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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
A Remedy for Fleas.

cannot but appreciate the benefits
that / have received from your column.
although 1 have never asked anything
through 1t. However, / desire to ask
II there IS any disinfectant or drug that
would be an aid in getting rid of heas.
We are troubled considerably with
them. and would be very grateful for
a remedy.
! would say that I do not think many
or your readers know how TO keep salt
dry In the salt cellar. If little corn
starch were used they would find that
that trouble would be remedied
BUSY HOUSEWIFE buffalo, ". W
Pennyroyal gathered green and strew-
Ell .hickly over the floor and under beds
gathered up when dry. and burned. will
drive away fleas. OH of pennyroyaI
may be used by those who cannot get
the s-een herb. An ounce stirred into
a gallon OF boiling water. makes a wash
which should be applied. scalding hot
TO bedsteads and cracks I'm and around
the flooring.
cannot certify TO the efficiency of
the cornstarch in preventing salt from
caking in damp weather.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

l notice under the above heading that
one of your correspondents is desircus
Of obtaining a recipe for shrinking
which was published in your corner
some time ago. / cut out the said re-
eipe at the time. and now take pleasure
in inclcsing 1t for the benefit of your
correspondent.
Here IS the clipping:
Il prepared a hot. 'sudsy' water with
soap powder; put in the fiannels and let
them soak couple of hours: by that
time the water was cold
Il added more hot water and rubbed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

housewife. ant-like, is preparing for
winter, / will send my recipe for keep
ing eggs Make a solution of one quart
of salt and one quart of lime measured
after II is thoroughly slaked), two gal
Ions of hot water. Mix in a large YES
sci and set to cool; drain off the solu-
ton and put into an earthenwars lar
Examine each egg carefully, for if one
is cracked or impure IL will ruin all
Test each egg by placing il in n vessel
of fresh water. If II remains on the bot
tom of the vessel you put il in the solu-
ton II II floats at all. IL is fit for i'm
mediate use alone. When the eggs reach
within a few inches of the top of the
solution. add more liquid. Always keep
the eggs well covered. / use a ffve-gal-
lon jar and keep the eggs until April
The lime renders the shell very thin,
so care must be taken in removing the
eggs for use So much of the solution
is absorbed by the egg often il is diff
cult to separate the white from the yolk.
But few strokes are necessary to beat
the whites perfectly stiff.
MRS. ]. H. Nice. (Chicago).
Your services in our behalf should be
Iequited by something better than a
regretful. II know of no quick way of
making bouillon." I can return no
other answer. You may expedite the
process by soaking the chopped meat IN
cold water for an hour before setting it
over fire. Can any wiser housemother
help our feliow-member?
The recipe for eggless cake will be
found In another column.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

ERE is an extract from the let
IL ter Of a sixteen-year-old girl in
boarding school to her mother:
Everything is going very
smoothly but this old town Is awfully
slow. The other night Florence Nc
Carly found some chocolate-coated al
monds In a little 2-cent shop in Main
street. and she fairly few back TO school
with them We had them In May
Smiths room, and IT was terribly ex-
citing. Really, mother. We cant get
anything here. ! certainly did laugh at
Ray Halsted last Latin period. She had
a magazine in her desk. which
she borrowed from one of the
first-year girls. think 1t was three
months old. Miss White captured her
magazine, and sent Ray TO her room
Raw went with her nose In the air. As
she passed me. l heard her say For
that old magazine! This is a progressive
town!
In many cases IL Is like going TO
prison for a young girl to leave home
for some nine months in boarding school.
Though the school is eXcellently equip
ped and the girls are comfortable and
chummy together. the school is often
situated in some sleepy, old town, away
in the hills. In this case the home
box is more precious than gold or sill
yer. What good would gold or silver
do II the girls had II? No place what
ever 10 spend it, The box from home
is an old institution. but even so. there
are many home folks who don't think
about it. Few and far between are the
schools that bar its entrance. II the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
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yet the MISTRESS but always She. ,
And how We would be made like bond-
slaves and the offscouring OF the earth
TX we weren't on the lookout all the
time And how. then. She in one home
was stingy, and in another hot-temper-
ed, and in another She was driver
and all that; and how necessary it was
Tor us TO stand by one another, and
deal more of that same sort. Every
one had her story to tells and when
they asked for mine / was ashamed to
say 1 had no complaint TO make. I've
been called mean-spirited many a time
because l said l was comfortable and
had a good employer.
Like a Union.
Its the same thing as the union and
the strikes, and the girl that don't
side with the rest is looked down
upon as a sort OF traItor-doa't you
see? And. from what L can hear of
mems union meetings, it's the bosses
faults that are talked about, and not
what they do that is just and right.
There amt so much difference between
mems ways and womens WAYS as folks
are apt TO think. It's all human ma
ture"
Bridget-Thekla's visit Is cpportune.
this being the season when maids are
on the lookout for places for the win
ter and mistresses are anxious to set
their households in order before holt
day work begins
What my visitor has to say as to the
ruadam's" part in making domestic sery-
ice 'vexed question will he told
next week
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Two Rescues.

