Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-23
SOME HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If you would keep the love and affection
Of your children, never let them feel that
they are either burden tax upon you.
You know how it CRATES upon you to feel
that you are dependent upon somebody,
and you ought to bedable to see that the
sensitive nature OFFS a, child will be easily
hurt by the often used expression that 1t is
little torment" Oh that it adds to your
burden Of work. II was a pitiful but de-
served rebuke that a little child gave its
parent when theyt stood beside the tiny
coffin Of the baby: Mamma, God thought
there was too manyof we, didn't he?" That
mother, at least, never again said to her
children that they were little torments. The
children reared in home like that get
away just as soon as possible.
what shall do for frosted feet?' is
question that many sufferers ask. In the
first place, don't get them frosted. Tight
shoes, insufficient bathing and inattention
to wearing clean hose will often make the
feet chill. Battle the feet every night of
the world. You ought to do that anyhow.
Change the stockings several times a week,
airing for day at a time, if you can't al
ford many changes. Wear loose shoes,
and you will find that you won't suffer so
much with cold feet After they are frosted
you will have to suffer more or less for
years. Sometimes, when the itching and
burning is unbearable, a red-hot bath in
salt and water, followed by brisk rubbing
in alcohol, will relieve. One person who
was a great sufferer for years found cure
in coal oil. Wash and soak the feet in
the salt water till the flesh is red and ten
der; then have basin large enough to put
your feet ina wide-bottomed tin pan Is
best-and rest the feet in that, pouring
over them pint of the coal oil. Rub one
foot with the other, and soak them for fiji
teen minutes or more Then lift them from
the pan, and let the oil left them soak
in for a few moments. Feet once frosted
are much tenderer than before, and you
must have care about exposing yourself
to the cold. There are frosted feet that
nothing will help. Cold but true.
Do you want to frame some photographs?
A deft- handed young girl made some after
this plan the other day and they were
pretty. Cut heavy cardboard in the shape
that you desire, panels, square, heart
shaped. or oval. Cut openings in the
ter sufficient to display the picture and
here you may exercise your fancy also.
Then cover the cardboard with silk, leav-
ing enough to lap under on both edges,
which glue or fasten with needle and
thread. Fasten the picture over the open
ing and put a back of pasteboard, which
cover with pretty colored paper. Water
color paper may be substituted for the
silk with good effect, and both silk and
paper Will be pretter for spray Of flow
ers painted on the border across the
ctnner If you don't paint, then put a
IL
bon.
You often hear people inveigh against
home made" furniture and brio a-brac.
Just set 1t down that such persons are
selfish, and born kickers. Nobody likes
home made things better than they do the
artistic creations of disciplined hands. but
the many can not have the beautiful and
costly things. Must they then sit down
and fret their souls out in bare dreariness?
If one can't have a couch with BaSdad
covering, the next best thing is a box with
a straw mattress and cretonne covered
cushions. Ii silver half dollar is not
to be spared for a velvet foot-rest. a low
box covered with cotton and cretonne or
crazy patchwork will shield the feet from
the cold floor well. Smyrna rugs are
high priced well handsome, and a
rug knitted out of fine wool scraps and
striped with silk rawlings makes a pretty
substitute we'll as employing hands
that have no other work perhaps. When
can't have gas we substitute coal Oil
candles. They may rot answer fully,
but they are a sight better than no light
at all. SO ii Is with the homemade things.
The woman who can make her home bright
and comfortable with OrtriVanceS of her
own manufacture comes a good deal near
err being a help meet for her husband
than the woman who demands store
made things and gets them on the in
stallmert plan, living with her nose to the
grindstone till they are Paid for.
If you hate "mussy' things for your
children to play with, get some carpenter
to cut inch piece of dressed hardwood
into various lengths for you, having say
half a dozen pieces of each length. and the
Ions est pieces two feet long. Have a bas-
ket for the child to keep the pieces in and
show him how to build rail fences, block
houses and corn cribs. Even store of
nice clean corncobs is boon to a busy
child.
To brighten your leather furniture wash
it with good soap and soft water, and dry
in the sun. Then rub with a flannel cloth
wet with kerosene. and let it stand in the
sunbright air for while to dry and eVap-
crate Unless the leather is almost a hope
less case this VIII renew it.
good tonic for the hair IS salt water.
Put a teaspoonful of salt in half pint OF
water, and rub a little on the scalp every
day with a small soft cloth The effect
at the end of month will please you.
If your cafe chairs are sagging in the
seat turn them upside down and wash
them with strong soap suds. Soak them
thoroughly then set them to dry. The
cane will stilfcn up to its normal condl-
ton.
To clean old black silk. rip the breadths
if possible and sponge them In water. In
which an old kid glove has been boiled. If
the silk is very much soiled. rub the spots
we'll with ammonia water first. Then with
a soft black cloth apply good wetting and
rupnili4 OF the other, ana hang the silk
smoothly from a line or lay it on a news
parer on the floor each piece by itself. and
let it dry that way. Then take broom
handle and roll piece after piece around
that tight and smooth till all is on, wrap
a paper around 1t and lay it away till you
want to make the silk up Never touch
silk with q hot iron. for that takes all the
life out of it. Don't even press the seams
open.
To make mustard plaster for child,
take one teaspoonful of ground mustard
and three of flour. with enough water TO
make q good stiff paste. Spread between
two cloths For adult use one part
mustard to two of flour. Mixed with the
white of an egg it will not raise a blister
Written for The Evening Star.
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