The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1905-02-23
HINTS TO HoUsEkEEFERs.
A Few Suggestions with Reference =
Matters of General Interest
About the Home.

A diet of young carrots Is sAio " W
exceIlent for the skin and all its ap-
pendages of hair and nails ms Is at
tributed to its anti-scorDutic sal.s. -
oily matter and the iron which exlsts an
all red-colored vegetables and fruits
'If nervous people would oniy orinN
more water they would not De SO ners-
ous." remarked trained nurse the otn-
er day. Nearly every physician VIII
recommend a woman who is sunerlns
from nervous prostration or nervous
exhaustion 10 drink lots OF water De-
tween meals. but many women VINO 90
not come under doctors care "ou,.
feel better and look better II they wouiu
drink. say. a quart Of water In tno
course of the day Water seems 20 pc
nerve food. like good butter. 1t mas
a distinctly soothing effect. when sippen
gradually, as one can test for hersen.
| am not enough of scientist to De aoie
to tell YOU the reasons why 1t does this,
but water slipped slowly ana gfaauahy
has somewhat the same soothing enect
as deep breathing"
Peanuts are not alone good to eat, II
seems. They make pretty winter WIZ
dow gardens. too Many an ingenious
;choolmarm has found this out Tor her.
self. when. casting about for something
new wherewith to illustrate 10 ner
young charges the ways OF nature, sne
placed a few raw peanuts in pot OF
moist earth. with the result that
pretty running vine soon wound itself
about the casing of the window. A
coarse sponge dampened and kept moist
makes capital Judgement for the small
seeds one buys in mixture ct the bird
store. A pine cone banked mp with moss
OF small stones in saucer and sprfnkled
| with mustard seed evolves into charnl-
| ing little pyramid Of yellow howerk
All these devices are we'll worth trying.
| even If there are no children in the fam
lily. The pleasure OF watching the pea
nuts and the canary<seed and the mus
| tard seed doing things IL reats
whether one is six or SO.
Among the useless things that af-
| fict society" said the h0usekeeper, II
would perhaps be impossible to ind
anything more entirely absurd than the
high headboards and footbcardss with
which beds are still made. A bed needs
only footboard and headboard high
enough to support the ptlloussand keep
the coverings where they belong, and
the superfluous materials now put into
such projection not only make the bed
clumsy and hard TO move. but necessl-
tate its being placed not where one
wants it. but with the high headb0ord
against the wall"
| Food odors are not the only OdoFs one
has TO fight against Many WTntu1lE1
and floor coverineshxFe odor1, nofe Of
less unpleasant. This Is IN importan(
lobjection to cheap materials: they an
rarely odorless. You should select youl
furnishings with your nose. Eveo1f TIE
odor is not actually disagreeahso. tha
presence of any odors that are not d1s-
tinct pleasure gives second-rnto IT.
mosphere to q house. wonder Il ~
sense of smell is not deficient or loehlu0
in great many people: this n6cn6
sometimes the only possible solutlon 81
the indifference to the abominable odofx
in their houses. How people can. exco6(
under compulsion, endure houses 80
vaded with the smell OF moth balls ~
gasoline. cannot otherwise uuder1tnnd.
Good Housekeeping.