% May I ask a favor. l send Won a
piece of my dress. The waist is lined
With blue cambria and there is a sonar
are blue lining for skirt. There are
tnree narrow ruffies on the bottom of
skirt, with narrow baby-blue velvet
RIBBON on the edge. The waist is also
trimmed with the ribbon. Is there any
way TO clean and not wash IL?
(2t j have some tapestry curtains
olive green and rose Where they were
draped they got soiled by heads hitting
against them. cleaned them with gaso-
lene and II took out the color. How
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

Fifty-eight dollars a month is a little
less than 500 a year, less than SIS
week. a trifie under 81 a day. This sum
must cover rent. clothing. fuel, food
and -incidentals'-the last item ALWAYS
being an unknown quantity, but inyari-
bly, more formidable than is counted
upon by the 1ainitiated
Yesi two people can live upon It-in
one room. eatiny meat but twice a week
and the bride doing all her own work.
including washing and ironing. Such
things are done in tenement districts
even In our large cities. But u Is a
hand-to-hand fight for a bare subsist-
ence-only possible for the young and
strong. with a goodly supply OF clothing
to begin with.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

them by hand until clean, adding a little
more of the soap powder then 1insed
them in clear hot water. and dried by a
hot fire.. or over a register. They came
out much softer. and continuing the pro-
cess from week to week the fibers grad
ually loosened up and the garments be-
came almost as large as at first
1 send that in answer TO the appeal of
Worried Mother" A child here was
left very deaf by measles. Her father
took her to a specialist, who taught her
TO hold her nose and blow her breath
through her ears This relieved her In
less than two weeks They did not find
1t necessary to- use any medicine
MRS G. fGeOrgial
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Sherry Sponge PUDDING.

Butter a pie dish and put into it tyo
sponge cakes and one wineglassful Ar
three or four Jumps of sugar then IN IN
TWO eggs up with 1t; when the wine L
absorbed pour the custard over tt,
cakes and bake in slow oven. whe1
set turn the pudding out onto q dish :
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Grandmother's Float.

Let one quart new milk come tn tbs
oolling point; have ready the yoiks ~
TWO eggs, well beaten, tand one ma =
half tablespOonfuls cornstarch Raat
together with cold milk; when the bojiN
ing milk is ready pour in this Inixtrra
Sweeten and favor TO taste Bear tbo
whites OF the eggs. put in a deen f,ish
and pour the custard over IL The Whit.
should be Favored a ltua
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
To Preserve Eggs.

