The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-12-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Observe Them From the Beginning
of the New Year.

III you have to look after your
children yourself, don't let them
sit up late, as a general rule, on any
terms. You need and ought TO have
some time to yourself for rest aud
recreation; and it will be bad for the
children as we'll as for yourself il
you do not get it. The import ant
thing is to get your thoughts direct.
ed into fresh channels, or in time
you will find it difficult to think or
talk of anything except the house
and the children.
OF you have no children don't
bother about this hint" or get
children.)
The theory OF two meals day is
all right, and so is the practice, as
experience has proven. Omit the
breakfast. One cannot do hard work,
mentally or physically, with full
stomach.
(There are those who "omit" three
meals day, and who do hard work
on account of an empty stomsch.)
The proper vegetables to serve
with turkey are rice croquettes, boil
ed rice with cream sauce, or stewed
celery. III white potatoes have been
served with previous course, baked
sweet potatoes or sweet potato Gro.
quettes may be used.
(If you cannot afford the turkey
be satisfied with the vegetables.
They don't cost so much.)
Many people complain that they
cannot drink milk without suffering
from indigestion. Probably this is
because they take it too quickly or
at the wrong time. 1t should be
remembered that milk is food and
not beverage, and therefore should
not be taken with meat meal. Only
very robust digestion could cope
with meat and milk simultaneously,
though everybody can take glass
of milk with benefit at the right
time.
Another reason why many people ex-
perience difficulty 10 digesting milk
is that they swallow it too quickly.
Very shortly after entering the
stomach milk is converted into curd,
and If glass OF milk be swallowed
at one gulp. the result is that the
mass becomes an almost solid lump
of curd, very difficult indeed to
digest. If, however, the milk be
taken in little sips, the curd is form
ed in small pieces, and trouble is
avoided.
There lie, perhaps, no better "pick-
me-up" than cup of hot milk, and
it is one which may be safely in
dulged in. 1t is specially useful to
some people on going to bed, for it
enables them to sleep, when without
it they probably would lie awake for
hours. Those people who cannot
take milk comfortably after noting
the above hints will find they can
do so il they add to it little lime
water; a teaspoonful to tumbler
will be about right.
Con this "hint" we have no sug-
gestion to offer. We have only
met milk diluted with something
stronger.)
The simplest and also cheapest
way to cool room which is oppres.
sively hot is to wet cloth of any
size-the larger the better-and sus-
pend it in the place you wish to
cool.
Let the room be we'll ventilated,
and the temperature will sink as
much as l2deg. in an hour. This
suggestion may be carried out suc-
cessfully for those who are compell-
ed to lie in bed with a broken limb,
and who are apt to feel overpowered
by the heat.
If you have no cloth to wet, ask
your landlady to come in with her
billiard the temperature will be
verv chilly indeed.)
Flowers, in the summer especially,
should be watered before sunrise or
after sunset.
Cry it, and the man from the
water works will be around in
double quick time.)
To CLEAN Cur aLAss.-First scrub
well with warm water and soap.
Rinse in clear water, and then brush
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