The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-13
The Golden Rule.
Practical Application
(For the News and Observer.)

MchFnleIlSlu HUNS
The Ring of the true metal.
To the Editor: When you have good
thing pass it on to your nelghbOr. Or,
as in this instance, to his wife! House
keeping fell to my lot very early i'll life
and i have often had to evolve for my
self way out of difficulty.
Some of the ways turned out to be
what others had evolved before me-
Some l think will prove to be new
way out of an old difficulty for people
who have never Thought of that partlcu-
lar method.
If any housekeeper finds the following
experience of service to her L shall De
glad to share with her other bits of in
formation equally useful.
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION.
Not long ago / heard of a calamity thar
befel very nice housekeeper, ana uhat
was what set me to thinking that wnen
one has discovered a method, and prac-
ticed it satisfactorily; it should be passed
on to others.
The housekeeper in question. like the
old woman in the shoe. had SO many
children that she put up preserves Tor
them in large stone jars! Over the jars
she tied thick folds of cloth and paper
But the rats, which are very bad in her
pantry: gnawed the coverings off and
held high carnival in the preserves
One had eaten so much or gotten so
helplessly entangled in a jar he had in
yaded that he could not get out again
and there he died!
The same kind of disaster overlook a
jar of pickles! And still the housekeeper
was a helpless victim. The remedy is
simple. A plate about the size of the
jar or little larger!
Put over the jar piece of cloth, on
this set the plate. Over it tie down close
~ double thickness of cloth, and pa
per. The contents will then be perfectly
safe. Tin plates will do to cover preserve
jars. but not pickles as they will rust.
The plates help to exclude the air, a
very necessary thing for both pickles and
preserves.
ANOTHER EVIL AND ITS REMEDY
/ allude to one of the plaques of warm
weather. the horrible green fly: People
who have refrigerators, or ice boxes, are
not the prey of these creatures. But
those who are not so fortunate-and they
are the great majority-are confronted in
summer with the tery grave question
of how they are to protect fresh meat,
cooked and unlocked.
never saw a safe, or a tin bucket,
no matter how closely the latters top
fit. that was proof against flies. | never
saw anything that effectually baffied
them, and thoroughly protected the meat,
save a strong, well made bag!
They cannot penetrate that, and 1T is
therefore impossible for them to harm
the contents.
Lay the meat, raw or cooked, on n
large dish, put over it a dish cover-or
another dish if you have no coverslip the
dish of meat into bag tie up the mouth
of it tight, and set the dish in q cool
place. Protected thus it is perfectly safe
and comes out of the bag, as it went in;
sans reproche!
/ think this bit of information will
save many woman's hair from turning
gray. That is il she has the proper OBJ
lection to flies If she has not / am
sorry for the people she keeps house for
if they have!
A word more, the bag must be well
sewed up with a not too large stitch
on the machine, for green flies are only
kept out by not being able TO get in!
Many cold fowl, many piece of
nice mutton or beef, has been lost be-
cause the housewife did not know how
to defend it from its inevitable enc
mics. Let her in future arm herself
with clean, whole bags, and use them:
and .hol'i instantly will vanish the
crosses, and losses, inflicted by this
odious insect.
/ should peremptorily refuse to keep
house in warm weather if / was robbed
of my treasured bagsi
A SAFETY PIN. INDEED,
Who has not had the disheartening
experience of having a gathering thread
slip off of the pin on which it had been
fastened, and the nicely stocked gath
ers escape, and lose all of their elegance
of appearance!
Many of US! And we know what an
Inconvenience it is, especially when the
material is fine, and every gather has
TO be kept in place. or mar the beauty
of the work. / have suffered many things
at the hands of gathers, or pins. for
they were the primary cause of the
troltblei
At last, however, in my righteous in
dignation over the gathers of some mis-
sionary work that | was doing-which
OF course had been released from the
pin! | suddenly thought of a way out
of tie difficulty for all time, and thai
way is a safety pin.
They are made in all sizes. and yot
can get small slender ones, suitable fol
fine work, therefore one need never Dt
at the mercy of gathers any more!
You wrap the thead around the pin
just as you do on the other pin, am
then fasten the catch, and the gathers
are safe until you are ready TO RELEASE
them.
or course with gathers that one is go
ing to sew at once, the safety pin neet
not be used, but for gathered work, Oh
- rnines. that must be put by for future
sewing on it ayerts all disasters, and j
the greatest convenience.
JEANNE.