The herald., 1896-02-09
TIE HOUSEHOLD

In warm rooms, where the air is dry,
the red spider will do great injury.
The remedy for this pest is water. II
you see the foliage turning yellow and
falling off, and you can see no aphides,
you can be quite sure that the red spi-
der is at work. Examine the lower
side of the leaves and you will find
little webs and tiny specks that it
hardly seems possible can be living Or
ganisms, but closer examination with
a glass will soon convince you that they
have great deal Of vitality about
them. To rout them, after they have
become we'll established on your
plants, first give them bath in water
heated to a temperature OF 120 degrees
Fahrenheit. Dip the plants in until
all portions of the top are submerged
and allow them to remain covered
for about a minute. Then re-
move them, and wait for five
or six minutes, and give another dip.
Repeat this operation several times
in succession and you will be pretty
sure to have clean plant for the time
being. To keep it clean after that,
shower it daily, or, what is better, be-
cause it insures more thorough WORK,
dip it in tub of tepid water every
morning If you keep your plants
moist the red spider will not trouble
them. But it is difficult matter to
secure and maintain the necessary de-
gree of moisture in the living room;
therefore, employ all possible means
of imparting moisture to the air. Keep
water constantly evaporating on stove
or register. Cover the plant table
with sand or moss, which can easily be
kept wet. This will give off moisture
by steady evaporation. A little rub
ber sprinkler is in the mark ct which
plants for use whenever you are at
work among them during the day.
The habit of these roses must be I'M
derstood in order to grow them we'll.
They send up strong shoots from the
base of the plant and new branches
from the old ones, and this new growth
bears their flowers. When the flowers
fade. cut back the branch bearing
them to strong bud. This will cause
a new branch to develop at that point,
and this, in its turn, will bear crop OF
flowers. 1t is quite necessary that
there should be continued cutting
back if you would have new strong
growth, and on such growth depends
SUCCESS. And another important item
is, keep the soil rich. Give fertilizers
at least twice month after towering
begins. Fine bonemeal mixed into the
soil suits the rose as we'll as any
man11re have ever tried on it.
Those who know tell us that weak
ness of the eyes is increasing in Amer
ica to an alarming extent. They say
also that much Of it could eprevented
by little caretaking applied to the
all-important eyes. or course these
organs are by far too delicate in con-
struction for amateur experiments to
be safe, once the eyes are really in a
bad way. If anything abnormal is
noticed or sharp pain experienced in
any part of the eye a good oculist
should be consulted at once.
But any one and everyone is
thoroughly able to care for his or her
eyes, to see that they have the proper
rest, the proper light, and to see that
they are not dangerously strained.
Reading in the cars or in any moving
vehicle is one of the worst things in
this connection which can be done,
and unfortunately, one of those habits
most frequently noticed. In carload
of people travelling for even half an
hour Just how many will be without
some species of reading matter? The
swsying and lurching OF cars and
trans make even the best prints swim
and daI CO so before the vision that the