St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-08-16
Emergency Hints.

get the sufferer into cold bath, iced, ii
possible, and keep ice on the head until
consciousness returns.
Hysterical persons are usually best
treated by no treatment. Let them
severely alone, and, like Bo Peeps sheep,
they II soon come home.
In heat exhaustion the skin is covered
with cold moisture. Use no cold APP
plications, but give fresh air, using fan,
II necessary, and administer small and
diluted doses OF brandy or whiskey.
In commissions of children, apply cold
to the head and heat to the body. A
warm mustard bath is excellent. Cam
phor may be held to the nostrils, and
sometimes chloroiorm is used with good
results.
Every family should have a clinical
thermometer, as in this climate no one
can tell where the next sunstroke will
fall, and the temperature OF the patient
must be carefully watched. When the
temperature is reduced to 100 degrees
Fahrenheit, cold water treatment may
be discontinued.
In cases of ordinary fainting, do not
become excited and breathless, but keep
cool, and the restorative process becomes
simple enough. Place the person fiat on
the back-hoor or bed will do equally
well-loosen clothing at the neck, sprinkle
mot drench) the face with cold water,
and open the windows. If these be not
quickly effective. hold weak ammonia or
smelling salts to the nose. Be careful
not to have the ammonia too strong, as
it is likely to injure the delicate men,
brane OF the nostrils.
For the Housewife.
In preparing carrots for cooking,
always scrape, never peel.
Cinders form a good material for COW
ering the floors and paths of the conser-
vatory.
If string beans are boiled in weak
stock, the dish will tempt many persons
who now decline it.
Examine the outdoor rose beds occa-
sionally to see that the wind has not
removed the covering.
During cold weather use alcohol to
wash windows. This. prevents the
windows from freezing, and gives them
a fine polish.
The plants stored for the winter in the
cellar have now been in some time. Per-
haps they need little water or other
attention.
Where plants are kept about the Win
dows, cold drafts from the sides of the
sash should be carefully guarded against
during severe weather.
Frequent cleansing of the leaves Of
foliage plants by using tepid water and
sponge lends to their attractlveness
and is essential to the health of the
plants.
In roasting beef, dredge with -four, salt
and pepper, then scar quickly in hot oven
or in suet on top OF stove, put in cool
oven and finish roasting, allowing ten
minutes to pound.
Silver that has been laid away and
thus become badly furnished can be
cleaned quickest if the first application of
the whiting is moistened with sweet oil
before application. Afterward dry whit
ing can be used as usual.
Two emergency suggestions are that
the loose top of lamp may be secured
by using plaster OF paris wet with water
and quickly applied, and that mustard
water is useful to clean the hands after
handling any odorous substance.
To clean old flower pots on which
green moss and sort of white mold has
grown, scrub them vigorously with sand
and water. This will make the pots
look bright and new. Use porous vessels
only to pot plants in. They will do
better in such than in tin. r
A DELICIOUS dressing for fruit salad is
made from the yolks of four eggs beaten
until thick, then adding gradually cup
full of siited powdered sugar and tea
spoonful of salt, still beating until the
sugar is dissolved. Add the juice nj two
lemons and beat again. Prepare the
fruit and place in layers in the salad
bowl, alternating the dressing with the
fruit.
The following is well-tested recipe
for the chocolate icing that is used on
cellars: Crate two ounces OF chocolate
and set over hot water until melted.
WHEN perfectly smooth, cook together
one cupful of granulated sugar and one
half of cupful OF water until it becomes
stringy. Pour this in fine stream over
the melted chocolate, stirring and beat
ing until the mixture begins to thicken.
Use Immediately.
Paris is inangurating new set of COL
ors, and judging from the titles given the
various shades considerable attention is
being given the question by experts. A
new shade of blue is known as Eau clair
de la lune." A deep cream is called
"Queen of the Meadow" as its shade is
exactly that of the wild flower of that
name. "Eventide" describes new gray,
and really the color is deep, mysterious
and misty. A shade Of pink is described
as poppy bud" as it gives one the idea
of the silvery sheen seen on the poppy
bud.
Paper pillows are not as much in evil
dence as they were year or two ago,
but it is known that there is steady
demand for them at hospitals, where
their use is often much appreciated. The
paper should not be cut into tiny squares
and so packed in a case, but rather into
strips about three inches long and about
a quarter of an inch wide. Then with a
dul-bladed knife each strip should be
curled as are ostrich feathers. case
stuffed with paper prepared in this way
makes a light and soft pillow, and is a
great improvement over one made by
the other method.
Chutney is an English or East India
relish much esteemed for bon vivants.
1t is an expensive thing to buy, but can