The Portland daily press., 1895-01-07
THE HOME.
The Use of Hot Water.


thoroughly soaked for half an hour at a
time, night and morning, in very hot
water, writes A. Marcy, M. D., in a very
valuable list of Domestic Household
Remedies" in the January Ladies' Home
Journal. Any one suffering from
severe sprain will not require more than
the first soaking to convince them OF the
advantage of hot over cold water. A
flannel bandage should be applied firmly
after each treatment. For bruises very
much the same method should be fol-
lowed, although the application need not
be continued for SO long time. For
wounds and sores the best method ia to
styes and infiamed eyel;ds, and even for
sore eyes, use water as hot as can be
borne, by sopping. 10 stop bleeding,
very hot water applied to the raw sur
face will be found efficacious. For many
forms of dyspepsia and biliousness,
particularly catarrhal condition Of
stomach, goblet of hot water. drunk
after the nights fasting, will give relief.
For continued application in the form of
poultice, as in catarrh of the breast,
peurisy, pneumonia. etc., jacket OF
cotton batting wrung out in very hot
water by means of towel, and covered
with oiled silk or waxed paper, should
be used.
Hanging Pictures.
By hanging pictures low you increase
the apparent height of a room.
Colored pictures should not be hung in
hall ways or on staircases unless there
is plenty of light for them. In such
places, strong photographs. engravines
and drawings in black and white go
best.
A picture should not be hung from one
nail: the diagonal lines formed by the
cord have very discordant effect. Two
nails and two vertical cords, or, what is
far more safe, pieces of wire cordage,
should be used instead of the single cord.a
Picture cord should be as near the
color of the wall upon which they are
put as possible, SO that they may be
but little seen. When one picture is
hung beneath another the bottom one
should be hung from the one above, and
not from the top; we thus avoid multi
plying the cords, which is always SO OBJ
jectionable. @
A good hue for walls where prints or
photographs are to he hung is a rich yell
low brown or a leather color. Lustre to
the black of the print or the tone of the
photograph is thus impaired.
The wall paper should have no strong
ly-defined pattern, and spould be
of one uniform color, such as red in
clining to crimson or tea green.
The centre of the picture as rule,
should not be much above the level of
the eye.-Art Amateur. s4..-4
An Imitation Smyrna.
One Of the handsomest floors thataI
have ever seen, writes a correspondent
in An exchange, was painted chocolate
brown with a large rug or drugget in
the centre. The drugget was made OF
scraps of cloth of all colors cut bias and
gathered through the centre, using very
coarse thread and tapping the edges of
the strips instead Of sewing them to-
eether. They were kept just loose enough
on the thread to twist up like aa,chenille
cord, Of course it took great many
of these strings, but one was always kept
in the work basket and 9aftersa garment
was made and the larger pieces put
away, those that were too small Il to be
used in any other way were gathere d
on.
After the strings were finished they
were tied together, rolled into balls, and
sent to a weaver, who furnished the
chain. and wove it like rag carpet.
Three widths were sewed together for
the drugget. Small rugs are made. in
the same way. The centre may be
made hit or miss with a plain border,
or any dark color used for the center,
with border of contrasting colors.
This does not resemble rag carpet in the
least, but is good imitation. of the
SMYRNA rugs Fine knit goods, the tops
of worn out stockings, too
much for other use work up
nicely in this way. If the material
is faded, as it is likely to be, it may be
dyed any color desired with diamond
dye, and beautiful rugs made of it. So
if you cannot afford the new carpet you
had set your heart upon, the floor may
be made presentable at the expense only
of patience and good TASTE
To Remove Stains.
Table linen should be carefully looked
over before washing AS soap sets stains
For fruit stains put small teaspoonful
of tartaric acid or salts of lemon in a
tablespoonful of water. Stir until dis
solved. Wet the satin with it, and lay
the linen ID the sun for an hour. Rinse
out with cold water. If the stain is
not removed with the first trial. repeat
and lay it IN the sun again. Most fruit
stains if taken in season can be easily
removed from linen by putting the
stained portion over bowl and pouring
q stream of boiling hot water through it,.
But when they are obstinate, acids have
to be used. For iron rust lemon juice
thickened with equal quantities of salt,