined grain foods and vegetables
for strength, and fruits to keep up a
healthful consistency of the blood.
MANILA paper, such as grocers and
butchers use, is far too useful to be
thrown away. 1t will instantly absorb
all grease from fishcakes, fried potatoes,
ham or anything of the sort, and it is
but a minutes work 10 slip out the
paper and put it in the fire when the
dish is ready to serve. A piece laid
over your bread dough, under the cloth,
will prevent the formation of that hard
crust which is so annoying to bread
makers.
A HANDFUL of screw-eyes, assorted
sizes, are worth their weight in silver
for kitchen use. Try screwing one
into the end of the breadboard and the
ironing board, into brushes, brooms and
clothes stick. Put one at each end of
the kitchen wall; on ironing day stretch
stout cord between and see what a
convenient place you have to air your
clothes. When the wooden handle
comes out of your favorite saucepan lid
screw-eye screwed into a cork on the
inside makes an admirable substitute.
For housekeepers who luxuriate in
reciting their domestic troubles during
spring cleaning, here are a few sug
gestions. Tissue paper is the bes
thing for polishing glass or tinware
Egg-shels, crushed, and shaken ir
glass bottles half filed with water, will
clean them quickly. Cayenne pepper
blown into cracks will drive mice away
The juice of lemon in a glass of water
without sugar, will often cure a sicl
headache, FIRE quently the result and tn,
accompaniment of "spring cleaning
THESE wet spring days, when tn,
little ones are so restless, do you eve
try to amuse them by allowing them tt
cut pictures from newspapers, cata
logues, etc., or forms of animals from
any paper, then, giving them dish o
clean water, allow them to wet ant
press the pictures against the windows
board or any smooth surface? Wha
if they do get few drops of water o
scraps of paper scattered? They ar
clean and easy to wipe or sweep up
and the happy laughter and the tim
otherwise gained will more than pa
for the trouble.
AMONG the most wonderful discover
les of recent times is the effect of va
rious vegetable products possessing di
gestive properties of an active charac
ter. The digestive property of th
papaw has long been known and util
lied. More recently it has been ascer
tanned that the juice of the pineappl
contains very important digestiv
property, which is capable of digestin
albumen and allied substances, not onl
in acid but in nutritive alkali media
which gives to it the combined proper
ties of the gastric juice and the par
create juice. This excellent fruit ma
be found valuable aid to digestion
The coarse pulp is wholly indigestiblt
and only the juice should be swallowed
1t should be taken only at meal time.