The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-20
In The Realms Of
The Home Hngel
Suggestions Along the Line of Econ
Omy for the Household.
AIDS FOR THE BETTER HALF
Topics for the Kitchen, Recipes for the
Cuisine and General Information
for the Benefit of the Keeper of
Every True Mans Happiness.

A rational solution of the annual "sick
time" is to be found, thinks the Inde-
pendent, in the conditions likely to pre-
vail in house that has been "closed
up" or left in the care of servants. The
trouble has been wittily named Cellar
tits, and can easily arise from the damp,
dark cavity beneath the house, called
the cellar, which may have been tightly
closed for three or four months, or,
what is nearly as bad, has been left to
the unintelligent carelessness of serv-
ant or caretaker. Everybody knows
that the most deadly enemies of bac-
teria of all sorts are light and air; but
the cellar in question has every aper-
ture through which thief could get a
glimpse tightly shut, and all man
ner of creeping things, and those that
fly on invisible wings, have had just
the conditions in which they multiply
with incredible rapidity. They can pass
through apertures many times smaller
than an ordinary pinhole. and the
searching furnace heat has produced
many in the best built mansions" and
what havoc it has wrought in the con-
-builtmade-to-sel houses we
Will not attempt to say. The house
above this bacteria-breeding cavity has
also been tightly closed; all possible
light and air, of course, shut out, SO
that any malarial microbes that have
originated in the cellar have been
caught and corraled on the spot. In
stead Of the country's having harmed
him, the best protection the householder
has against their onset is the revivified
blood and the additional stock of health
or ha ha hu
his rural sojourn; any member of the
family who is in any respect below par
in physique is the ready-made subject
of these inimical microbes. AS to the
condition of cellars that servants
have had unsupervised access to-
this page would blush sickly,
moldy, malarious green were they TO
be described Does the mistress of the
house go down into this virtual cave
and look after the cleansing? Not at
all. She takes it for granted that it is
all right: her husband carefully in
spected it when he rented the house,
and when the owner had had it put in
spick and span rentable order, and
never again does its condition cross the
mind of the mistress of the mansion.
These remarks are intended to apply to
premises that We're in genuinely good
condition when the house was bought
or rented. 1t is in the summer season
that malarial elements are generated,
and many a lady lies quaking with
chills or burning fever in the midst of
luxurious cushions, blaming the malarial
country, while the real source of her
woes is below her velvet carpet. OF
course the remedy lies in thorough
and protracted airing" of the apart
ments above the cellar before they are
again occupied, and not only Il thorough
cleaning and airing and searching for
hidden nuisances in the cellar but the
walls should be treated to a complete
coat of good lime whitewash. Country
housewives have long been familiar
with its cleansing virtues; but now
that the patient German scientists have
demonstrated that no other available
agent kills so many kinds of microbes
so quickly, people can use it with re-
doubled vim, sustained and sOothed"
by this scientific endorsement 1t is
cheap, and to be had everywhere. Let
us call the autumn sufferings, from
supposed country malaria, by the eX-
pressive name Cellaritis; and to your
cellars, O city housewives. Air them,
| search them for hidden nuisances,
cleanse them, apply the microbe de-
stroying whitewash and live happier
ever afterl
TT IS IMPORTANT:
That the bed clothes should be exposed
to the direct rays of the sun every day
that it is possible. 1t gives them a
"sweetening" that Is promotive of health,
| quiet rest, and sound sleep.
To scald pudding bags and jelly cloths
! Immediately after using. TO dry and air
them thoroughly, or they will retain an
odor that Will render them unfit for use.
To temper lamp chmneys before they
are used, If we would prevent them from
/ cracking. Put the Chlmneys into Il ket-
tie of cold water and gradually heat it
until it ,bols, ana then as gradually let 1t
| cool
To dip brooms for n minute In a kettle
| of boiling Suds every week or two. 1t will
make them tough and pliabe and they
will last much longer; and the carpets
Will not be worn half so much by sweep
| ing with Il broom cared for in this man
| ner
To place small particles of camphor
gum With your new Silverware, TO prevent
that the silver is never washed In soap
/ suds, as this will give ii the white appear
anCe so very undesirable.
To remember that the fiat end of a cork
/ is the very handleSt thing one can use Tor
securing knives and forks. Dampen the
cork slightly, dip it in the powdered bath
! brick or fine coal ashes, and the securing
will be so quickly accomplished that you
will never return to the old method of
using Il cloth.
TO know how to brighten gold or silver
! jewelry if tarnished. one of the easiest
and most successful methods is to brush
/ II thoroughly with an old tooth brush wet
with soapsuds, and then place it in saw
| dust to dry. This Is especially desirable
| for cleaning gold chains with small links.
/ The brstles of the tooth brush Will reach
every part, and the sawdust viii quickly
dry the inner links that could not be
reached with a cloth
TO remove tar, wheel-grease, etc, from
wash goods before placing in the suds, and
soap should not be rubbed first, on any
stain, as 1t will tend to set IT, To remove
the tar or grease from white goods rub
with oil of turpentine and soap, alternat-
Ing with streams of water. For colored
cotton and woolen goods rub lard thor
oughly into the spot, and let 1t lie until
the tar seems loosened then treat alter.
nately with oil of turpentlne, soap and
water Silks may treated carefully in the
same manner, using ben2ine insted of oil
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