The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-25

for the low, round, square or V neck.
For the door lock that will not work.
nothing is better than a few drops Of
coal oil, says contributor to Commoner.
If one application is not enough, try
another Sometimes, one cannot oil the
lock because of its being inside the wood
OF the door. If you are mechanic enough
to take this lock out, it is very easily
done, and can then be readily oiled and
replaced.
To Relieve Headaches.
| Do not drug yourself for headaches,
especially if the condition be more or
| less chronic. Most so-called headache
cures are poison in the system and weak
en- the heart Take no patent medicine
without consulting your doctor and do
not get dependent even on his prescrip-
tions.
A supreme aperient will often give re.
lief; so will cup of hot soda water or
hot salt water Outward applications
are helpful. Cloths kept in witch hazel,
ice caps, hot foot bath--with mustard
plaster, headache cologne or saturating
the scalp with cologne at the first APP
proach Of the trouble are not half so
harmful as drugs, says the Boston Her.
aid
One woman has learned to control bad
headaches by having the muscles of the
neck well massaged at the first symptom.
MANY a headache is due to defective CIR
culation.
If the headaches are nervous ones the
only sure cure is rest, quiet and chance
for the overworked nerves to become nor
NAL. The quicker you give in to this
type of headache the quicker you will be
well. Trying to keep up is folly.
If your headache is from the stom-
ach, there is no better cure than a liver
pill, followed by day of fasting. The
digestive tract, oyerworked, quickly re-
venges itself on the head and brain that
will not give it chance to rest.
Whatever the cause of the headache, 10
may be relieved by bathing the eyes
with very hot water at frequent inter-
walls.
Laundering a Shirtwaist.
A clean hot iron, box of the sort of
starch which does not need cooking, soap
which is strong enough to remove CRIME.
two balls of bluing tied in square of
canton flannel and plenty of warm wa
ter. these are the things needed by the
girl who would launder her own shirt
waists. If she works carefully she can
soon prove herself good laundress, and
save money and torn cloth besides.
1t is good plan to soak the soled
clothes for 10 to II hours before washing
them. This soaking process cannot hurt
even the finest lingerie blouse and
clothes thus treated are much more
easily and quickly washed. They should
be well soaked and put into warm water.
4 teaspoonful of powdered borax or
able spoonful of household ammonia to
/ basin of water will whiten the clothes,
writes contributor to the New York
sun.
The shirtwaists might be soaked IN
his way over night. The next morning
hey should be rubbed between the
lands, or in one of the small rubbing
'oards about a foot long, that come for
his sort OF laundry work, in fresh, warm
Dap suds. Five minutes will serve to
make them perfectly clean if soaked over
light.
They should then be thoroughly
insed in warm water and blued. To
lake the bluing water shake bag of
all blue about in basin of clear luke.
arm water until the hand when il is
ED about three inches below the surface
the water looks skyblue. There is 10
anger OF streaky bluing water if the
lue ball is always kept in bit of can
On flannel.
Three or four shrtwaists could be put
trough this soaping and rinsing and
uing process in Is minutes at the most.
hey will then have the whole day to
".
In the evening the waists should he
arched with uncooked starch and part
dried The amount of starch needed
i'll depend on the weight of the waists
ID the degree of stiffness desired. Thin
II waists do not need so much starch as
ayier ones.
After the waists are starched they can
hung in front of a fire or near radi-
or so that they will dry quickly. When
ey are about as dry as sprinkled
,thes roll them in little packages and
gin ironing.
Iron the sleeves first with a smooth,
an iron. Wax, paraffin, bit of can
, and salt will clean and polish the
rface Of the iron.
Iron slowly, and If the iron is too hot
it cool to the right temperature. II
chance the waist is scorched. put it
de until the next day, when il should
wet and exposed 10 the sun. This
moves the seoreh mark.
After the sleeves are pressed iron the
{ of the waist, and at the end 90 over
whole waist. sleeves and all. again,
ssing out the wrinkles. Put the
ned waist on hanger and dry il
before putting it.away.