The National tribune., 1907-05-30


her to read when the restless question
ing little ones have worn her patience
threadbare. 1t said: Every question
asked by a child's mind is a reaching
out toward the soul of things, and every
question rightly answered, and every
law understood, stimulates the growth
Of the child's mind toward the world
around it."
/ Watch your children and DO not let
them sit or stand in a constrained posi-
ton. An erect carriage is one of the
greatest beauties of a hume. Being, and
the time to acquire it is in youth before
the fault becomes a settled one. 1t is
folly to wait till a child is 10 or a dozen
years old, and then begin pecking and
| Tuning because it has acquired bad
/ habits of standing and walking. If you
had been attending to your business
properly it would never have needed the
/ correction.
| Gilt frames may be cleaned by simply
washing with small sponge wet with
hot spirits of wine or oil of turpentine,
not too wet, but sufficiently to take off
the dirt and fiymarks. They should not
afterward be wiped, but should be left
to dry of themselves
The Berlin Medical Society recon-
mends the following compound for puri-
| flying the atmosphere of the sick room
"Oil Of rosemary, lavender and thyme,
in the proportion of 10. two and a half,
and two and a half parts, respectively,
are mkt with water and nitric acid in
the proportion of 30 to one and half.
The bottle should be shaken before US
| ing, ard a sponge saturated in the COM
pound and left to diffuse by evapora-
ton" This compound is said to possess
extraordinary properties in controlling
odors and effluvia.
| 1t is stated that consumption Is most
liable TO pass from father to daughter
and from mother to son. Life insur-
ance companies are guided by this rule
and if parents who are rearing fam
| lily Of children know of any consump-
| tive traits in either side and would
watch their children they might be able
to nip such a direful disease in its in
| cipienoy.
Rubber jewelry and brooches. hair
| pins and such articles as have faded
can be restored to their pristine black
| by rubbing them with a paste made of
rottenstone and sweet oil.
If your neighbor is not lovable YOU
need not love him, but you can do him
| good all the same, should you find an
opportunity.
Cotton and wool are so MKT together
! in fabrics pretending to be all wool that
purchasers should be on their guard.
good test is to separate the warp and
wool and hold them in the fame. The
pure wool becomes 4 shapeless ash and
is extinguished directly it is removed
from the flame. Cotton or linen thread,
however. burns after removal from the
flame. and its form is plainly distin-
guishable in the ash. Thread made of
a mixture of wool and cotton burns
irreSulariy. If you are not quite sure
of the quality Of the fabric, take a
sample of it home and test it.
Those thrifty fousekeepers who make
their own soap for kitchen use will find
1t greatly to their advantage to prepare
the fat that is to be so used in the fol-
lowing manner: No matter how small
the quantity of tallow and suet, it can
be clarified and made fit for use. Even
if the grease in the pan seems burned,
you can use it. AS soon as you take
the pan from the stove, after lifting
the meat out, whether it is boiled, baked
or fried, pour a quart or more boiling
water into the pan and set it on the
hot stove to boil up. Then set it where
it will cool, and when the fat has hard
ened On the top of the water you can
lift the cake right off. Sometimes there
will be bits of the meat and fragments
of the vegetables clinging to it. Put it
into another pan, and put more hot
water IN it and let it boil up; then cool
as before. 1t will generally come out
clear the last time. Put it away in a
stone jar or tin bucket in cool place
till You have collected enough. Some
careful housewives never buy an ounce
of kitchen soap. but make it all. 1t has
another advantage. in that it is per-
fectly pure, and most of, the soap that
one buys is not. By using borax and a
little perfumery you can make an eX-|
cellent toilet soap.
If you have an old muslin dress that
is perfectly good, but faded, boil it in
n strong sal soda water. and then put
on the grass and keep it dampened for
4 few days. 1t will bleach out white
and BE- as nice as ever Calicoes, lawns
and mulls can all be bleached this way
II simply detest housekeeping. and l
don't intend to wear my life out baking
and broiling.' That was the remarka BILE
utterance of a few months old wife.
who has recently married a clerk in
one OF the Departments on Il salary of
$1,000 year. Anybody with half a
mind can easily picture the probable
outcome of that marriage, unless the
man is saint, and he isn't. No man
who would marry such foolish woman
could have sense enough to be saint.
1t is disgusting to hear married wo-
man say that household duties are dis
tasteful to her. They may be uninter-
esting, for most of the necessary occu-
patioas of life bore us. unless we take
an abiding interest in them; according
y. as we do this, they become bearabIe.
even If they are not agreeable, and when
such tasks are duties from which We
cannot escape, and which we are bound
TO perform, it is surely the part of wis
dom 10 try to render them as little dis
tasteful as possible. Under most cir
cumstanceS and at the best of times
housekeeping is a disagreeable occu-
patton. but as it is impossible for one
in moderate circumstances to evade it,
the hest plan is to exact from it every
atom of interest which it is capable of
yielding. 1t is surely quite possible for
any woman of average intelligence to
become, after a few months of expert
ence, a perfectly capable housekeeper.
even il she is not born one. And
ii She fails to do so, il is safe to wager
that her home is not well kept, and her
husband is uncomfortable in it, if not
unhappy. A woman has no right to con-
slider only herself in the matter She
must remember that the comfort of the
whole house depends upon her cheerful
performance of her domestic duties. I'll
the man of the house does his duty in
the necessary wherewithal to supply the
needs of the household. her duty and