Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-05-25
HINTS TO HoUsEKEEPERS.
a Few Suggestions with Reference to
Matters of General Interest
About the Home.

A diet Of young carrots Is said to be
excellent for the skin and all it's ap-
pendages of hair and nails. This is at
tributed to It's anti-scorbutic salts, It's
oily matter and the iron which exists in
all red-colored vegetables and fruits.
"If nervous people would only drink
more water they would not be so nerv-
ous," remarked a trained nurse the 9TH
er day Nearly every physician will
recommend a woman who Is suffering
from nervous prostration or nervous
exhaustion to drink lots Of water be-
tween meals, but many women who GO
not come under a doctors care would
feel better and look better if they would
drink, say, a quart of water in the
course of the day. Water seems to be a
nerve food, like good butter. 1t has
distinctly soothing effect. when slipped
gradually. as one can test for herself.
I am not enough Of a scientist to be able
to tell you the reasons why it does this,
but water slipped slowly and gradually
has somewhat the same soothing effect
as deep breathing"
Peanuts are not alone good to eat, 1t
seems. They make pretty winter win
dow gardens, too. Many an ingenious
echoolmarm has found this out for her
self. when, casting about for something
new wherewith to illustrate to her
young charges the ways Of nature, she
placed few raw peanuts in a pot OF
moist earth. with the result that
pretty running vine soon wound itself
about the casing Of the window. A
coarsa o. -npe dampened and kept moist
make 2 capital Judgement for the small
seeds one bugs in mixture at the bird
stors. ! pire core banked up with moss
ors,.-cil -turos ii a saucer and sprinkled
witt -crs,4fG seed evolves into charms
Ing little IJrar''d of yellow flowers,
All lhcse devices are we'll worth trying,
even if th,re ar 70 children in the fam=
lily. The pleasure of watching the pea
nuts and the canary seed and the mus
tard seed doing things" is real,
Wu6Iucl Ou6 10 StA VI w.
Among the useless things that af-
fict society,"" said the housekeeper, "!t
would perhaps be impossible to find
anything more entirely absurd than the
high headboards and footbOards with
which beds are still made. A bed needs
only footboard and headboard high
enough to support the pillows and keep
the coverings where they belong, and
the superfuous materials now put into
such projection not only make the bed
clumsy and hard to move, but necessi-
tate its being placed not where one
wants it, but with the high headboard
against the wall"
Food odors are not the only odors one
has to fight against. Many furnishings
and floor coverings have odors, more or
less unpleasant. This Is an important
objection to cheap materials; they arc
rarely odorless. You should select your
furnishings with your nose. Even if the
odor is not actually disagreeable, tho
presence of any odors that are not dis
tinct pleasure gives second-rate at
mosphere to a house. wonder If the
sense of smell is not deficient or lacking
in a great many people; this seems
sometimes the only possible solution of
the indifference to the abominable odors +
IN their houses How people can, except
under compulsion, endure houses per-
vaded with the smell of moth balls or
gasoline, cannot otherwise understand !
Good Housekeeping