St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-03
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WELL WORTH. KNOWING.

PROTECTION FROM MosoUToEs. - MANY
women who take pleasure in working in their
gardens at this season of the year are de-
TERED from doing SO by the plague of mos
quitoes. These insect pests are not confined
to the vicinity of swamps or stagnant water,
as is generally supposed, but are found in
elevated positions and start from the grass
like so much dust. Defenses innumerabIe,
in the shape of thick gloves, netting and
veils, have been resorted to, but without eff
feet A lady, who does not live in New Jer-
sey, but who nevertheless suffers from mos
quitoes, writes that she has found an anti
dote This remedy may not work in all
cases, but it isr certainly. well worth trying.
Before going to work in the garden, by means
of a whitewssh brush shesprinkles kerosene
along the garden fences. This is the work of
but a few moments, but in every case where
she has tried lit the MOSQUITOES have van
ished, and wheneverfslYei neglects the kero-
sene they appear to come back in increasing
numbers. The-od Of Kerosene is not very
pleasant. yet even thed most fastidious will
prefer it to the bites of swarming mosqui-
toes, I SKI as ,9a1g9i Jsr
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AS TO HAMMccKs.-Nery few people know
how to swing them, Z and 7as the time for their
outdoor use has come, hint on this subject
may be of use AS an authority informs US,
the head should be about six and a half
feet from the ground, and the foot end
about three and three quarters feet, a curve
which secures to the occupant the greatest
possible ease of position: The foot-rope
should be about three times as long as the
lower part of the body freedom in swinging,
while the head remains comparatively sta
tionary. The ropes with metal catches are
to be preferred, and can be bought cheap at
any hardware store. Where trees are used
to support the rope bearings, the branches
should be well protected by heavy canvas or
cloth, as the lfrfctiohi is apt to wear off the
bark and so work injury to the tree. White
hammocks, made IF bleached cord. can be
trimmed with -rriu1ffies. Of webbing, which are
cheap and effective, Wherever it is possible
to use it, the hammock in summer should
take the place Of the sofa or lounge This
can be done ON galleries or wide piazzas. In
deed, in the winter season hammocks can be
hung in an invalid's room, and are preferred
by physicians to easy chairs or even to a
bed, where the patient can stand slight moy-
ing.
FLOWER SALEs.-1t is now generally known,
at least in New York city, that the flower
sales are held in the early morning. in Union
Square, near Fourth avenue. This new en-
terprse has given an impetus to early rising.
AS most of the girls, men and women who
sell flowers are foreigners, it is not difficult
to imagine ones self on the Champs Elysee in
Paris, or in the flower gardens by the Spree
in Berlin. A speciality is made of ported
plants, and these are sold at such low price
that the poorest people can indulge in what
to them is luxury. The result of this flow
er market has been to make women of the
upper classes better acquainted with flowers
OF which they knew little or nothing before,
and it has added to the window gardens now
SO common and so very pretty in the cheaper
kind of fats and even in the tenement
houses.
It is said by one who has tried it, that a
small lump of sugar added to turnips when
boiling will correct the bitterness which
sometimes spoils that excellent vegetable. If
the turnips are to be served mashed, it will
greatly improve them to force them into a
coiander. @fh $50 i@
Do you know that powdered so&pstone and
salt, in equal proportions, saturated with
water, but not so as to make it a liquid, is
one of the best fireproef materials that can
be had? tits especially valuable for mend
ing the Innings of stoves, is very cheap, and
can be applied by any person Of ordinary in
telligence. If your fife-bricks are broken or
out Of order, apply this substance at once
and so save your stove and add to your own