Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16
SOME HOUSEHOLD HINTS

It your street gown shows signs of wear
at the bottom or has shortened, as some
wooden gowns will do, get some Hercules
braid and put band smoothly around the
foot of the gown, letting it come below the
material so as to lengthen the skirt. Hold
it a little full when putting 1t on, so that
it will not draw. It is quite fashionable,
and certainly is economical If you like,
you can lengthen the skirt with something
and set the braid over that, but the other
answers quite as well, and 1t Is less
trouble.
Never boil the water out of which you
make coffee or tea. I do not know the
hygiene of the suggestion, I only know TIE
fact that water boiled long before using
in that way makes fiat tasting drink
1t seems to take the life out of it.
If you have only the white glass lamps
and want to possess the pretty red ones or
blue, try this: Empty the oil from the
bowl and poke a square piece of red flannel
down in it. Smooth it up against the IL
side with your finger and the aid OF
stick till you have covered the whole in.
side. Trim off the points that stick out OF
the mouth pour the oil back and screw en-
the top The effect will be very pretty, and
you can have them any color you desire.
For a shade get some of the pretty crepe
paper to match the bowl and put 1t over
the white shade, tying with a ribbon End
bow at the top. Let the paper swing free
at the bottom and be little longer tnan
the shade.
Mothers of small men and women are
put to their wits ends to devise some
method Of teaching the children to pick up
and take care of their toys and small be-
longings. 1t is quite impossible to teach
children to take care of things unless they
have some place to put them. You know
you get careless and toss your clothes
about in disorder unles you have good
closets or their equivalent, and Children
are imperfect patterns of grown ups A
big fiat wicker hamper is one of the incest
IL ings for child'S toys, because 1t Is light
and can be dragged by two-year-old
II you have no closet, the floor OF which
and perhaps a shelf can be utilized for the
children's toys and other traps, get a ham,
per. If you cannot afford that, take
good-siZed pine box that will do for seat
under a window. for instance. Put rollers
or casters on it, put hinges on the top Ter
a lid, cushion and cover it and have IT
understood that when play is over into
that box every single plaything must so.
An authority that cannot be questioned
says that when sending cheese to the table
you should always hay it on fresh napkin.
For chamber windows long curtains OF
cream cheesecloth are pretty and mex
pensive. A wide hem along the front edge
and at the bottom is all that is necessary,
though, if you care to go to the expense.
narrow wash lace makes neat finish.
These curtains will last indefinitely, and
launder beautifully. 1t can be done at
home, and is so much less trouble than the
Nottingham lace curtains. which have to
be sent to the cleaners unless you have
infinite patience.
Don't try to keep white petticoats on
your little girl. Soft red flannel should
broider that crochet a silk or zephyr
edge on it and make it very pretty. If
second skirt Is necessary, get hne black
Saline and feather stitch it with two or
three rows of bright-colored wash silk.
You can have three rows each of a differ
ent shade, if you like.
There is nothing much more uncomfort-
able than the feeling that ones shoes are
tco large and yet shoes that seemed to
fit at first often stretch till they are I'M
comfortably large. To remedy this, cut
insoles from an old felt hat. Any old hat
the insoles just wide enough to cover the
sole of the shoe inside. They will fill up
the shoe just about enough, and often pro-
tect the stocking from wearing out on the
rough threads in the sole. They will pro-
tect your feet from dampness, too. Take
them out and air them each night. This
felt sole is better than those you buy. be-
cause not SO thick, and If aired will not
absorb unpleasant odors.
If your child has a habit of sleeping
with its mouth open, in order to breathe,
attend to the matter at once, before that
most loathsome of all diseases, chronic
catarrh, sets in. Any child that breathes
through it's mouth habitually certainly has
something the matter with its nasal or
CANS, and early treatment will probably
correct it, but it will take patience and
unwcaried application to accomplish 1t.
Steel that is badly rusted may be fairly
well cleaned by applying several coats of
hours and then rub and apply again.
Run a lighted match rapidly around the
top of a fountain pen which refuses to I'M
screw 1t will generally succumb at once.
To ward off an incipient cold in a child
give it a good, hot bath in a warm room.
Then rub the chest and throat with coal
oil, and heat it in. Over that put liberal
rubbing of vaseline. Then roll the child
up in a NICE warm flannel that will cover
it all over, and tuck it in bed. Generally
this will break up a cold that has just
started, and also symptoms OF Group. II
the hoarseness is of croupy nature, a
half teaspoonful of vaseline given inward
ly is not bad.
A quiet way of teaching a child to be
observant is a little game called Il see."
You can play 1t and yet attend to your
sewing or any other work that does not
REQUIRE the use of anything but your fin
gers Say to the child that you see
Something in the room. A chair, for In