Can you give me a recipe for bouillon
that can be quickly made? All l have
require so much time
Some months ago one of our brothers,
'B. b." from Minneapolis, asked for a
cake without eggs. I do not recall
seeing a cake without eggs. / do not
recall seeing an answer to this appeal
a few days ago / found in my cook
book such a recipe, and determined 10
AS this is the season when the good
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Peach Marmalade

Pare the peaches and cut small
weigh and allow three-fourths OF .
pound or sugar, to each pound OF fr,,;f
Moisten the sugar with a cupfui cf
water, stir il until dissolved, let IN hosi
ana SKIM Then put in the peaches and
cook very slowly for an hour. or mill
rlcn ana thick Place an asbestos mat
peaches are cooking ard sir frnn,1e-,t -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Housemothers in Weekly Conference With Marion Harand

can I restore It? L hope / have not
worn your patience to a thread.
ID. o. c. (Wyoming).
The gown could be cleaned with flour
and salt, or with block magnesia, or
with powdered fullers earth-any one
of which should be well rubbed into the
stuff and left in for a week.
But-those ruffies and rows of velvet
ribbon! Were / in your place / should
rip them off and clean them separately.
| have never heard of gasolene fading
anything. II takes out dirt. but not
color. You might dip a corner of one
curtain in alum water, made strong
with ammonia, and see II the color will
return, even partially
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
"PrettY Way of Hemminp.

The other day a neighbor came in with
dozen table napkins. asking me to hem
them my pretty way as she said.
While doing so it occurred to me that IL
might act as a suggestion to some of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
fOR THE TABLE.
A Toast

Here's to the hour he found his cou,asa.
To the girl who won his heart
With little look OF sweetness
And a dainty Cupid dart.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

AS / said week or two ago a tolera-
BIZ good vinegar may be made Of weak
green tea. Sweetened and set i'm a warm
place to ferment. But think of living
in a country that produces neither app
pies nor grapesi You have our warmest
sympathy under the deprivation. | am
told that cactus figs, crushed. turn 10
vinegar II left in the sun You can
surely get these
VIII some of our excellent soapmakers
answer the second request?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Cost of Living.

Some day-when It's my tsrn-won't
you write an article on how much a
man should earn to marry and go to
housekeeping? Should he attempt 1t
with $50 month in a large city?
h. l.. E. ALLENTOWN, PAD
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Rust Stains.

Kindly tell me through your valuable
columns how TO take rust stains out OF
a child's white dress.
MRS. Z. II. OBJ. Pittsburg, Pa.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Beets and Dahlias.

1 notice a request for directions for
canning beets without vinegar / have
put them up successfully for several
years in the following manner:
Cook as usual. selecting as young and
tender beets as possible When tender
rub the skins off and put in cans. cut
ting only as much al is necessary to get
the beets into the cans. Eli the cans
brimful with beets, then to overlooking
with boiling water and screw on the
cover slightly.
l should like to ask for advice in my
turn. My dahlias grow fine and large
and bud freely. but the buds drop off
so that have not had a single blossom.
can discover no vermin What can /
do for them?
MRS. G. (Sinclairville. n. ".
My English gardener TO whom l have
referred the dahlia dilemma thinks YOUR
plants have not sunshine enough TO
bring the blossoms to perfection Dab
las, he says, need a pile of sunlight {"
Tney grow tall and rank in the shade
but will not flower freely. Perhaps
some horticulturist may suggest some
thing else.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

Soak all night in sour buttermilk;
next day wash in pure water, dry and
wet the spots with lemon juice and lay
lin the sun all day. Throw into pure
water at night and soak twelve hours.
Wash, then, I'm the usual way.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Vinegar Without the Apples.

From the wilds of Mexico a reader
would request that you send a recipe
for making white vinegar. There are
no apples or grapes here. Also a re-
c;pe for making good grade Of scent
ed toilet soap.
MRS. D. s (Mexicol
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

