Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-18
The Philosophy Of Housekeeping
Plainly Stated.
A GOOD WAY TO PREPARE SOAP FAT
The Proportion Of Cotton and
Wool in a Fabric.
CLEANING GILT FRAMES

written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
l saw a floating item the ether day that
| every mother ought to keep beside her TO
read when the restless questioning little
ones have worn her patience threadbare.
| 1t said: Every question asked by a child $
mind is reaching out toward the soul Of
things, and every question rightly answered,
and every law understood stimulates the
growth Of the child's mind toward the world
| around it."
Watch your children and do not let them
| sit or stand in constrained position. An
erect carriage is one of the greatest beauties
| OF a human being, and the time to acquire il
Is In youth before the fault becomes a set
tled one. IL Is folly to wait TN a child is
ten or dozen years old. and then begin
pecking and Tuning because il has acquired
bad habits of standing and walking. IL you
| had been attending to your business proper
| ly 1t would Lever have needed the correc-
| ten.
| Gilt frames may be cleaned by simply
| washing with a small sponge wet with hot
spirits of wine or oil of turpentine. not too
wet. but sufficiently to take on the dirt and
hymarks. They should not afterward be
wiped, but should be left to dry OF them
| selves.
The Berlin Medical Society recommends
the following compound for purifying the
atmosphere Of the sick room: ',OfI of rose
mary, lavender and thyme, in the propor-
uons OF ten, two and a half and two and
half parts, respectively, are mixed with
water and nitric acid in the proportion of
IL - 10 one ana half. The bottle should
oe shaker. before using, and a sponge satur-
ated IN the compound and left to diffuse by
esaporauon. This compound Is said 70
possess extraordinary properties In contr,I-
ing doors and effiuvia
TX Is stated that consumption is mos,
nabie TO pass fiom father to daughter :, "a
rom mother to son. Life insurance COM
Pal les are guided by this rule ara AZ no
Ients who are rearing q family of children
khow OF any consumptive traits in either
slde ana would watch their children they
,ignt DE able to nip such direful disease
rubber jewelry and brooches, hairpins
and such articles as have faaed can be- re-
. seu 20 tneir pristine black by rubbing
them with paste ma1e Of iottcnstone
ard sweet oil.
II your netghbor is not iovable. you need
NOT !ove MIN, but you can do him good ALI
the fame, should you find an opportunity.
cotton and wool are So mixed together in
laDrics pretending TO b. eli wosl that pur-
chasers should be on their guard. a good
test IL to separate the warp and wool and
hold them IN the flame. The pure wool he
comes shapeless ash and 81 extinguis he'd
directly IL is removed from Tn. flame CT,
ton or linen thread, however blrns after
removal from the flame. and it's form is
piaInly distingnishable In the ash. Thread
nnde OF mixture Of wool and cotton burns
ireguihrly. III You are not quite sure OF
the quality of the fabric, take a sample OF
It home and test H.
~. l..lf
their own SOAP for kitchen use viii nnd a
gieatly TO their advantage TO prepare the
Tat that Is 10 be 40 used In the following
mar ner: No matter how small the quantity
OF tallow and suet, IL can be clarified and
made mt for use. Even IL the grease In the
ran seems burned, you can use II. As soon
as you take the pan from the stove, after
lifting the meat out, whether IL is boiled
baked or fried, pour a quart or more boil
ing water into the pan and set Il on the
hot stove to boil up. Then set IL where IL
Will COOL AMI whCn the fat has hardened
on the top of the water you can lift the
cake right of. Sometimes there Will be
bits of the meat and fragments of the veg
etables clingfng to It, Put II into another
pan, and put more hot water on IL and let
1T boil up: then cool as before 1t will gen.
orally come out clear the last time. Put II
away in a stone jar or tin bucket In a cool
place till you have colleC ted enough. Some
careful housewives never buy an ounce of
kitchen soap. but make IL all IL has an
other advantage In that IL is perfectly
pure. and most of the soap that one buys
is not. By using borsx and a little per-
frnery You can make an excellent toilet
soap.
IL you have an old muslin dress that is
perfectly good. but faded, boil IL In a strong
sal soda water. and then put on the grass
and keep IL dampened for a few days. II
will bleach out white and be nice as
ever. Calicoes lawns and mulls can all he
bleached this way.
II simply detest housekeeping, and !
don't intend to wear my life out baking
and broiling." That was the remarkable
utterance Of a few months old wife, who
has recently married a clerk In one Of the
departments on a salary of $1,000 a year
Anybody with half a mind can easily pic
ture the probable outcome Of that mar
rage, unless the man is saint, and he
ISN'T No man who would marry such a
foolish woman could have sense enough to
be a saint. 1t is disgusting to hear a mar
ried woman say that household duties are
distasteful to her. They may be uninterest-
ing, for most of the necessary occupations
of life bore us, unless We take an abiding
interest in them: accordingly, as We do
this, they become bearable, even IL they
are not agreeable and when such tasks
are duties from which we cannot escape.
and which we are bound to perform, IL Is
surely the part of wisdom to try to render
them as little distasteful as possible. In
der most circumstances and at the best of
times housekeeping is disagreeable &C.
cupation, but as II is impossible for one In
moderate circumstances to evade II, the
best plan is to exact from It every atom
of interest, which IL T.: capable Of Yielding
1t Is surely quite possible for any woman
Of average Intelligence to become. after a
few months of experience. a perfectly capa-
bic housekeeper, even liz she Is rot a born
one. And IL she fails to do SO, II is safe to
wager that her home is not well kept and
her husband is uncomfortable In II, IL not
unhappy. A woman has no right to con-
slider only herself In the matter. She must re-
member that the comfort of the whole
house depends upon her cheerful perform
ance of her domestic duties. IL the man
OF the house does his duty in the necessary
wherewithai to supply the needs of the
household. her duty and pleasure should
be to add by every means In her power TO
the comfort OF all beneath her roof wo-
man who has not made up her mind 70
endure all the trials Of a housewife and 20
accept all the duties that the tile wife
render obligatory upon her is a fool to
marry at all, and the man who Is 30 unfor-
tonate as to get her Is to be Pitied.
To- Teach your boy TO be Courteous ma
oblging. Teach him by precept and ex-
ample, and point out TO him the courteous
ness OF other boys. and show him how
much such actions are admired Work upon
his pride. IL you can reach him I'm no other
way. Teach him to be honorable I'm ali his
dealings with others. Never permit him 20
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