Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-04

Would pale before that pearl OF light
o matchless PEARL IL IL wore mine,
So happy all my DAYS would be,
My heart would throb with bliss divine,
And angel eyes would envy me
Samuel Minturn Peck
"RocISs i Have Struck On"
Side by side with the perennial mys-
teries as TO where the pins go, and
what becomes of all the bright
children, my curiosity ranges the
source of the irresponsible and too
often unprincipled little paragraphs
which 60 the rounds of the household
papers from pillar to post, unsigned in
the first place, uncredited in the sec
ond, and many times unblessed in the
last Did any woman originally prove
them? Did any woman, indeed,
originally write them? Or are they
perhaps the moments mischief of the
printers devil, to whose fro.icsome
mood we owe the insidious suggestion
that - is good for -, and the con-
sequent ruin of favorite article of
apparel, the upsetting of n carefully
prepared menu, or the detrime5t for
days of our cherished compilations?
Experience reminds me to say in
justice that typographical error will
impart to most authentic and re-
spectacle recipe a sinister meaning,
which will cause derision in the soul
of the old housekeeper and anguish in
that of the tyro. In the transition
from one eminently reliable magazine
TO another one of these little para
graphs made the surprising statement
that "a delicate dish for an invalid
was made by stewing twelve shanks
of mutton in one quart OF water, etc"
Surely the invalid who could attack
such robust repast could not be
EVER much decrepitated," as the
Spanish physician put it, But, origii
nally, harmless or not, they appear;
we experiment, eXecrate, but do not
expose. Again and again we write on
"Points That Have Helped Me-" but
never on Rocks 1 Have Struck On"
and it remains for deponent to unfold
the books of experience for the bone
fit of the unwary.
"Salt as dentifrice is to s1m-
mended, as whitening and hardening
the teeth, preserving the gums, etc"
This delusive recommendation / have
seen in circulation for, 10! these many
years. Any dentist will tell you bet
ter, but, alas! you, nor 1, nor any other
fond, foolish woman is likely to ask
him until after having tried it and
discovered for herself that Is not only
loosens the teeth but makes the gums
bleed and is exceedingly painful at
the time of application. Try it by all
means if you are one of those rare
stoics who don't suffer with the dem
tist" and can mount the dreaded chair
with the serenity of lone who wraps
the drapery of his couch about him
and lies down to pleasant dreans;" If
not, take warning.
Indian meal is an excellent cleans
or for greasy pots and pans; use as
you would ashes or sand, scour well,
etc" The 'etc." probably stands foi
the plumbers bill, for there is nc
more enduring cement with which to
stop up sink and drain pipes than that
produced by the combination of In
dian meal end soapsuds. The cleans
ing part of the bond is duly fulfilled
must acknowledge; the mythica
writer merely neglected to give the
other story, for which she had illus
trious precedent The same thing
may be said of the oft-encounterec
advice to add little kerosene to the
water when you scrub your stained
Aoor." 1t undoubtedly adds, more o.
less perceptibly, to the shade and pol
ish of the grain, but-your hands
The floor is eleansed, but-especially
II roughened by homework, an i'm
probable odor of bouquet de kerosen
clings round those members for-well
varying periods, but always longe
than you like.
The idea of a griddle greaser wit
no smoke, no smell, mo nothin'." L
is not in the feminine heart to resist
so when slice of turnip was recon
mended as a means to this blissfu
end, it was tried in the House of Man,
Experiments Verdictr-the cake
were always heavy. The greas
which makes the smoke and smel
also helps the cakes to fry light an
sweet, and would seem an indis
pensable evil.
OF household delusions there is n
end. but of space there is, SO but on
bubble more remains to be pricked-
that of vaseline, as IL polishes
softens and preserves. A womal
whose shoes have peculiar grayish
greasy tinge you can set down as
victim OF the advice TO abandon pre-
pared dressings and use vaseline, as
polishes, softens and preserves tn
leather" The polish is transitory
the preservation extends TO ever