The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-31

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disordered stomach; it's so unnecessary
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II Home and |
II Household.
For cleaning water bottles, decanters
and glass Jugs. cut lemon into small
water, and shake Cut potatoes are
also good.
When milk is burned, pour it at once
into pitcher and stand it in basin
OF cold water until it is cool, when
it will be found to be quite free from
the burned smell and taste.
Tie cloth over the mouth of the
blueing bottle and let the blueing strain
through when pouring it into the tub
then you will have no trouble with
spotted or streaked clothing.
To prevent odor from lamps: Soak
new lamp wicks thoroughly in vinegar
and then allow them to become per-
fectly dry before using, and they will
never have an odor when the light is
turned low or blown out.
The best way to clean ribbons is to
sponge first with ammonia and water,
then press with a heavy iron, or rather
draw the ribbon from under the iron
instead of passing the latter over it,
says the Washington Herald. A sheet of
tissue paper should be slipped between
the iron and the ribbon. This will de-
cidedly freshen ribbon that is slightly
soiled or rumpled.
Use for Worn Silk Gloves.
Oftentimes wooden gloves chap the
hands in winter. Save worn silk ones
from the summer and use them as a
lining for the wooden ones. just tack
them in place with small stitches near
the finger tips,
II one is troubled with cold hands,
this also adds greatly to the warmth
Of the gloves.
Children's wooden mittens may be I
lined with discarded silk or Isle hose. y
Lay the mitten on a paper and trace a s
pattern, allowing for all seams After $
scanning the lining, tack in the mitten, q
about the wrist.
Virtues of Turpentine. +
After housekeeper fully realizes the !.
worth of turpentine in the household, :
he is never willing to be without :
upply of it. 1t gives quick relief to :
,urns, it is an excellent application for !,
ornss it is good for rheumatism and sore ?
hroats, and it is the quickest remedy >
or commissions or fits. =
Then it is a sure preventive against y
moths by just dropping a triae in the :. :,
ottom of drawers, chests. and cup =
cards; it will render the garments Sc =
ure from injury during the summer. 1t "
Sil keep ants and bugs from closets and =
tore rooms by putting a few drops in = =
he corners and upon the shelves; it is
ure destruction to bed bugs and will -
ffectually drive them away from their :
aunts if applied to all the joints of :;
he bedstead in spring cleaning time, =
nd injuries neither furniture nor cloth y, ~
~. A spoonful of it added to a pail
+ warm water is excellent for cleaning
amt. A little in suds, washing DAYS, =
CITIZENS laundry labor. r
Those Spring Hats.
Some of the trimming, or, more cor
city speaking, possibly, the only trim
ing, on many of the women's hats this M
,ring resembles Charles Dana Gibson's haa
ernal question. Sometimes the ques- Ct
on is in the front, sometimes pushed to G
lie rear. and sometimes il is only a III
de question, but it is almost always d,
ere somewhere. These questions are in
various hues. There are Alice's blue III
estion, the cardinal question, the KEEL 81,
Y Green question, etc. OF course not mr.
the hats are questionable, not by any
cans. Another fRvorite is what has
en- called the rudder style, the trim
ing of which, as the name implies, is r
Mined to the stern of the hat and
fits with the wind. unless securely |
Id in place. And il might be said /
re that many of the hats will be used
the practically inclined as weather
licators the coming season. For in /
lnee. standing with your face to the L
4 if the trimming veers to the lar II
ard. take umbrella and rubbers, if to
, starboard take jacket, if il remains II
right alPs well and proceed as intend II
Perhaps the very "chicest" thing m III
Is this season is a simple, unassuming III
air. about the crown of which in some L
Il 1.-THE exact location "a the trimming,
the way, appears immsterial this
ingl is placed a short upright tooth
K continuance, on two sides of which
arranged a graceful row of cat whis- tina
:, the number varying from eight to ISIS
f. The more expensive Of this style of wol
grafton is, Of course, taken from the rigl
CORA or Persian type of cat, though
ordinary house. barn, OF even the So Yo,
led alley cat has ben called upon TO 10
rifce whiskers to this form Of my viii
Us hat trimming, and il Is said that laid
difference could not be determined the
ept by a first class expert on cat AM
skers. II will be seen that the day prir
the long weeping willow i gone, the n
Y willow in the millinery shop to- Is
being the pussy willow.
his BY no means completes the list
best sellers" but il may serve to