Evening star., 1896-07-18
n 0 U S OLD HINT S

| members of your family and they insist
on eating hot bread, give them toast. Nice
crisp, brown toast Brown bread makes de-
nclous toast. Corn bread split in thin
| slices and toasted brown and buttered be-
lore serving Is also wholesome.
10 fll up the cracks in floor which you
| are preparing to stain for rug covering,
| cut or tear papers-old newspapers-into
| tlny Dltf and soak them in cold water
| twenty-four hours. Take the paper pulp
ard squeeze it dry and force into the
cracks. Let 1t lie for twelve hours or more
oefore touching the floor again, and it will
nave hardened into cement-like toughness.
Then you can stain it, and it will be as
handsome as hardwood floor
very handsome rugs are made by cut
ting old ingram carpets In strips an inch
or more wide. Pull out half a dozen
threads on each side of each strip. then
Sc" the strips and wind as for rag car
Pet. Have the carpet weaver set the chain
very close and beat the filling well. The
rug comes out all woolly and wears unend-
ingly. You can make q beautiful fringe
Tor the ends of the rug-which may be as
lons as you lke-out of the ravelings,
which you can catch through the ends with
crochet hook. The chain NAV be Of a
different color from the filling If a bizzare
effect is desired.
Be particularly careful of the sinks and
drainage pipes about the house at this seo
soh of the year. The torrid condition of
the weather brings decay to vegetation
and meats very rapidly, and there is dis
ease IN every germ which may finally cuI-
inmate in typhoid and malarial fever In
Sist on having the drains rinsed two or
three times week with quantities of boil
Ing lye water, then drench with hot cop
perdS water.
One of the very happiest lessons to learn
early in life is that ignorance is expensive
Ignorance OF anything; not of books alone
but OF all the commonest things of life
one cannot afford to be ignorant in these
days. The home!y saying that "all is grist
that comes to the miIl' holds good in the
acquiring OF knowledge. Never let any
tn1ng slip by you until you understand It,
You don't know how soon you may want to
use it.
The minute your child begins to talk
correct its infection and modulation, and
keep up the corrections until the child
recognizes for itself it's SHORTCOMINGS and
Corrects itself.
Complexion specialists row Law the grea1-
est stress on clearing the blood and cor
recting impaired digestion before begin
Ilng ON the skin. One of the greatest falla-
cles in the world is rubbing the face with
oils and other skin foods in expectation
of correcting its yellow eruptions wher
the seat of the trouble lies in late hours
irregular eating. rich food and tormented
liver. No complexion specialist in the
tantrums.
Instead of finging your pretty new waist
into the wash tub when 1t gets soled at
reck and wrists and no place else, try this:
have a nice clean cloth on the ironing
board, then get cup Of clear cold water
and clean white cloth. Wiring the cloth
out of the cold water and rub the soiled
spots gently but vigorously. Rub and rub
till the soled spots disappear. Then with
moderately hot iron, then with a very
hot one, iron the damp spots dry This
usually works like a charm Don't get the
cloth too wet, though.
Milk becomes tainted and impure in a
few hours in hot weather, and 1t will sure
ly make your teething baby Ill If fed to
1t. Boil the milk soon IS you get it and
put In air-tight perfectly sweet bottles
No cook can manufacture a dainty meal
In dirty kitchen. Insist upon it that
your kitchen maid keep her floors clean
and her tins and pots and kettles sweet and
shining: You may be sure that her cook
Ing will improve when she has mastered
the art of keeping her kitchen neat Give
her plenty of tools to work with.
1t is said that tight gloves bring wrinkles
on the face. They certainly bring wr.n-
k1es on the hands. No matter how plump
and white your hands are, tight gloves
and tight corsets-will make them red and
needn't try to get around 1t. An easy
httirg glove, an easy-fitting shoe and a
well-made, neatly adjusted corset will in
sure peace Of mind past comprehen-
slouchy woman into a very presentable
one.
Sometimes a dust-begrimed straw hat
can be cleaned very nicely with an old
toothbrush and plenty of gasoline, but the
straw will be yellowed in the process.
That Is not a bad fault, as yellowish straw
Is quite in vogue, but if you want to
"hiten straw, mix two cents worth of
common sulphur with the juice of lemons
to thick cream, spread the mixture over
the hat and hang in the sun for a few
hours. Remove with a stiff clean brush
or broom all the sulphur and the straw
will be as white as If new.
Excepting an unwashed body, nothing
can be much more offensive to refined
soured hair. 1t isn't easy to overcome
this, but by washing the hair at least once
In two weeks In very warm weather and a
sun bath once or twice a week the hair can
and good soap Is the best shampoo LET
the hair down for half an hour each night
before retiring and comb it out. Shake
ana ran 1t TIL 1t is dry; then brush and
Draid for the night. 1t takes little time
but you gain in comfort.
lon of boiling suds will whiten the linen
wonderfully. Always exercise the utmost
care in the use Of the infiammable stuff
where there Is fire.
If the little ones are feverish and de-
mand drinks" Of water in unlimited sun
ply pound Ice to a mush and give them
a spoonful when the call for water comes
It is far more cooling and much less hurt
full.
bit OF slate with pencil attached
oy string, or some neat slips of paper
with lead pencil similarly attached, hung
on the kitchen wall near the work table
will save a housekeeper's heels. Jot
Gown on them the things needed from
town, the little odds and ends that are to
be done during the day. and that so easily
slip your mind when you have not time
to do them, as soon as they suggest them
selves to your mind.
When boiling tough meat put into the pot
tablespoonful or two of pure cider vine-
gar. 1t will usually render 1t lender and