your many constituents. who need 20
eke out a slender income, If 1 spoke of it.
II seems to me many who buy a good
quality of table linen would be willing 10
pay say IS cents a dozen for having
napkins hemmed. or 81 for the largest
size. They are much dantier hemmed
by hand. but many have no time to
spare for it. Perhaps the linen depart
call their patrons attention to II. il
some one left cards with name and adj
Gress There might also be work for
some one to do who knew how to wash
blankets we'll "A professional blanket
washer" L wish / knew one now.
know how myself. but am not strong
enough. In Scotland We used to trample
them with our feet
/ enjoy your column very much. 1t
seems to be doing a helpful work in this
sin-sick world. While Ii seems bright
to me, your correspondence reveals much
sadness everywhere and one of the
things which seems so sad is the need
livelihood. Some OF them cannot leave
home Hence the reason of my send
ing along this suggestion.
]. S. S. s(Clinton. Mass.)
Every good hOusekeeper who has an
eye to what you call pretty ways,
hems her napkins and tablecloths. or
has them hemmed by hand. This is so
well known that the sight Of a machine
hem upon napery is positive onenSe
70 the eye Your suggestion that some
of your many constituents who need to
exc out a slender income" might avail
themselves of this housewifely prejudice
and offer to do neat hemming for those
who have not the time to undertake it
themselves is excellent. but not new
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

wonderful that so many of us never fit
comfortably into our places?'
Don't say us i interrupted TO
say. Il am sure you fit into yours"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15
Restoring Shrunken Flannels.

The rest of this letter must lie over
ntil next week for lack of room.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-15

ERE is an extract from the let
u ter OF a sixteen-year-old girl in
boarding school to her mother:
Everything is going very
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-06-14
WILL FACE TO THE SOUTH.

There was recently unveiled in For
est park. Memphis, Tennessee. a
bronze statue of General N. B. For
rest. the "Wizzard of the Saddle" one
of the great cavalry leaders of the
south during the civil war. When
the work was completed it was dis
covered that horse and rider faced
to the south, thereat great indignation
arose among some of his old follow.
ers, who claimed that the intrepid
leader never turned his back to the
enemy" The committee which had
the eerction of the monument in
charge heard the protest. but said
nothing until the date of the unveil
ing, when all was satisfactorily ex
planned.
"The placing of the statue facing to
ward the south was not the result
of an accident" said member OF
the committee Its position is the
result of much discussion.
True, General Forrest never turn
ed his back on the enemy while IN
battle. But the war is over now and
General Forrest is dead. Sectional
strife is buried. as was evidenced when
the call for troops was made during
the Spanish war.
What could be more appropriate
than the placing of the statue so tha'
our general and leader should face TO
wari his beloved southland?
The above is but another evidence
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-06-14
WILL BOOST FERGUS COUNTY,.

The large attendance at the meet
ing of the Business Mems associa-
ton, Monday evening, to take some
action relative to the advertising Of
the resources of Fergus county was
most encouraging. President Harlow
of the Montana railroad was present
and addressed the meeting. The in
terest taken by him and the broad
and liberal spirit which he manifested
in furthering the movement left no
doubt as to the success that will
crown our efforts.
While it is too late 10 accomplish
all that is desired this season, prelim-
mary steps will be taken at once to
thoroughly advertise the resources and
advantages offered in Fergus coun-
ty to settlers seeking homes in Mon
tana. To that end committee was
appointed to solicit funds to secure
the proper kind Of literature and the
chairman was empowered to appoint
delegates to attend the meeting to
be held in Billings on the oath inst.
This state is awakening to the fact
that it has let its opportunities slip
by in the past and is now going to
make an effort to secure some of the
settlers who yearly pass through our
state to less desirable regions on the
coast. Surely, no part of Montana
can surpass Fergus county IN the adj
vantages and opportunities offered set
tiers, and there is no reason why
this fact should not be made known
by resort to all legitimate methods
The movement should be pushed
along
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-06-14

Clarence B. Young, the Bearmouth
train robber has been sentenced to
serve a term of fifty years at hard
labor in the state penitentiary. If he
lives out his time and is not pardoned
he will be eighty years old when he
'retireS" from that institution. He
says it was while drinking one day
that he took the notion that he could
successfully hold up a train Here
is a temperance lesson for young men.
In the eXuberance of the flowing bowl
Young thought of a scheme to get
rich quick. With a booZe-born mag
nation he became the composite of
the Younger and James boys, Black
Bart, Slade and all of the bad men
, Of the past. He sailed forth at once
all by his lonesome to carry his de.
sign into execution. He failed mis-
erably, as green hand could expect
to, and now he must spend the re-
mainder of his years in prison. Young
is not such a bad fellow. He did not
want to take human life. Had he
been more desperate and experienced
he would have succeeded in his un
dertaking. He was weak in his belfry
The victim of drink and bad assoca
tons, undoubtedly. Young man, avoit
both.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-06-14
ABOUT BACKWARD PUPILS.

