The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-25
HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES.

dishes will remove them.
Use short handled paintbrush to
wash the outside of window sills.
For bee sting, make paste of earth
and water. Cover the stung place
with it, bind it on and it will soon
give relief.
If a shirt bosom or any other article
has been scorched in ironing, lay it
where the bright sunshine will fall di-
rectly on it.
When a felon first begins to appear,
cut off the end of lemon, put the fin
ger in it and keep it there as long as it
can be borne.
For a sore throat, try frequent gar
gle of salt and water. If little is
swallowed it will allay the irritation,
cleanse the throat and do no harm.
For stains on the hands nothing is
better than salt moistened with lemon
juice. Rub the spots well with the
mixture then wash off i'll clean water.
To clean the tea or coffee pot fill it
with water and put in piece Of hard
soap Set it on the stove ard let it
boil an hour. 1t will be as bright as
new.
| 1t is said that a good remedy for
strengthening and clearing the voice,
juice of lemon and sweeten it well
with sugar and use as needed
To cure round shoulders sleep per
fectly horizontal, that is without any
bolster or pillow. The habit can easily
be acquired of sleeping thus, and the
round shoulders will soon be straight
ened.
To make clothes wash easy: Mix one
tablespoonful of kerosene oil with one
pint of soft soap aud soap all the white
clothes; put them to soak over night,
and you will have very little rubbing
to do.
For a cough, boil an ounce of whole
fax-seed in a pint of water, strain and
add little honey, the juice of two
lemons and an ounce of rock candy.
Stir together and boil few minutes.
Drink hot.
To take out mildew: Mix soft soap
with powdered starch, half as much
salt, and the juice of one lemon; lay it
on the part, ON both sides, with brush;
let it lie on the grass day and night
till the stain comes out.
For burns, make paste of baking
soda and enough water to cause it to
adhere. Cover with cloth and speedy
relief will be felt. If the skin is
broken apply the white of an egg or
liquid cuticle to the surface.
Salt is an excellent tooth powder.
1t keeps the teeth very white and the
gums hard and rosy. Salt mixed in
the proportion of two teaspoonfuls in a
teacupful of tepid water is an emetic
easily obtained. This is an antidote
for nitrate of silver poisoning.
When ring round appears make a
I've from wood ashes by putting tea
cupful in a basin of water ON the stove
-e s,.,l heating ittonear the boiling point.
Plunge the affected part into it and
keep it there as long as it can be borne.
Repeat it few times if necessary.
The English Magazine" gives the fol.
lowing simple remedy for rheumatism
which it is claimed is successful. One
quart of milk quite hot into which is
stirred an ounce of alum; this makes
whey and curds. Battle the affected
parts in the whey until too cold.
Meantime keep the curds hot and apply
them as a poultice wrap i'll flannel and
go to sleep. Three applications should
be perfect cure even i'll aggravated
cases.
If those who suffer with tired aching
feet could know the relief to be OBJ
tanned from the use of cushions placed
in front of the table where they stan6
when washing dishes, ironing, prepar
ing vegetables, etc, they would lose NJ
time i'll providing themselves with one
or more of these solid comforts. They
may be made of several thicknesses o.
old cloth, bagging, carpeting or horst
blanket, stitched together and covered
with old carpet. The edges should bt
turned in and overhanded, and tn,
whole tackled like a comfortable. TIVE
loops to hang it up by, complete THU
kitchen comfort.
Many women who do much sewing
frequently suffer great deal from sore
ness of the mouth without knowing TIL,
cause. This is said on good authorit,
to be caused by biting of thread. in
stead of cutting it with the scissors. Ii
using silk thread the danger is greatl,
increased, as it is often soaked in ace
tate of lead, both to harden it and in
crease its weight When this habit o
biting threads become confirmed ant
much silk thread is used, the conse
quences are sometimes very serious
even leading to blood poisoning.
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