The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-21
Household Hints.

The best busters are those made or
yard-wide cheese cloth cut square and
neatly hemmed
Alcoves. and arecesses for beds are
abominable. They cannot be prop
erly ventilated to keep the mattresses
and bedding sweet. ,..... :. ..s..
A new way to serve grape fruit is to
remove all the edible part from the
skin, placing it in deep dessert plates
with liberal allowance of pulveriZed
sugar. t5EMa5 sehsa+ a.sI
Except by definite instruction from q
skillful physician a sick person should
never be awakened to take medicine,
for under nearly every circumstance
sleep is the first and best of nOurishes-
and restoratives. It is natures own.
medicine.
Here is nice strawberry sauce that
can be used with any pudding: BEAT:
to a cream one-half cup of sweet but
ter and two cups of powdered sugar;
add a heaped half pint of strawberries.
Mash the fruit thoroughly and beat it
into the sauce" AZ
Brooms are bent out of shape by be-
ing allowed to rest on the floor instead J.
of being hung up. Dipping them once
or twice a week in a kettle of boiling.
suds is the careful housekeeper's:
method of making them Inst twice asi
long as they otherwise would.
This is said to be an effectual yermip
exterminator: Dissolve two pounds Cf
alum in three or four quarts of boiling
water and apply, while hot, to every
joint or crevice where ants and cock
reaches congregate. It is useful for
pantry shelves and bedsteads, for
y Sff1,av I'D hoe - tt
brush in applying it.
Shades for the interior of the house
should not be selected until the color
OF the interior decorations and the sur
roundings have been fully considered.
CLEARING colors like light blues ana
green's are apt to be as disagreeable in
side as outside. Plain white awnings
are found to look better, after the
second year than faded striped ones.
Paint, however old and dry it may
be, can be removed from carpets or
draperies by a liberal use of chloro-
form. Saturate the spot, keep it close
ly covered for half an hour and then
brush out. The liquid destroys the oil
in the paint, leaving only q powder
that usually comes out, with no stain
unless on very delicate fabrics. In
obstinate cases, the application may
need to be repeated several times.
Notes.
Mrs. Marks, aged almost 80 years,
was baptised in the sea, near Rosl-
land, Ne, on Sunday.
The average weight Of 1000 men
and women weighed at Boston wns.
men, al L. pounds; women, 1o4 H.
The late Edmund Yates was of Sc
mite descent by one Of his parents at
least. his mother-a fact his biograph-
ers have not pointed out.
OF a colony Of thirty six women who. i
made the run in the Cherokee Strip
when it was opened, twenty-five have
proved steadfast They build their
own houses and do all their own farm
work
Londons new beauty Lady Moyra
Bleauclerk, is described as an exdr!-
sitely pretty blonde girl, with an inno-
cent expression and beautiful eyes.
who laughed openly at the peculiarly
expressed admiral ton she ELECTED.
Nine Marchesi, the famous teacher
OF vocal music in Paris, is German by
birth. Marchesi is her title rather than
3 her name. She married the Marchese
di Castrone, and is the mother Of ten
children. She teaches from in the
morning until Z in the evening.