The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-02-10
Written Especially for The Reformsr

least n day or two a week by the window
Give the palms plenty Of fresh AR,
though il is not desirable that they SHOULD
be subjected. to draughts or TO sudden
changes Of temperature. As spring up,
breaches they should be set out in the
open in the middle Of mild days.
II ia often A matter OF wonder how. some
women can wear such tight collars, bands
or other clothing round their necks. There
h not the slightest doubt that many sc.
we're headache is due 10 this cause, put the
effects may be even more serious IN pro
ducinr actually disordered health. Lon.
don physician cites the case OF patent
who suffered much from neuralgia N the
neck and shoulders, together with enlarge
ment of one knee from rheumatic govt.
The womans circumstances did not allow
Of her going in for any course Of treat
ment, but the doctor advised her 70
loosen her neckband, and this was the sole
alteration made in her mode OF life. In a
fortnight she was better, and after I'VE
weeks felt no more aches and pains ms
is, at any rate, a simple treatment, whicn
any woman can carry out for herself,
without any expense.
Fine china is apt to absorb stains, and
when good soap and hot water will not re-
move a stain wood ashes should be tried.
This is a safe remedy, and stains usually
respond 10 such applications. Salt is also
excellent supposing the wood ashes IAN
When neither remedy works the STAN can
be lightly touched with pure muriatIc
acid, put on with camel's hair brush ~
the china has been properly fired the acid
l. Lar thu treat.
ed in warm water
Black velvet as a facing for the. spring
hats of white hemp and Milan viii be as
popular as ever. Most of the trimming on
these hats is a simple wreath OF flowers.
II you are doing what is commonly
called Eight housekeeping" and have not
even kitchenette, get freless cooker
which can be tucked away almost any
where. The chatting dish on a tray can be
put on the small serving table in corner
when not in use There will be hundred
uses for an alcohol lamp or stove, and 1t
is cleaner, safer, quicker and easier than
an oil stove. One should also have few
covered dishes 1.-THE Japanese ones are
pretty to keep one course hot while
cooking the next. A shirtwaist box is an
excellent thing in which to pack away the
cooking paraphernalia. A low folding table
to be placed on your right and to hold the
chatting dish and the alcohol lamp is quite
essential as you can watch and stir the
bubbling food while you are sitting and
serenely eating. This table can hold the
empty dishes from the first and second
courses, saving much rising and when not
in use may be folded and placed behind
the chest holding the cooking things.
Utilize the sill OF your coolest outside
window for keeping the cream. The salad
may also be prepared and placed there il
it is covered with wet linen cloth.
The clothes that hang in the closet or
wardrobe from day to day without an air
ing, as so many Of our dresses for less
usual occasions do, should be well protect
ed. The best method is to wrap them first
in blue tissue paper-white tissue paper
turns white garments yellow-and then in
a calico bag made little longer and wider
than the dress and provided with a tape
Sleeves, by the way, should
first be stuffed with the tissue paper. To
each drawstring attach a curtain hook and
then stretch strong Irvine or take from
one end OF the closet to the other, mailing
it fast. On this hook the different bags.
A curtain rod will do as well, but will
take up more room. Delicate gowns should
be hung upon a coat hanger before being
incased in this tissue paper. The calico
bag, however, is the most important part
Of the treatment.