The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-23
THE N0NPAREJL MAN

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How to Make the Home Happy lone
Talks" Written Exclusively for This
coIumn-How to Put Up crabapples,
Make Rustic Furniture and Put the Cat
Out at Night.
A series of Home Talks will appear
exclusively in this column patterned on
the Home Talks in the Ladies' Home An-
meyer. Every woman should have a. copy
of our Home Talks for she will get
from them many valuable hints and re-
cipes that can be found nowhere else. All
readers are cordially invited to avail
themselves of the correspondence depart
ment and find out what they desire to
know about the problems Of home, such
as "How to Bring Out the Baby, : Best
Ways Of Putting the Cat Out at Night, !"
How to Darn an Old Table Cloth, ETC.,
etc, and other crazy corner lore.
Jennie H.-The art Of putting up crab
apples Is very simple. Take the crab
apples, peel and core them, taking out
worms where possible. Then stand up
in a chair and put them UPON the top
shelf.
Bertha bertha asks for proper diet
for a dyspeptic. Succinctly we should
say food If the invalid will agree with
her food first it will not disagree with her
later. Eat at mealtimes Do not tempt
FrOVlUeHC0 w chewing gum. *
How to Make Crazy Corner-Take an
old red checkered tableclath and drape
it artistically over the sofa SO you cannot
| sit on the sofa. Take a yellow sofacush-
ion and depose it carefully on the sofa
till the cat arches her back at the sight
But you should not wonder that husband
spends his nights at the office.
How to Pare Ripe Tomatoes.-Dip In
boiling water and carefully skin with &
knife. This is "grandrna's method and
has proven an invaluable one wherever
given a fair trial. {. .E.....,
Dat Grits.-Prepare the oats as per book
| then drop in one small handful of sand tt
each pint Of oats. .nss..i sE..
| How to Rest Tired Feet.-Put them ur
! in chair and read the Duchess. i .
! Home Furnishings.-Take an old fou,
barrel. Cut half in two and upholster with
lawn dimity. Cut a little goring to allow
for the tucks. Place in front room, with
one outfit of First Aid to the Injured
els your nose red?' asks the Woman:
Home Companion, ,solicitously. Then i
goes on to say: -. e..".@ .-. ....-
IF the nose is extremely red, in addi
| ton to treating the nerve we massage thu
temples and cheeks using a brisk, Wig
orous movement. This we do in order t.
| take the blood away from the nose
I'm treating the nose be careful neve
| to touch it with water" ta .-- 49,
! We do not know what the Woman
Home Companion does, but it has no
been our custom to treat the nose Their
are other features that seem to appreciat
it more highly. All kinds Of recipes TO
| dissipating the sunset lues in the nasa
organ have been printed, but the best on
we ever saw a Shakopee lady ,obtainet
by sending % cents to a Chicago beaut,
doctor. She wrote back tersely and sue
cinctly: "Chalk it,. ygt
The papers are printing pictures o
Lieutenant General Linevitch that Civ
a battered tomato can appearance an
seem to indicate that the gallant old her
has several times been pushed thru tn
center for thousand yards.
| We regret to note that some Of thi
primary election slang is very coarse. Fo
instance, several politicians gather on tn
curb and the conversation goes on some
thing like this:
-"Well ! see Fetch skinned the Who'll
bunch to a finish ~~.
Yes. Kohler will spit on his grave i
November, tho
mot in a thousand years" -
"Hanke got skinned too.
did you see how Johnson run?'
-"Wouldn't that skin you?" --@@
And SO on. incidentally, it is notice
that Jones, Smith, Brown and JohnsQ
r seemed to be good 1uck names. Whereve
these names appeared on the ticket tn
voter nearly broke his arm getting crosse
marked feminist them. A. J. r.