Helena Independent: These are
the days when the star pupils of all
the schools are pluming themselves
upon their superiority over duller
comrades. Teachers are lavishing
praise and premiums upon the pre-
cocious students who lead in their
classes. Some of the most earnest
and yet most backward of the boys
and girls are wincing under the real
ization of their own mental inferiority
or inaptitude. Nor is 1t likely that
the smart scholars" are likely to per-
nit their companions to remain in ig-
norance of the disadvantages of be-
ing slow of wit, sluggish of temper or
dull of fancy.
1t is not the purpose of this editor
ial to derogate the position of the
smart students either in the esti-
nation of the teachers or in their own.
But it is the experience of many star
scholar to see the dullard of school
days surpass him in every practical
success of later life. Who does not
remember the precocious star of the
classroom who became the Smart
Alecll' of later life? Who does not
remember the Ounce" of the old
school days who developed into the
| firm, gracious, modest, successful
| man?
Let 1.-The slow scholar be not cast
down. The triumphs of school days
are no indication of success in life.
Many of the most brilliant men and
women in all history wore the Ounce
cap in the classroom. Many pre-
maturely developed mind, like the
bloom of early spring, fades before
the first hot wind of summer while
the homelier, sturdier flower but
thrives upon the furnace heat of Aug
ust and achieves it's perfect maturity
in the cold, gray days Of age.
The meretricious brilliancy of quick
memories, ready adaptability, instinct
i've apprehension, may or may not be
signs of firmly founded and sequen
tial intellect. But it is certain tha
the character of the child is of more
, importance than it's book learning
it is sure that loyalty, diligence, pa
thence and honesty are qualities tina
do more honor to the backward pupi
than all the prizes, honors, medals
; and diplomas can confer upon thu
star pupil" who lacks them.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-06-14

scale, native beef producers continue
their unloading operations in order to
get out of the way of western COM
petition, say Sinclair, Gillett & & Co,
live stock commission merchants Of
Chicago, in a special letter to the
Argus, and they advise as follows:
Doubt as to the probable status
of the coming range cattle market is
not much in evidence in stock yards
circles. Everybody expects to see a
scarcity of dry feed beeves and a
high level of prices for good western
has grown tired of obeying the stere-
back" as it is tantamOunt to a plea
to curtail production-an impossible
feat, and is cashing in it's crop in
large numbers, which is cleaning out
corn belt feed lots at lively rate.
We believe that western cattle grow
ers will have basis of prices on
which they can ship freely as fast as
cattle are ready FOR the butcher, with
out fear of colliGing with misfortune
We sold medium grassy native
steers weighing 1920 to 1900 pounds
at $4.90@5.25, and common light ma
tive green goods at $4.45@4.75 on last
weeks market. We pilored number
of grassy COWS over the scales at
$3.25@3.60, and grassy bulls at $3.40
@3.S5 weighing around 900 to 1000
pounds.
Our superb bureau of range cat
tie market information and advice is
at the service of the western coun-
try, and we invite correspondence on
any and all matters pertaining to
the coming western season.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-06-14
THE DANGEROUS pANDELloN.

One of these days the state govern
ment of Wisconsin will be compelled
to take notice of the yellow peril
of the dandelion. The loss to some
counties by the spread of this pest
is yearly more than all the taxes rails.
ed for state, county, town, municipal
and school purposes. There are hun.
dreds of thousands of acres of mead
ows that would be good for two tons
of hay to the acre that will not yield
half ton to the acre this year, be-
cause the grass is choked out by dan
delions. This means a loss in the
counties where the crop is most valu
able, of SIS to the acre, and of $780,.
600 on 100000 acres. Every crop OF
dandelions that is allowed to go to
seed. plants thousands of acres. here
tofore unaffected. and plants every at
fected acre more quickly for next
year.